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Joao Marcos Melo Mendes (jmmm@megamedia.pt)
Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:42:11 +0100 (BST) 

Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:42:11 +0100 (BST)
From: Joao Marcos Melo Mendes <jmmm@megamedia.pt>
Subject: Re: [mSQL] 255+
Message-Id: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960924194053.16096A-100000@gatekeeper.megamedia.pt>

Hi, there.:)

On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Gary Bickford wrote:

> I just started to have this problem on one of my dbms interfaces - I
> haven't tracked it down, but I'm hoping it's because I used a GET instead
> of a POST because I was debugging something else. I'll pass the word as
> soon as I figure it out. It's certainly something I did in PHP.

Hmmm. Some servers and browsers limit the lenght of URLs. If a POST used
to work but now a GET doesn't, your query strings are probably getting
truncated...

> The following is correct, because it used to work (and still does on
> another set of pages.)
>
> >Sure just make it a CHAR field as long as you need it to be.
> >
> >At 05:43 PM 9/20/96 -0500, you wrote:
> >>I have a database that has a description field that needs too be able to
> >>have more than 255 chars. Is there a way to do this?

                                        Joao Mendes
                                        MegaMedia, S.A.

"We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms." - Mark Knopfler

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