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John_Edwards
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First of all, I'd like to say up front that this has nothing to do with the credential cookies that WebFOCUS uses for authentication.

We have a call for a focexec that is going to have an exceptionally long string. It exceeds the available url length for IE so we will pass it via a POST cookie.

Now, variables on the url string are magically turned into amper-variables in the called focexec. Does this happen with variables in the post cookie as well?

Any light you can shed . . .


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Tony A
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John,

As far as most people are concerned, POST and GET act the same way.

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John_Edwards
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Hey Tony -- who you calling "most people" eh?

I've done this calling Maintain and it appears that they're just variables like any other. I dig them out the same way as a GET variable. So I don't think it should make a difference. But there's no question in the forums specifically asking the question so I thought I'd see if anyone had done it.

I'll post a response when I find out. My wingman is coding the focexec and likely will know the results soon.

J.

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Francis Mariani
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You don't have to worry how, I think it's a functionality of the HTML form, not WebFOCUS.


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This functioned exactly as expected. The variables within the POST cookie work exactly the same way as variables sent on the command line via a GET request. 2800 characters sent and received.

Thanks for tuning in folks!

J.


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Waz
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Keep in mind that the way variables are passed to Maintain is different to passing to WF.

I've just done a quick test with passing a variable to WF (766)

Got up to a variable size of 30,000 chars, and gave up.


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