Re: Size Limit on FORM_STRING variable

[Robert I. <cor...@gm...>]

Yes.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Humair Mohammed <hu...@ho...>wrote:

>  It appears the following line # 2815 in parse_conf.c (v0.52) reads the
> 8192 characters from each line of the config file and I believe that
> explains the 8kb truncation.
>
>   char fgets_buff[1024*8];
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: hu...@ho...
> To: cur...@li...
> Subject: Size Limit on FORM_STRING variable
> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:04:25 -0600
>
>
>  Hello - It appears that there is a 8kb size limit on the the FORM_STRING
> variable value in the curl-loader configuration file. I am testing an
> application with a large size post data and curl-loader fails to start with
> the following message:
>
> ******************************
> found form_str XXX
> add_param_to_batch - error: unknown tag n.
>
> ATTENTION: If the tag not misspelled, read README.Migration file.
>
> parse_config_file - error: add_param_to_batch () failed processing buffer
> "n"
> main - error: parse_config_file () failed.
> ******************************
>
> It appears that if the FORM_STRING has a value that exceeds 8kb length the
> error message traps this and anything past the 8kb limit (in this case 'n'
> which is reported as unknown tag n) and reports the error above. If I
> remove anything past the 8kb string then the post works just fine. Is there
> a setting that will allow me to post large amounts of form data? I haven't
> tried the MULTIPART_FORM_DATA since it does not allow token replacements
> and I need token replacement functionality using the FORM_STRING and
> template file.
>
> If this need code recompilation to adjust for my case I would request any
> pointers in terms of which source file needs to be changed to increase the
> limits. I understand libcurl does not have any limits imposed on the size
> of the data that can be posted so I am hoping there is some setting in the
> curl-loader code that is adding this limitation that can be resolved.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Humair
>
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