Http communication problem (GET / POST)

[falseth]

I am developing a LabVIEW program that communicates with a webserver via http protocol. I'm using  "URL Get HTTP Document " vi (part of LabVIEW Internet Toolkit) to make it possible. This vi gives support only to "GET method", in wich the message is sent in the URL. This method has a maximum size of 1024 characters, compelling me to truncate some messages (this limitation is imposed by a lot of popular servers, like Tomcat). I know it's possible to modify the vis in the toolkit. However, I don't want to make this because it may cause a lot of  "collateral effects" in the future.  Http specification could be read at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html
I think National could modify this vi to include support to "POST method" (without maximum size). What do you think about it? Does anyone have some idea of a workaround?

Best regards,
Vinicius Falseth

[AESulzer]

Vinicius,

The URL Get HTTP Document VI does not seem to have an inherent maximum size restriction -- I was just able to use to it to get a 174,752 character response. Perhaps this is just a limit imposed by certain servers. At any rate, the easiest solution would just be to modify the VI and save it under a different name. As long as you save it under a different name, what future "collateral effects" would you need to worry about?

Kind Regards,

[<Alex>]

Hi All,

I'm also sending long string via url using Web Service and GET method. It's realy impossible to send string longer then a 1024 characters. 

If anyone know workaround please reply.

Thanks,

Alexander