What is the maxTextLength for the HTTP Server?

1

I’m using the LanguageTool HTTP Server on my localhost with the config file.

Inside that file, I can change maxTextLength.

I’ve tried to set it to 50000, but I still can’t validate text with 35000 characters. Why?

For testing, I limited the maxTextLength to 5. That works fine for me.

2

Did you remember to restart the server after making that change? What error message do you get when trying to check a long text?

3

Do I need a LanguageToolPlus account, even if I use a localhost server?

4

“This text is a bit too long” (in original German: “Dieser Text ist etwas zu lang”)

Short textes are no problem.

I want to use LT to validate my WordPress articles. And they have 35,000 and more characters.

5

No. Are you sure the add-on is really talking to your local server? Can you see the server logging the requests?

6

Like described initially, I’m using a config file and I set maxTextLength to 5. That worked fine: I got an error, while testing a longer text than 5 characters.

To be sure to be right, I’ve done this again, and if I configure it to 5, I get an error. If I set it to 50000 I still can’t test a text with more than 10000 character.

7

Now I see. Looks indeed like a bug in the add-on, I will discuss with our developers. Thanks for noticing! (The limit is probably 40,000 for you now.)

8

I’m using the Firefox Add-on to use the server. Do you mean that Add-on?

Can I assist you with any kind of testing? Maybe installing an Add-on for Chrome?

40,000 would be Ok for me.

9

What is the limit for you? The limit with a local server is probably 40,000 (there should be no limit, but that’s a bug in the add-on, so you’ll need to wait for a new add-on release).

10

For me personality, 40,000 would be Ok. But imho, there should not a small limit inside the Add-on of a browser. The server admin should be able to allow much larger texts too.

Transferring 100,000 characters should today not a big problem of the internet.

And after a browser sent 200,000 characters, the server can answer the limit, which he can handle (set by the maxTextLength). The browser can handle this, to not send a longer request again.

Maybe the Add-On can store the received limit somewhere, not to send a longer requests again within 24 h…