Re: FLASH: getting a SQL response into flash

[Helen Triolo]

John Dowdell wrote:

> 

> At 1:17 PM 2/29/0, Helen Triolo wrote:

> > I'm anxious to hear what Macromedia says in regards to

> > your question about limitations on passing long strings.

> 

> I'm not sure what the question was (long threads under multiple names are

> harder to parse), but in case it's something like "Will all browsers handle

> long URLs identically?" then no, they won't... different browsers have

> different limits on URLs they support. Some are happy with over 200

> characters in an URL, but others will balk at half that.

> 

> (Flash relies upon the browser's net connections... this is how we can do

> Secure Socket Layer encryption, for example, by just asking the browser if

> it can do it.)

> 

> The rule-of-thumb is that if the total data is less than 100 characters or

> so then it's generally safe to append it to an URL. For longer upstream

> data transferrals, though, you'd want to use a POST statement so you're not

> running into URL length limits.

> 

> jd

> 


Thanks for the response, John.  The original question (sorry, I appended

this comment to a different thread) was under Neal Cabage's thread

"FLASH: Limitations of QueryString into Flash," and it pertained to

passing data from a database (result of a query) back to Flash.  This is

his most recent posting on the subject:

----

As stated, Load Variables would crash if given to much text.  Well,

here's

what I found.  It's a limitation only with Explorer and the limitation

is

*exactly* 2056 chars.  Flash can actually recieve more than that ... but

then it craps out if it does.  Solution?!?!?  Well, a colleague

suggested

that I set the variable containing the long strings of text = "" prior

to

re-loading more info via queryString.  Sure enough - it worked!  So, if

you

ever have the same problem - that's your solution.  Just reset the

variable

prior to reloading more info via load variables.

--------

Does that sound right?  I'm interested to know because I'd like to pass

back more than the 5 variables I'm now passing at once from my database

application, but I don't know how many I can realistically expect to

pass. They are not fixed length either, as one of the fields is a memo

field.  Any info on this would be useful.


Regards,

Helen

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