Re: FLASH: getting a SQL response into flash

[John Dowdell]

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







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