I want to get my entire URL, not just some 255-ish characters

Orteil

Hello,
I'm trying to get my entire URL (or at least an entire $GET) into a variable, but I never seem to be able to get the entire thing (it's a very long $GET) and I'm in a specific situation where I can't use $POST. Apparently, PHP only takes the 255 first characters of my URL.
This is what I've tried :

$body = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) ? "https://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] : "http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

and

$body=$_GET["body"];

It's truncated every time.
Please help ?

djjjozsi

And what is the source where you generate these long variables?
If these long variables comes from a database, you may test the maximum lenght of that database/table field.

Orteil

Okay so :

I'm making a Game Maker text adventure and I'm trying to make it send a transcript of the session to my e-mail upon closing the game.
It goes like this :

execute_shell('http://website.com/transcript.php?body='+transcriptvar,"");

This opens a window in the default web browser. The url is exactly what it's supposed to be (it includes the entire transcript).
So I believe the problem lies in the way PHP deals with urls.

djjjozsi

have you tested with manually inserted URLs ?

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