[FX.php List] Anyone know how to escape characters?

[Michael Layne]

For what it's worth, I would have never considered using GET to  
"post" as potentially arbitrary a field contents as a body of an  
email.  Unless I'm pretty sure about the URL string in a GET (i.e.  
id=30049&name=Joe&product=300495&type=batch), or if it is clearly  
longer than I can see in the address bar, post is best.  I upload  
something similar (a block of content users input, complete with  
simple HTML tags).  It's DEFINITELY POST.

This is just my experience and study.  I won't claim to be an expert  
on the HTTP 1.1 Protocol!

HTH
Michael


On May 16, 2005, at 10:21 PM, Dave Strickler wrote:

> Good idea!
>
> I tried a few experiments, and although I didn't trap down an exact  
> numbers of characters, the POST (yes, I tried changing it from GET)  
> seems to have the same issues as just using the URL. At about +100  
> characters, the record is not created in FM. Note I am using FLU  
> v5.0v3
>
> Looks like its a problem with using a URL to input 'large' chunks  
> of data. I don't think its a problem with fx.php.
>
> What surprises me is that no one has bucked up again this before? I  
> am adding in text fields that have the bodies of emails as we use  
> FM as our CRM. Doesn't seem all that unusual to me. Is it unusually  
> to add in text like this? Maybe I'm doing things strangely...
>
> Dave Strickler
> MailWise LLC
> 617 267-0044 x810
> www.mailwise.com
>
>
> >>> bastille at arsc.edu 5/16/2005 7:13:04 PM >>>
> One thing you can try (that I find myself using quite a bit) is to add
> the following snippet just after the FMFind() query:
>
>      <pre><?php echo 'FM URL' . $returnedData['URL'] . "\n"; ?></pre>
>
>    This snippet prints the actual URL used by FXphp to talk to the FM
> server.  You can then cut and paste this in to a browser to see if FM
> will take it or if it has been truncated.
>
> Regards,
>    Derek
>
> On May 16, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:
>
> > On 17/5/05 5:45 AM, "Dave Strickler" <dstrickler at mailwise.com>  
> wrote:
> >
> >> I am having trouble inserting data into a FM database, and I'm 90%
> >> sure its the data as when I try with test data it works just fine.
> >>
> >>  The data that won't import has chars like "[" and "]" as well as
> >> "@", "%", "http://". One of the fields is text, and is about 1.5k
> >> long. While I don't get an error from FX, the record never  
> appears in
> >> FM.
> >>
> >>  Any clues on this? Perhaps I need to escape the data ?
> >>
> >>  Thanks,
> >>
> >>  Dave Strickler
> >>  MailWise LLC
> >>  617 267-0044 x810
> >>  www.mailwise.com <http://www.mailwise.com>
> >
> >  Your large text field may in fact exceed the allowable limit on GET
> > requests. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I understood that FX always
> > uses GET when sending data to FM, no matter what method you  
> specify in
> > your form.
> >  --
> >  Kevin Futter
> >  Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
> > http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
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