diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index de0346f68..49aa50623 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ $Id$
 $HeadURL$
 
 2007-02-14 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * libraries/common.lib.php: white page after uploading a 700 Kio BLOB
     * add a warning on main page if mcrypt can't be loaded (bug 1658160)
 
 2007-02-12 Sebastian Mendel <cybot_tm@users.sourceforge.net>
diff --git a/libraries/common.lib.php b/libraries/common.lib.php
index f759e8fe1..08a65fb33 100644
--- a/libraries/common.lib.php
+++ b/libraries/common.lib.php
@@ -1456,7 +1456,15 @@ if (typeof(window.parent) != 'undefined'
             echo '<fieldset class="">' . "\n";
             echo '    <legend>' . $GLOBALS['strSQLQuery'] . ':</legend>';
             echo '    <div>';
-            echo '    ' . $query_base;
+            // when uploading a 700 Kio binary file into a LONGBLOB, 
+            // I get a white page, strlen($query_base) is 2 x 700 Kio
+            // so put a hard limit here (let's say 1000)
+            $max_characters = 1000;
+            if (strlen($query_base) > $max_characters) {
+                echo '    ' . substr($query_base,0,$max_characters) . '[...]';
+            } else {
+                echo '    ' . $query_base;
+            }
 
             //Clean up the end of the PHP
             if (!empty($GLOBALS['show_as_php'])) {