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

Allan Bush allan.bush+vtiger_dev at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 08:30:39 PST 2006


You're right the form should be using post (and I think most of them
are, the quote's one must have been over looked).

The good news for you is that's it's a really easy fix.  In the file
modules/Quotes/EditView.html simply change the form's method from
"get" to "post" (~line 39).

On 1/18/06, Dennis Grant <dgrant at accuratetechnologies.com> wrote:
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> Urk,
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> I just had a user stumble across a rather insidious bug in creating/editing
> a Quote.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> This is on the default install of vTiger that comes with Apache, MySQL, etc
> as one giant tarball.
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> Should the transport mechanism in vTiger be changed to POST? What are the
> consequences of doing this?
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> Is there someone at vTiger who will take up this bug? It is a showstopper
> for us.
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> DG
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