in reply to Re^2: Don't Blame The Browser
in thread Don't Blame The Browser

I tried to View Source after the browser was half-way baked. It nearly took down my entire machine. Memory usage shot past 600MB!

-sam

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Re^4: Don't Blame The Browser
by drewbie (Chaplain) on Jun 11, 2004 at 03:08 UTC
    Holy cow! Consider me impressed! How long was the browser loading the page before you decided to view the source? I'm also amazed that apache didn't choke on the repeated hidden GET params before it got to that size.

    I thought I remembered reading about a limit of ~2k characters in a GET string? Looking through the HTTP/1.1 RFC I didn't see any mention, and I can't find it in the Apache docs either. Am I just remembering things?

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      Holy cow! Consider me impressed! How long was the browser loading the page before you decided to view the source?

      I let it finish loading, which took around 5 minutes I believe.

      I thought I remembered reading about a limit of ~2k characters in a GET string?

      I think it's a compile-time parameter for Apache. But this form isn't a GET, it's a POST.

      -sam

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