ID: 22427
Comment by: admin at ensifex dot nl
Reported By: jroland at uow dot edu dot au
Status: No Feedback
Bug Type: *General Issues
Operating System: Windows XP / 2000
PHP Version: 4.2.3
New Comment:
After updating from 4.3.7 to 4.3.8 i'm loosing
POST data. If i create a form with normal text fields and not to much
input data there doesn't seem to be a problem.
If i use <textarea> with a text larger 985 characters the post data is
not send.
Used this script to test:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="index.php" method="post">
<textarea name="text"></textarea>
<input type="submit"
</form>
<?
print_r($_POST);
?>
</body>
</html>
if i add 'enctype="multipart/form-data"' to the form. All post data is
send.
php version : 4.3.8
os: OpenBSD 3.5-current
apache: 1.3.29
Previous Comments:
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[2004-07-30 22:11:28] gary at garyslittlecompany dot com
I too am experiencing what has been described in the this submission.
I think I have isolated it to php on windows. I summarize it thus
because I have an xp, w2k3 and wme servers that experience the same
problem.
Yes I have used the latest version as of today 4.3.9 build date
7/30/04.
I have scripts that have alot of post data, a table full of input
objects, the table can be quite large. If I exceed a certain amount (I
know it is not an arbitrary size, but I don't know what the size is, but
I can duplicate it). Below are my scripts.
<?php
print '<html><head></head><body><form name = "pageform" action =
"post.php" method = "post"><table>';
for ($l = 0; $l < 100; ++$l)
{
print "<tr><td>First Name</td><td><input type = \"text\", name =
\"firstname[$l]\" /></td>\r\n";
print "<td>Last Name</td><td><input type = \"text\", name =
\"lastname[$l]\" /></td>\r\n";
print "<td>City</td><td><input type = \"text\", name = \"city[$l]\"
/></td>\r\n";
print "<td>State</td><td><input type = \"text\", name = \"state[$l]\"
/></td></tr>\r\n";
}
print '</table><input type = "submit" value =
"submit"/></form></body></html>';
?>
This simply provides my form with a lot of input elements in my html.
When submitted it will call the following script
<?php
print getenv('CONTENT_LENGTH');
print "$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA<br>";
print_r($_POST);
?>
Here is the output
6559
Array ( )
Now if I change my script (action = "cgi-bin\post.ext") to call the
following c compiled script...
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
main()
{
char *endptr;
int i;
double contentlength;
char buff[10000];
char a,b;
const char *len1 = getenv("CONTENT_LENGTH");
contentlength=strtol(len1, &endptr, 10);
fread(buff, contentlength, 1, stdin);
printf("Content-type: text/html\n\n%s",buff);
}
to do the same thing essentially I will get the following
5B95%5D=&lastname%5B95%5D=&city%5B95%5D=&state%5B95%5D=&firstname%5B96%5D=&lastname%5B96%5D=&city%5B96%5D=&state%5B96%5D=&firstname%5B97%5D=&lastname%5B97%5D=&city%5B97%5D=&state%5B97%5D=&firstname%5B98%5D=&lastname%5B98%5D=&city%5B98%5D=&state%5B98%5D=&firstname%5B99%5D=&lastname%5B99%5D=&city%5B99%5D=&state%5B99%5D=
This is just a portion of the data that I get, it happens to be the
last of the output do demonstrate that I do get the last of the input
elements, notice city%5b99%5d, this is the 99th city element, the loop
goes from 0-99.
Now if you reduce the loop to be 0-5 for example
(for ($l = 0; $l < 5; ++$l)) I get the following output when I use the
first script (action = "post.php").
309firstname%5B0%5D=&lastname%5B0%5D=&city%5B0%5D=&state%5B0%5D=&firstname%5B1%5D=&lastname%5B1%5D=&city%5B1%5D=&state%5B1%5D=&firstname%5B2%5D=&lastname%5B2%5D=&city%5B2%5D=&state%5B2%5D=&firstname%5B3%5D=&lastname%5B3%5D=&city%5B3%5D=&state%5B3%5D=&firstname%5B4%5D=&lastname%5B4%5D=&city%5B4%5D=&state%5B4%5D=
Array ( [firstname] => Array ( [0] => [1] => [2] => [3] => [4] => )
[lastname] => Array ( [0] => [1] => [2] => [3] => [4] => ) [city] =>
Array ( [0] => [1] => [2] => [3] => [4] => ) [state] => Array ( [0] =>
[1] => [2] => [3] => [4] => ) )
The first part is the raw post data, the last is the $_POST variable.
I did the c compiled script, simply to rule out my webserver (apache
1.3.27).
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[2004-07-17 17:51:19] c dot neise at gmx dot de
I have also the first of these problems.
The script below reproduces the bug.
When entering a small amount of data, the data is displayed.
With a large amount of data (e.g. a screen full of letters pasted into
the text area) the data is lost.
I am using gentoo linux, php 4.3.8 and Apache 2.0.50.
If anything is missing please let me know.
Best regards,
Christian Neise.
<html>
<body>
<form method="POST">
<textarea name="test">
<?php echo $_POST['test']; ?>
</textarea>
<hr><input type="submit" name="dummy"><hr>
<pre>
<?php print_r($_POST); ?>
</pre>
</body>
</html>
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[2004-02-20 08:07:17] vincentfinet at hotmail dot com
Hi,
Don't know if it helps but I found out that informations about the file
uploaded from a form using "multipart/form-data" like in the example
below is not in the $_POST array but in the $_FILES array
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post"
action="WinnyReader.php">
<input type="file" name="fWinnyFile" size="40" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>
After hitting the submit button, the second script (in my example,
"WinnyReader.php") will look for informations about the file in
$_FILES["fWinnyFile"] (and not in $_POST["fWinnyFile"] even if the
method of the form is POST!!).
That will do something like this:
if (isset($_FILES["fWinnyFile"]))
{
$arWinnyFile = $_FILES["fWinnyFile"];
echo "name : " . $arWinnyFile["name"] . "<br />\n";
echo "type : " . $arWinnyFile["type"] . "<br />\n";
echo "tmp_name : " . $arWinnyFile["tmp_name"] . "<br />\n";
echo "error : " . $arWinnyFile["error"] . "<br />\n";
echo "size : " . $arWinnyFile["size"] . "<br />\n";
$stFilename = $arWinnyFile["tmp_name"];
}
else
{
...
}
Hope this helps!
Vincent FINET
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[2003-12-27 20:28:46] ascj20 at dsl dot pipex dot net
On WinXP SP1 / Apache 1.3.27 / PHP 4.2.2(module) / testing locally with
IE6 SP1
This bug has changed topic it seems, but on the original matter I have
it too - tiny effective limits with $_POST and $_FILES.
By echoing getenv(CONTENT_LENGTH) I find a limit of 488 bytes from
text-only form data (above which $_POST returns empty). Using HTTP
upload by POST the cutoff is about 2.5k for a gif file. (Limit is
higher when not using SSL but I guess that is to be expected?)
I hope this is a useful contribution to a bug that seems to be taxing a
lot of folks.
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[2003-06-05 08:20:19] webmaster at dtshowtime dot lu dot eu dot org
I can also reproduce this problem with PHP 4.3.2.
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