strange posting problem on my website.........

[trevor]

i have had a strange problem on my site for a while, where when people are trying to post large posts (couple pages) on a slower connection, it times out or something when posting. i guess they wait for a few minutes while it trys to upload it, and then they get a "page cannot be displayed". Any ideas on this?, i dont think it would be my code so i guess it would be server side (prob posting in wrong forum).
peace,
Trevor

[sde]

the only thing in the php.ini file i found was:

default_socket_timeout = 60

you might want to try to bump that up. there is also probably a timeout parameter in your web server ( apache / iis )

are they uploading files? or just posting text?

[bdonalds]

I am going take a wild guess at the problem.... Are you using the "GET" method in your form tag. Try using the "POST" mehtod instead. GET passes all of the form info as part of the URL and it is limited to 1024 characters (or is it 2048...I forget). POST sends straight to stdout.

Usually, going over the limit just truncates your form data, but wihtout seeing your code, if the "action" page requires a certain variable that is getting truncated or something like that, it could cause problems.

Also, don't forget that you will need to make some changes to grab the variables when you change from GET to POST...i.e. change the $_GET['varname'] to $_POST['varname']

Of course, I may have guessed wrong about the whole thing!

If that's not it, send me a link to the page, or some code to look at.

Bryan