Moosok and HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

[crugh]

Hi,

I am trying to send a line of text from a form using moosok to a database and it works as long as the text line is under a certain length. How can I send a longer line of text or essay without getting an HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request?

Also later I would like to recreate an essay writing program in MMF2 that was originally designed in flash but cannot seem submit a large text of data using moosok?

Thanks for any help or suggestion.

[Jeff]

What is the text line your sending?

Have you discovered what the length is that causes the problem?
I.E. 200 characters work but 201 do not

Without knowing a bit more about what your doing it would be hard to figure out what the problem is.

[crugh]

Here is a sample of a line that gets submitted with no error:

"|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0| ||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0||||||Wedne sday,June20,2007|||23:38:06"

But as I enter more fields with a space I get the error. This goes through but will not if a space is entered anywhere:

|||Seoul|||Korea|||email@email.com|||123-4567|||jobtitle|||articlenews|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0| ||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0|||0||||||W ednesday,June20,2007|||23:38:06

Does this mean that all the spaces should be replaced with a character then reinserted later?

Thanks.

[DavidN]

If you replace the spaces with their URL-encoded equivalent, %20, then you'll be able to pass them on to the database without problems - there's a "URL encode" action on the String Parser object that can do this.

[Jeff]

Yes and some of the other characters can cause problems with the PHP script. So you do want to be sure to use the URL encode function David mentioned.

A good test to see if it is OK is -- copy and paste it into a web browser itself -- If that fails then it will also fail thru moosock.

[Dynasoft]

Stupid question, but if you are using POST then you are sending the correct content-length?

[crugh]

Thanks for all the input.

It seems like a lot of extra work to strip out all the spaces and other characters that may cause errors then later replace them for readability? Is their an another approach? How about POST?

I created a flash essay writing program that could just send a student's outline and essay using php to a database as written. I would love to write this in MMF2 and expand the writing program to have spell check etc.

[Jeff]

The function in String Parser will encode the entire string for you

Set the string parser text to your text
Then just urlEncode$( "String Parser" )

and all the special characters and spaces will be converted

[crugh]

Great news- I'll give it a try.

Thanks

[Dynasoft]

If you are using GET then that could be why you're having trouble, most servers have a problem if the GET request is too long.

Here's a sample POST request:

POST /abc.php HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 25

data=abc%20123&user=admin

The request body (after the blank line) is identical to what you'd send after the ? in a GET request, and still should be url-encoded.