how to read large block of text

[coltrane]

I am trying to create an ASP page that processes a large block of text
that is posted to the page. The data block is approximately 500K. The
only was I can figure to get the posted text into a string is using
BinaryToString. Is there another way to just get the body of text that
is posted?

thanks for your help

john

 

[Roland Hall]

in message
:I am trying to create an ASP page that processes a large block of text
: that is posted to the page. The data block is approximately 500K. The
: only was I can figure to get the posted text into a string is using
: BinaryToString. Is there another way to just get the body of text that
: is posted?

Is it posted via the URL or in the header? I don't think there is much a
limit if posted in the header.

I wrote a VBS script to upload a file to ASP passing the name of the file,
which actually gets is using FSO and submits it as text in a textarea. The
only thing I've had to consider for large files is a timeout.

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[coltrane]

Is it posted via the URL or in the header?

This is a good question. I am using IWinHttpRequest object from the
WinHttp SDK. This performs IHttpRequest->Open specifying POST. The data
is then sent using IHttpRequest->Send. The data is sent as a block of
text without any "?valuename=".
Unfortunately, this is a mix of an ASP scripting question and a
HTTPRequest COM question. argh!

I guess I can try to "sniff" the http packets.

for giggles I'll include a chunk of the C++ code:

bsUrl = "www.test.com"

pHttp.CoCreateInstance( __uuidof(WinHttpRequest) );
_variant_t vEmpty;
pHttp->SetProxy( HTTPREQUEST_PROXYSETTING_PRECONFIG, vEmpty, vEmpty );

hr = pHttp->Open( HTTP_VERB_POST, bsUrl, _variant_t(true) );

pHttp->put_Option( WinHttpRequestOption_EnableRedirects,
_variant_t(bHandleRedirect) );

pHttp->SetRequestHeader(L"Content-length", _bstr_t(szLength) );
pHttp->SetRequestHeader(L"Content-type", bsContentType);

m_pHttp->Send( vData );

Thanks for the feedback


John

 

[Mark Schupp]

What content type are you using?

 

[coltrane]

Mark,

Text

John

 

[Mark Schupp]

For data to appear in the form collection it should have a content type of
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" and be in name/value format.

Try using that content type and pre-pending a "mydata=" to the data
(urlencode the data first). See if that works the way you expect for small
amounts of data. Then try a large chunk of data to see if this does what you
need. There may be some settings that you will have to change on the
web-server for large data posts (IIRC IIS6 restricts posts to 200k by
default).

Also, include your original problem in future posts. I don't remember
exactly what you were trying to do.

 

[coltrane]

Thanks for your feedback.

For data to appear in the form collection it should have a content type of
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" and be in name/value format.

Try using that content type and pre-pending a "mydata=" to the data
(urlencode the data first). See if that works the way you expect for small
amounts of data. Then try a large chunk of data to see if this does what you
need. There may be some settings that you will have to change on the
web-server for large data posts (IIRC IIS6 restricts posts to 200k by
default).

Also, include your original problem in future posts. I don't remember
exactly what you were trying to do.