a problem passing control characters in query string

[JoeyLemor]

whenever I write something inside a <textarea> form element, after i press &quot;enter&quot; in the keyboard, the characters in the next line are not passed on to the querystring. I've tried both &quot;<form method=post>&quot; and &quot;<form method=get&quot;> but it doesn't show up either way.

Is the query string that is passed supposed to also show the control characters (i.e &quot;carriage return&quot; and &quot;line feed&quot and the characters after that? If so, how?


Thanks

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I have improvised by inserting &quot;<BR>&quot; inside the &quot;<textarea> element&quot; in order to show the next line. But the form that i've used to post this message doesn't need that (i.e. i just press enter).

 

[Targol]

Don't you have a problem of URL lenght ?
I explain : I also had the same type of problems on an intranet in wich the user could enter no less than 4 textareas. Each of them could contain 2000 char. When passing to another page, the URL wich was created by concatening all the fields was always cut. The approximate maximum size of an url is 4096 char. Is your URL taller ?
If so, the way I found to override is to use cookies as a cookie is limited to 32000char. Water is not bad as long as it stays out human body ;-)