[Zope] Bad request

[Thomas B. Passin]

[Konstantinos Margaritis]

> I seem to be having a problem inserting big text data into postgresql
> using a z sql method.
> When the text is bigger than some size (I will try to find if there is a
> specific size) then the text is not inserted into the db, but instead it
> produces a Bad request error on the next fields that would otherwise would
> be inserted. In the error screen, I can't help but note that the URL
> passed to the sql method is HUGE... is there a way that this might be this
> problem? This is tested on both Konqueror and IE 5 & 5.5. Can I pass
> variables through some other way rather than the URL?
> Mind you the text is not western latin but greek, and in the URL it is
> replaced by %XX characters, which in reality triples the size of the URL.

You could POST the form (by default an html form uses the GET method).  If
you do, you may have problems with Netscape.  Netscape and Zope don't always
work right together when you use POST.  I don't know  which one is the
problem, or if it's a mutual thing somehow.

Cheers,

Tom P