[sldev] How many chars can be sent in an HTTP post?

[Kelly Linden]

I jumped to conclusions from the 'Thanks great SL Scripters!' that this was
about the script functions!  But this is the sldev list, not the scripters
list.
I believe the others have covered the limits outside of our LSL imposed
limits.  There is a 1024 byte limit on headers in our C++ processing of
requests in the simulator.  I'm not sure about any other limits.

 - Kelly

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Kelly Linden <kelly at lindenlab.com> wrote:

> For HTTP-In (llRequestURL, http_request, llHTTPResponse):
> The body of a POST or PUT to http_request is capped at 2048 bytes.The
> headers are capped at 255 bytes
> The query args and extended path (beyond the cap) are converted to headers
> before they reach the sim, and thus subject to the header limit.
>
> For HTTP-Out (llHTTPRequest, http_response):
> There is no cap on the body sent out with the request.  Whatever your
> script can hold as a string.
> The body returned by the request is capped at 2048 bytes.
>
> I think that covers the limits?
>
>  - Kelly
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Tateru Nino <tateru.nino at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> RFC2616 doesn't impose any particular restriction, but intermediate
>> software might. Last I looked, the Lab was using squid to handle...
>> well, quite a lot of things, including this. By default that has no
>> limit for request bodies, and a 20KB limit for request headers (assuming
>> we're talking about HTTP-out (SL to world)).
>>
>> My expectation, however, is that these values are clamped somewhat
>> tighter than that, but I'm not really sure quite where -- I know I've
>> bumped into them once before, but I didn't write it down.
>>
>> If nobody has the answer handy, write a test-script to progressively
>> increase the amount, until you get an error. That'll give you a
>> definitive answer, at least, at the expense of doing a bit of fiddling
>> to get it.
>>
>> Fire wrote:
>> > Hi there, I read the wiki and see that an http response body is
>> > limited to 2048,
>> > but how long can our post vars be?
>> >
>> > Ie: Id like to send to the server a bunch of UUID's, just wondering
>> > how many I can send at a time.
>> >
>> > Please let me know!
>> > Thanks great SL Scripters!
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