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Hi Jon,
I know there has to be a limit somewhere in the size of an output HTML stream - but I'm darned if I can find it in the documentation (other than of course the implicit limit imposed by a 10i).
I don't know what you're referring to here. The limit of a particular application? (Apache? CGIDEV2? Internet Explorer?) Or a limit to the number of characters that you can return via stdout? Or a limit imposed by standards?
But, in all cases, to the best of my knowledge, there's no limit. The only one of these products that has a limit is CGIDEV2 -- and even there, the limit isn't as small as 10i!
I know that Apache can handle files longer an 4gb, so there's no silly 10i limit. I'm pretty sure that stdout is implemented as a pipe, and has no limit on the total size. (There's a limit per write to the pipe, but no limit to the total number of writes.)
Obviously, there are practical limits. Eventually, the PC browser runs out of memory and causes the PC to crawl. The user gets fed up with waiting for the HTML to download. So there are practical limits, but those limits change over time as computers come with more memory, and link speeds get faster.
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