[REBOL] Re: html post
From: al:bri:xtra at: 8-Aug-2002 22:09
Brett wrote:
> Again, I seem to recall that there was a problem with relying on
content-length, but if it is working for you then hey who am I to disagree!
:^)
It did take a while for me to realise the need for two extra character
spaces. I had a aweful lot of .txt files that terminated with CR (instead of
CRLF), or dropped the last character (that's how I noticed it). But I've
been using the wiki software for weeks now on several computers and two type
of web server and all's well. After all, as I understand it, the web server
first receives all the data from the browser, then invokes the CGI (so
setting content-length), collects the CGI output, adds appropriate headers,
then supplies the browser. Each step is discrete and doesn't overlap as far
as I know.
I think the method you're describing is for occasions where Rebol is reading
the data directly from a network rather than buffered by a web server. For
example, a Rebol Web Server (not CGI script!) that's receiving multi-part
form info from browser over a slow network, perhaps containing a file.
Andrew Martin
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