php hang if textarea > 1156 chars?

[Anon]

I'm having a weird problem whereby php totally hangs if I submit a form with a textarea containing more than 1156 characters. I can't even get a script to return "hello world" if the textarea has 1157 characters. The connection just hangs and php does nothing. Everythign works great with fewer chars than that (i.e. scripts run, I can connect to db's etc.).

I'm using php on a box that I don't control, is this a php installation thing?

Is there a maximumn sized textarea that can be submitted to a php script via CGI POST method?

I'm totally confused.

[Anon]

I just tested this problem using perl, and found that I get the same behavior (my script hangs if I submit a form with a textarea containing more than 1156 characters).

Thus it is not specific to php, and must be related to either my ISP, or something else.

[Anon]

It might be apache or the server setup maybe? or the MySQL database?