Webmaster Forum / Browsers / Internet Explorer / August 2003

I'm currently creating a web app that uses dialogs for
confirmation screens.  I'm running into problems when
sending data to my ASP based confirmations screens with
the overall datalength.  I have a TextArea that in my
database can be up to 2048 bytes in lenth, however if I
allow the user to put in a little more than a thousand
characters (which gets encoded as a CGI Parameter in the
URL of the showModalDialog), I am receiving a javascript
error.
  I can't send the information over using the arguments
parameter because I need the server to have the
information on the server side when it is generating the
ASP page in order to do data validation against other
elements in the database...

I could find no documentation on the length limitations
of the URL.  I would suggest that in future releases this
limitation be lengthened or some other way of passing
parameters to the next screens server page be implemented
(e.g. a form version).