Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:47:22 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 1024 character input limit? (forw) Re: Please help: Buffers Message-ID: <20000309234722.E14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
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There's probably 100 places I'd have to look to figure out where
this limit is, does anyone have an idea?
basically input is limited to 1024 characters...
----- Forwarded message from Matthew Enger <menger@dhs.org> -----
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:20:06 +0800 (CST)
From: Matthew Enger <menger@dhs.org>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
cc: John Ryan <jryan@kgv.edu.hk>
Subject: Re: Please help: Buffers
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003101418410.1527-100000@gate.kgv.edu.hk>
Hi Alfred,
We are running it on the console, i.e. perl t.pl, holding down the "a" key
and after 1024 "a"'s it will not accept any more.
from,
Matthew Enger
menger@kgv.edu.hk
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * John Ryan <jryan@kgv.edu.hk> [000309 21:58] wrote:
> > Hi Alfred,
> >
> > Matthew's script doesn't need a browser. you can run it from the command
> > line in UNIX. The same program run under Linux doesn't exhibit this
> > problem.
>
> I can't reproduce this:
>
> t.pl has your script in it...
>
> ~ % lptest 2000 5 | sed 's/ //g' | wc
> 5 5 9900
> ~ % lptest 2000 5 | sed 's/ //g' | perl t.pl | wc
> 5 5 9900
> ~ % uname -srm
> FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386
>
> how are you running this script?
>
> please give a better way to reproduce this.
>
> -Alfred
>
> >
> > Regards
> > John Ryan
> > System Manager
> > King George V School
> >
> > <On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > > * Matthew Enger <menger@student.kgv.edu.hk> [000309 18:23] wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > At the school I am attending we are running Squid 2.3.STABLE1 on FreeBSD 3.4-
> > > > STABLE with cyberpatrol filters. We reciently discovered that if the URL
> > > > entred into the squid redirect program for cyberpatrol is over 1024
> > > > characters the program will not recieve any more text. This is causing
> > > > problems for some URI's being accessed through our proxy which are (for some
> > > > odd reason) longer then 1024 characters.
> > > >
> > > > I wrote a perl script below to act as a redirector and it is having the same
> > > > problem:
> > > >
> > > > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > > >
> > > > $|=1;
> > > > use strict;
> > > >
> > > > while (<>) {
> > > > my @X = split;
> > > > my $url = $X[0];
> > > > chomp $url;
> > > >
> > > > print "$url\n";
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know how I can change this limit for both C (the cyberpatrol
> > > > program) and perl programs?
> > >
> > > You're not mentioning which browser you are using, but i know that
> > > some if not all versions of MSIE don't work with URLs longer than
> > > 1024 characters.
> > >
> > > -Alfred
> > >
> > >
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> > >
>
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
>
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