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Alexander Žaťko

long URLs and IE

On one page of my web app I have a link of this type:

<xforms:submit xxf:appearance="image">
<xxf:img
src="./images/doc.edit.18x16.gif"
alt="Create Invoice"
border="0"
align="top"
width="18"
height="16"/>
<xforms:setvalue ref="transaction_id"><xsl:value-of
select="transaction_id"/></xforms:setvalue>
<xforms:setvalue ref="action">edit-invoice</xforms:setvalue>
</xforms:submit>

When I click onto this link in any browser except IE on Windows the
resulting actions work as expected. In IE I get a "page missing"
message. I think it is related to an IE "feature" where IE truncates
URLs longer than 255 chars because the URL generated by OPS for this
link is longer than that:

http://localhost:8080/test/
edit?%24instance=Fuly3mwf7IxKLFCP73m1YO8id1c3pd7%2BuXqPYDtgQArpn99vYPCaM
m8yfFkKVqBBRwK69OY%2FZhgv%0AQe9yTZ5aZ0E676aWtBOoioyHkLvRRzHPPB81yhZiDaKP
WB%2FqZo731cPkwM76g4sUKPVf8A%2Fjq4L0%0A44c7hbnPUEgrEEEv457yd42mZax8QJEOr
kqxZ13fI9vesyEC5kIZw%2FpLUamzRhmzEn9TlV1T6JdV%0ATUYsNjFuPjtKSFJh9FnInvDI
4bc%2FfZ%2FQnsNGSAusyVuPDdDZ95KckNA2ljDeBnC7DPKWBD03C4tf%0A18b25GWm62daq
HZRej%2F9hy35bOr6lyb6cDzYnA%3D%3D

Why is the URL so long? Can I avoid this by switching to the new XForms
engine? I know I could build the page so that it does not use XForms to
gain control over the length of the URL, but I wanted to ask first what
would be the best strategy to deal with this.

Thanks

Alex.

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Erik Bruchez

Re: long URLs and IE

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Alex,

Yes, browsers support fairly short URLs (about 4K though), and IE seems
to support shorter URLs than Firefox. I assume that you are using the
Classic XForms engine? In that case, the unique XForms instance is
encoded on URLs when you submit forms with "GET". Make sure you have
this in your XForms model instead:

<xforms:submission method="post"/>

-Erik

Alexander Zatko wrote:

> On one page of my web app I have a link of this type:
>
> <xforms:submit xxf:appearance="image">
> <xxf:img
> src="./images/doc.edit.18x16.gif"
> alt="Create Invoice"
> border="0"
> align="top"
> width="18"
> height="16"/>
> <xforms:setvalue ref="transaction_id"><xsl:value-of
> select="transaction_id"/></xforms:setvalue>
> <xforms:setvalue ref="action">edit-invoice</xforms:setvalue>
> </xforms:submit>
>
> When I click onto this link in any browser except IE on Windows the
> resulting actions work as expected. In IE I get a "page missing"
> message. I think it is related to an IE "feature" where IE truncates
> URLs longer than 255 chars because the URL generated by OPS for this
> link is longer than that:
>
> http://localhost:8080/test/
> edit?%24instance=Fuly3mwf7IxKLFCP73m1YO8id1c3pd7%2BuXqPYDtgQArpn99vYPCaM
> m8yfFkKVqBBRwK69OY%2FZhgv%0AQe9yTZ5aZ0E676aWtBOoioyHkLvRRzHPPB81yhZiDaKP
> WB%2FqZo731cPkwM76g4sUKPVf8A%2Fjq4L0%0A44c7hbnPUEgrEEEv457yd42mZax8QJEOr
> kqxZ13fI9vesyEC5kIZw%2FpLUamzRhmzEn9TlV1T6JdV%0ATUYsNjFuPjtKSFJh9FnInvDI
> 4bc%2FfZ%2FQnsNGSAusyVuPDdDZ95KckNA2ljDeBnC7DPKWBD03C4tf%0A18b25GWm62daq
> HZRej%2F9hy35bOr6lyb6cDzYnA%3D%3D
>
> Why is the URL so long? Can I avoid this by switching to the new XForms
> engine? I know I could build the page so that it does not use XForms to
> gain control over the length of the URL, but I wanted to ask first what
> would be the best strategy to deal with this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Alex.

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Alexander Žaťko

Re: long URLs and IE

Yes, I do use the classic xforms engine on this page, but I also do
have the attribute set to post:

<xforms:submission id="send" method="post" action="/switcher"
replace="all"/>

A.

On Sep 26, 2005, at 10:27 PM, Erik Bruchez wrote:

> Alex,
>
> Yes, browsers support fairly short URLs (about 4K though), and IE
> seems to support shorter URLs than Firefox. I assume that you are
> using the Classic XForms engine? In that case, the unique XForms
> instance is encoded on URLs when you submit forms with "GET". Make
> sure you have this in your XForms model instead:
>
> <xforms:submission method="post"/>
>
> -Erik
>
> Alexander Zatko wrote:
>> On one page of my web app I have a link of this type:
>> <xforms:submit xxf:appearance="image">
>> <xxf:img
>> src="./images/doc.edit.18x16.gif"
>> alt="Create Invoice"
>> border="0"
>> align="top"
>> width="18"
>> height="16"/>
>> <xforms:setvalue ref="transaction_id"><xsl:value-of
>> select="transaction_id"/></xforms:setvalue>
>> <xforms:setvalue ref="action">edit-invoice</xforms:setvalue>
>> </xforms:submit>
>> When I click onto this link in any browser except IE on Windows the
>> resulting actions work as expected. In IE I get a "page missing"
>> message. I think it is related to an IE "feature" where IE truncates
>> URLs longer than 255 chars because the URL generated by OPS for this
>> link is longer than that:
>> http://localhost:8080/test/
>> edit?%24instance=Fuly3mwf7IxKLFCP73m1YO8id1c3pd7%2BuXqPYDtgQArpn99vYPC
>> aM
>> m8yfFkKVqBBRwK69OY%2FZhgv%0AQe9yTZ5aZ0E676aWtBOoioyHkLvRRzHPPB81yhZiDa
>> KP
>> WB%2FqZo731cPkwM76g4sUKPVf8A%2Fjq4L0%0A44c7hbnPUEgrEEEv457yd42mZax8QJE
>> Or
>> kqxZ13fI9vesyEC5kIZw%2FpLUamzRhmzEn9TlV1T6JdV%0ATUYsNjFuPjtKSFJh9FnInv
>> DI
>> 4bc%2FfZ%2FQnsNGSAusyVuPDdDZ95KckNA2ljDeBnC7DPKWBD03C4tf%0A18b25GWm62d
>> aq HZRej%2F9hy35bOr6lyb6cDzYnA%3D%3D
>> Why is the URL so long? Can I avoid this by switching to the new
>> XForms engine? I know I could build the page so that it does not use
>> XForms to gain control over the length of the URL, but I wanted to
>> ask first what would be the best strategy to deal with this.
>> Thanks
>> Alex.
>
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Erik Bruchez

Re: long URLs and IE

Administrator

Alex,

Can you confirm what XForms engine you are using? If Classic, then the
xforms:submission element below will not do much for you, as only the
method attribute is supported with that engine. On the other hand all
those attributes are supported with XForms NG.

Can you send a reproducible case?

-Erik

Alexander Zatko wrote:

> Yes, I do use the classic xforms engine on this page, but I also do
> have the attribute set to post:
>
> <xforms:submission id="send" method="post" action="/switcher"
> replace="all"/>
>
> A.
>
> On Sep 26, 2005, at 10:27 PM, Erik Bruchez wrote:
>
>> Alex,
>>
>> Yes, browsers support fairly short URLs (about 4K though), and IE
>> seems to support shorter URLs than Firefox. I assume that you are
>> using the Classic XForms engine? In that case, the unique XForms
>> instance is encoded on URLs when you submit forms with "GET". Make
>> sure you have this in your XForms model instead:
>>
>> <xforms:submission method="post"/>
>>
>> -Erik
>>
>> Alexander Zatko wrote:
>>
>>> On one page of my web app I have a link of this type:
>>> <xforms:submit xxf:appearance="image">
>>> <xxf:img
>>> src="./images/doc.edit.18x16.gif"
>>> alt="Create Invoice"
>>> border="0"
>>> align="top"
>>> width="18"
>>> height="16"/>
>>> <xforms:setvalue ref="transaction_id"><xsl:value-of
>>> select="transaction_id"/></xforms:setvalue>
>>> <xforms:setvalue ref="action">edit-invoice</xforms:setvalue>
>>> </xforms:submit>
>>> When I click onto this link in any browser except IE on Windows the
>>> resulting actions work as expected. In IE I get a "page missing"
>>> message. I think it is related to an IE "feature" where IE
>>> truncates URLs longer than 255 chars because the URL generated by
>>> OPS for this link is longer than that:
>>> http://localhost:8080/test/
>>> edit?%24instance=Fuly3mwf7IxKLFCP73m1YO8id1c3pd7%2BuXqPYDtgQArpn99vYPC
>>> aM
>>> m8yfFkKVqBBRwK69OY%2FZhgv%0AQe9yTZ5aZ0E676aWtBOoioyHkLvRRzHPPB81yhZiDa
>>> KP
>>> WB%2FqZo731cPkwM76g4sUKPVf8A%2Fjq4L0%0A44c7hbnPUEgrEEEv457yd42mZax8QJE
>>> Or
>>> kqxZ13fI9vesyEC5kIZw%2FpLUamzRhmzEn9TlV1T6JdV%0ATUYsNjFuPjtKSFJh9FnInv
>>> DI
>>> 4bc%2FfZ%2FQnsNGSAusyVuPDdDZ95KckNA2ljDeBnC7DPKWBD03C4tf%0A18b25GWm62d
>>> aq HZRej%2F9hy35bOr6lyb6cDzYnA%3D%3D
>>> Why is the URL so long? Can I avoid this by switching to the new
>>> XForms engine? I know I could build the page so that it does not
>>> use XForms to gain control over the length of the URL, but I wanted
>>> to ask first what would be the best strategy to deal with this.
>>> Thanks
>>> Alex.
>>
>>
>>
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Alexander Žaťko

Re: long URLs and IE

Erik,

I believe I am using the Classic engine as the <page> elements in my
pageflow have the "xforms" attribute. I will try to produce a
reproducible copy of the site that does not use database. This should
be relatively easy as I can just replace an sql processor output with
an XML file. I will try to do this in the next coupe of days.

A.

On Sep 27, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Erik Bruchez wrote:

> Alex,
>
> Can you confirm what XForms engine you are using? If Classic, then the
> xforms:submission element below will not do much for you, as only the
> method attribute is supported with that engine. On the other hand all
> those attributes are supported with XForms NG.
>
> Can you send a reproducible case?
>
> -Erik
>
> Alexander Zatko wrote:
>> Yes, I do use the classic xforms engine on this page, but I also do
>> have the attribute set to post:
>> <xforms:submission id="send" method="post" action="/switcher"
>> replace="all"/>
>> A.
>> On Sep 26, 2005, at 10:27 PM, Erik Bruchez wrote:
>>> Alex,
>>>
>>> Yes, browsers support fairly short URLs (about 4K though), and IE
>>> seems to support shorter URLs than Firefox. I assume that you are
>>> using the Classic XForms engine? In that case, the unique XForms
>>> instance is encoded on URLs when you submit forms with "GET". Make
>>> sure you have this in your XForms model instead:
>>>
>>> <xforms:submission method="post"/>
>>>
>>> -Erik
>>>
>>> Alexander Zatko wrote:
>>>
>>>> On one page of my web app I have a link of this type:
>>>> <xforms:submit xxf:appearance="image">
>>>> <xxf:img
>>>> src="./images/doc.edit.18x16.gif"
>>>> alt="Create Invoice"
>>>> border="0"
>>>> align="top"
>>>> width="18"
>>>> height="16"/>
>>>> <xforms:setvalue ref="transaction_id"><xsl:value-of
>>>> select="transaction_id"/></xforms:setvalue>
>>>> <xforms:setvalue ref="action">edit-invoice</xforms:setvalue>
>>>> </xforms:submit>
>>>> When I click onto this link in any browser except IE on Windows the
>>>> resulting actions work as expected. In IE I get a "page missing"
>>>> message. I think it is related to an IE "feature" where IE
>>>> truncates URLs longer than 255 chars because the URL generated by
>>>> OPS for this link is longer than that:
>>>> http://localhost:8080/test/
>>>> edit?%24instance=Fuly3mwf7IxKLFCP73m1YO8id1c3pd7%2BuXqPYDtgQArpn99vY
>>>> PC aM
>>>> m8yfFkKVqBBRwK69OY%2FZhgv%0AQe9yTZ5aZ0E676aWtBOoioyHkLvRRzHPPB81yhZi
>>>> Da KP
>>>> WB%2FqZo731cPkwM76g4sUKPVf8A%2Fjq4L0%0A44c7hbnPUEgrEEEv457yd42mZax8Q
>>>> JE Or
>>>> kqxZ13fI9vesyEC5kIZw%2FpLUamzRhmzEn9TlV1T6JdV%0ATUYsNjFuPjtKSFJh9FnI
>>>> nv DI
>>>> 4bc%2FfZ%2FQnsNGSAusyVuPDdDZ95KckNA2ljDeBnC7DPKWBD03C4tf%0A18b25GWm6
>>>> 2d aq HZRej%2F9hy35bOr6lyb6cDzYnA%3D%3D
>>>> Why is the URL so long? Can I avoid this by switching to the new
>>>> XForms engine? I know I could build the page so that it does not
>>>> use XForms to gain control over the length of the URL, but I
>>>> wanted to ask first what would be the best strategy to deal with
>>>> this.
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Alex.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Alexander Žaťko

Re: long URLs and IE

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Eric, I have uploaded the files to my ftp server. Can you send me a
private email? I will send you the ftp info.

A.

sano at strings dot net

On Sep 27, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Erik Bruchez wrote: