> > The problem is that strURL is a really long string and it seems that
> > javascript craps out on this long string giving me an unspecified
> > error.

> Chances are that your crappy user agent and its API are the problem, not
> "javascript".  For example, MSIE is known to support only 2083 characters
> per URI:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427

> > I decided to test my theory and created a generic function to
> > pass over my url string and sure enough javascript dies with the same
> > error.

> Which error?

> > I figured one way around it was to split my string into an
> > array and then join it up again but xmlHttp.open is not a method or
> > object I wrote, so I cant easily manipulate it.

> It would not help you anyway.  The URI needs to be complete in an HTTP
> request.  Read RFCs 1945 and 2616.

> > Any thoughts on a way around this?

> As you cannot prevent people from using crappy UAs, and you cannot expect
> the vendor of this particular crappy UA to get reasonable in no time, if
> that, make a POST request instead.

> PointedEars
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