Re: HTML Output limits

[Mel Rothman <mel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick,

Current and recent CGIDEV2 versions build the output stream in dynamically allocated 
teraspace.  The maximum page size, as far as CGIDEV2 is concerned, is about 2 gigabytes. 
The previous limit was about 16 megabytes.

Mel Rothman
CGIDEV2 Author


Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Jon,
>
> For some reason I believe there is a 32k limit to the page size for CGIDEV2.  I 
> don't remember where I got that from.  I just recently started working with 
> CGIDEV2 so my experience is limited.  I'm sure someone will correct me if the 
> 32k limit is incorrect.
>
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Jon Paris
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:53 AM
> To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] HTML Output limits
>
>  >> I don't know what you're referring to here.  The limit of a particular 
> application?
>
> The customer is building a very large web page.  At a certain size (difficult 
> to tell exactly) the browser screen just stops filling up and just sits there.
>
> I had them change the *FINI to a write to stream file and then display that file - it works perfectly.  It only seems to fail when the CGIDEV2 program is writing the output directly to the browser. 
>
> I could find no mention of limits anywhere and neither can the customer - but I 
> also haven't a clue what else could cause it.  If the request is directed to 
> the browser it hangs.  If it is directed to a file and the browser retrieves 
> the file it works just fine.
>
>
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
>
> www.Partner400.com
>
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