HttpRequest and body length

[Xiija]

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• The response body is limited to 2048 bytes by default; if it is longer it will be truncated.**

 I have a response body that is longer than this, is there any way to

get just a certain portion of a google doc?

 would it be better to use a spreadsheet/chart etc?

 

[Ohjiro Watanabe]

The way I do it is to have a process run externally to grab the web page and parse it to get the info I need. I am doing a google search which may return up to 20 pages and I need just one line of it.

My external process is hosted free on Appharbour.com which is a .net platform. Google Apps would be an alternative to run python and I think perl.

[Freya Mokusei]

Echoing Ohjiro, the best way to do this is going to be to control the output at the web-side.

Most hosting platforms - but probably not Google Docs (it's not really a host) - allow you to run functions against the page you're outputting. It'd be trivial to just count the number of characters and trim at 2048.

Far as I can imagine, best route will be to skip on Google Docs. It's not really a trustable platform for scripted lookups and in all likelihood exposes the data you're passing to third parties (at least Google, anyway).

[Nova Convair]

The response body is max. 16384 for a mono script. If that isn't enough you need an external solution to solve it.

Just read the description in teh wiki for llHttpRequest and use the HTTP_BODY_MAXLENGTH parameter.