ID: 22427
Comment by: celtic at sairyx dot org
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:
I'm experiencing the same problem.
Server's running Apache 2 on a Windows Server 2003 machine.
IE 6.0, Windows XP SP 2, and about 90% of the time, POST data never
reaches my PHP script.
Firefox 1.5 in the same conditions, and it runs perfectly.
It does seem suspiciously like an IE bug, but this seems too big to be
a coincidence that IE never sends POST data to only these PHP
applications.
Previous Comments:
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[2006-10-18 08:15:50] thisisrobg at gmail dot com
Not sure if it exactly the same problem but POST related.
- PHP5.2.0RC6-dev
- Apache 2.2.3
- IE6
Code
<form name="processing" method="POST" action="sqlprocess.php">
SQL : <input type="text" name="sqlstring" /><br>
SQL2 : <input type="text" name="sqlstring2" /><br>
SQL3 : <input type="text" name="sqlstring3" />
<input type="submit" value="SUBMIT"/>
</form>
/*sqlprocess.php */
$query = $_REQUEST["sqlstring"];
$query2 = $_REQUEST["sqlstring2"];
$query3 = $_REQUEST["sqlstring3"];
print "Query: " . $query . "<br>";
print "Query2: " . $query2 . "<br>";
print "Query3: " . $query3 . "<br>";
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Problem: None of the field show up when request.
Experiments
1. Change form method to GET and it work perfectly.
2. Add/Remove fields make no different, still get nothing.
3. Change $_REQUEST to $_POST or $HTTP_POST_VARS make no different,
still get nothing.
4. Change browser to Firefox 2.0b1 and it works fine.
5. Change browser to Opera 9.01 builds 8552 and it works fine.
Expecting the problem to be incompatibility between PHP5.2 and IE6.
I was using PHP5.1.6 and IIS and POST method works.
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[2006-10-07 04:29:05] zero at tilt dot eu dot org
Same prob, PHP5 in cgi, Apache and env REQUEST_METHOD is POST, there is
a content length, but $_POST is empty...
This is not a prob with my browser. Tested with Opera 9 and Firefox
1.5. And oh, no prob with an other server :/
Weird.
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[2006-09-14 13:06:50] emil dot hall at gamereactor dot se
We must be talking about several different bugs here. But the bug where
some fields are missing from $_POST is NOT a PHP bug, it's all Internet
Explorer's fault. This HTML reproduces the bug in IE6:
<form method="post" action="whatever" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="text" name="field1" value="1">
<input type="text" name="field2" value="2
">
<input type="checkbox" name="field3" value="3">
<input type="submit">
</form>
The weird character in the second input field will mess up IE's submit.
Characters that confuse IE include:
three-dots-as-one-char
aka chr(133)
the long dash aka chr(150)
and the double quotation mark aka chr(147)
All very common when you copy&paste from MS Word, just like Egil said.
A packet sniffer reveals the broken POST request: (some irrelevant
headers have been removed)
POST /whatever HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=---------------7d6399243401fe
field1"
1
---------------7d6399243401fe
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field2"
2.
---------------7d6399243401fe--
Submit the same form with Firefox and the difference is obvious:
POST /whatever HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=------------------41184676334
------------------41184676334
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field1"
1
------------------41184676334
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field2"
2.
------------------41184676334--
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[2006-08-29 18:16:32] egil at egil dot net
Sorry for flooding this one, but I have noticed something else
that I think is important here. I am not always getting this
bug with IE6 either, it depends on the text I submit into one
of my textarea or text fields. If one of them containts a
double quotation mark of the type you get if you press shift-2
within Word (not the standard double quotation mark, which
works fine) and copy/paste the text into a textarea or
textfield.
Please contact me if you need a better explaination and/or
testdata.
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[2006-08-29 18:04:31] egil at egil dot net
Forgot to mention that I am having this problem with PHP 5.1.4
running on FreeBSD and Apache 1.3.34.
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