[Vtigercrm-developers] BUG: Maximum data limit in New Quote due to Transport Mechanism

Dennis Grant dgrant at accuratetechnologies.com
Wed Jan 18 07:24:54 PST 2006


Urk,

 

I just had a user stumble across a rather insidious bug in
creating/editing a Quote.

 

Quotes have two LONGTEXT fields - DESCRIPTION and TERMS AND CONDITIONS -
that they can fill in with arbitrary text. This is Sweet Crunchy
Goodness, as that ability meshes very well with our Quote generation
paradigm.

 

However, it appears that the transport mechanism for submitting a new
Quote is GET, not POST - meaning that all the data filled in in these
two text fields are placed on the URL line, for which there is a maximum
size.

 

The symptom if the bug is that attempting to submit a Quote which
contains more data than is allowed (put a lot of text in one or both
text boxes) fails quietly - no error message, no nothing. Delete enough
of the data out of the textbox to drop the size of the GET below this
maximum, and everything works as normal.

 

This is on the default install of vTiger that comes with Apache, MySQL,
etc as one giant tarball.

 

Should the transport mechanism in vTiger be changed to POST? What are
the consequences of doing this?

 

Is there someone at vTiger who will take up this bug? It is a
showstopper for us.

 

DG 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.vtigercrm.com/pipermail/vtigercrm-developers/attachments/20060118/fc653e77/attachment-0005.html 


More information about the vtigercrm-developers mailing list