Question

I’m working on a Codeigniter application that can be accessed via Smartphones. The thing is that, at least for my carrier, the application won’t load because of a “server” error (according to a 5.0 Blackberry Browser, POST data sent too big or GET data received too big, and a 6.0 Blackberry Browser, “The requested URL could not be retrieved – sorry, the file you’re trying to upload or download is too large”). The strange thing is that, when connected to a WiFi network, the site starts working again flawlessly.

I was wondering if I could mesure the PHP POST data sent and received in MB / KB, so I can slim it down as much as I can.

I don’t know if this is a Codeigniter issue, or a carrier issue, or both, because the error appears only when I pass data via the URL. For example

example.com/codeigniter/main – OK
example.com/codeigniter/main/post/131 – boom, dead.

Being “codeigniter/” the application, “main/” the controller, “post/” the method and 131 the value.

I’m using Codeigniter Reactor 2.0.1, BTW.

Answer 1

If you are trying to measure the size of the request, the $_SERVER superglobal has a property for this.

  $size = (int)$_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'];

Submit your post to an endpoint with this code and echo it’s value.

This will assign the value of the Content-length HTTP header to $size if the request was sent via the POST method.