[Zope] problem with a form in IE 7

Garry Saddington garry at schoolteachers.co.uk
Mon Dec 15 15:31:21 EST 2008


On Monday 15 December 2008 15:04, Peter Bengtsson wrote:
> 2008/12/15  <garry at schoolteachers.co.uk>:
> > Quoting Peter Bengtsson <peterbe at gmail.com>:
> >> Has nothing to do with Zope but...
> >> Use Firefox to debug it and you'll get to see the error.
> >> put method="post" on form tag and the submission won't be visible in the
> >> URL.
> >
> > I've had this happen with method=get in the past. Changing to post fixed
> > it but...
> > May be worth checking zope.conf:
> >
> > Directive: http-header-max-length
> > #
> > # Description:
> > #     Maximum number of bytes allowed within a HTTP request header. The
> > request
> > #     is discarded and considered as a DoS attack if the header size
> > exceeds #     this limit.
> > #
> > # Default: 8192
> > #
> > # Example:
> > #
> > #     http-header-max-length 16384
>
> No. Don't fiddle with that. Get the form right. That's the basics.
> It might be worth reading up and understanding the basic difference
> between POST and GET and which to use when.

I wasn't suggesting that he fiddles with it, but that someone else may have 
already fiddled, so therefore to check that the default was still extant.

Regards
 Garry


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