fpCGI failure, part 2

[Bruce Easton]

Fairlight wrote Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:05 PM:
> Bruce Easton took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
[..]
> > OneGate optionally
> > supports saving textarea output into separate files instead of in
> > the XML output. (That I guess could be used for those really big
> > blobs? - I wouldn't know - I'm fpblobophobic.)
>
> With textareas that are defined -as- TEXTAREA, the contents of said field
> are stored into a separate file, rather than just put into the XML data
> stream (and thus a field) as with a normal field.
>
> At that point, you have a file on disk with the contents of the field,
> and you have the path to that file in fP.  What would be the advantage to
> trying to cram something into a blob?  [..]
> mark->
> --

I should have said 'memo', not blob, but I was thinking of someone maybe
using the text-as-file textarea option in OG for a filepro memo field in
filepro (which I don't use).

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.