Is there a Character limit on form Post method?

Question

I have a form (mocked up in the snippet with test data for public consumption) and users will fill it out and hit "submit" which generates an email (we're using Outlook if that matters).

I'm running into an issue where, if some of the longer responses are chosen from the drop down menus, it cuts off the bottom of email (I think).

The "real world" html is on another network and I can't transfer it easily - but in the re-creation/snippet below, it will generate the email if the "long" response is chosen for up the 6 or 7th question. Any more than that it just doesn't launch Outlook and build the email, as if I have hit a limit of some kind.

In the "real world" version, the email WILL build....but it cuts off information from the bottom of the email.

This is just a local html file I use for office productivity - i.e. no server.

<form style="width:300px" id="emailform" action="mailto:test@email.com?subject=TestSubject" method="post" enctype="text/plain">


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  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Generate Email">

</form>

This should help - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2364840/what-is-the-size-limit-of-a-post-request — Adam, Sep 26 '18 at 18:04
To answer, YES there is a POST limit which is set at the server level often times in the `post_max_size` parameter. Check this for more details: http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.post-max-size — Adam, Sep 26 '18 at 18:06
Thanks @Adam. I had read that...but the accepted answer "It depends on a server configuration" and offers a server side configuration...which I do not have. I'm pretty new to this - so maybe I'm missing the piece that I could use in that response? — kroy2008, Sep 26 '18 at 18:07
On second thought, if you aren't getting any server level errors when you submit the form, it might not be related to `post_max_size` as PHP will usually bark at you when one of the .ini settings thresholds are reached. How many characters are we talking, roughly, in the email? — Adam, Sep 26 '18 at 18:09
EDIT: Cut off is exactly 1469 characters...one more and it cuts off — kroy2008, Sep 26 '18 at 18:38
@Poul Bak html fixed, but I don't think this affects the issue at hand? — kroy2008, Sep 26 '18 at 19:08

Is there a Character limit on form Post method?

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