Hey all,
I've been using UNCGI to develop some cool little CGI apps lately and I have run across only one problem. Namely, the fact that get_value will not return anything longer than 255 chars. I've tried putting it into a pchar and into a ansistring with no luck. Please help with a solution. I will modify the uncgi code if required.. but i need to know what direction to take in doing so.

Thanks,
Matt

Hi Matt,

I guess this is because (Turbo) Pascal Strings cannot be longer than 255 chars. So you should change the source of uncgi to use pchar or ansistrings for all string manipulations. It is not enough to convert to a pchar or ansistring at the end, because if anywhere you get a standard string the result will be truncated to 255 chars.

[]s, Fernando Lozano

Try adding {$H+} to the uncgi unit. That will switch all strings to ansistrings.

Peter

Afaik the GET method itself is limited to 255 chars. Use POST methods.

Hello,
Thank you all for the quick responses. The problem is this though:

I am using the post method to get the contents of a <textarea> tag. In the source code it says there is a limitation of the UNCGI unit in that it cannot pass params >255 chars. I tried simply converting everything to ansistrings but then the results came back funny. I think somewhere it relies on the s[0] element (which ansistrings don't support).

Any more ideas?

- Matt

In a message dated Mon, 18 Jun 2001 7:41:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Fernando Lozano writes:

<< Hi Matt,

I guess this is because (Turbo) Pascal Strings cannot be longer than 255 chars. So you should change the source of uncgi to use pchar or ansistrings for all string manipulations. It is not enough to convert to a pchar or ansistring at the end, because if anywhere you get a standard string the result will be truncated to 255 chars.

[]s, Fernando Lozano

Hello, Thank you all for the quick responses. The problem is this though: I am using the post method to get the contents of a <textarea> tag. In the source

code
it says there is a limitation of the UNCGI unit in that it cannot pass params >255 chars. I tried simply converting everything to ansistrings but then the results came back funny. I think somewhere it relies on the s[0] element (which ansistrings don't support).

Any more ideas?

Did you try the ezcgi unit from the FCL?

Matt,

Thank you all for the quick responses. The problem is this though: I am using the post method to get the contents of a <textarea> tag. In the source code it says there is a limitation of the UNCGI unit in that it cannot pass params >255 chars. I tried simply converting everything to ansistrings but then the results came back funny. I think somewhere it relies on the s[0] element (which ansistrings don't support).

s[0] is the length of the string. You can replace all ocurrences by strlen().

[]s, Fernando Lozano

Try my little piece of unit. It has been tested under Apache on Linux and Win32/Dos.

Your sincerely,
IoDream.