well, of course this would happen. About 30 minutes after I posted, I
seem to have found the answer.

Apparently, some browsers, under some conditions, keep the extra space
 I put in when I formated my HTML. I finally looked at the code
generated by the PHP, and saw many extra spaces in my hidden fields.
When I took out all formatting, and made the combination HTML and PHP
code one line long, everything worked fine on all the offending machines.

Incidentally, the problem showed up on WIN95, WIN98, and WINXP
machines, using 5.5 and 6.0 browsers.

This seems to have only been a problem on the hidden fields, for some
reason. Other radio buttons, text fields, etc. seem to be unaffected
by this problem. 

Anyway, thanks for the help. I thought it was probably the firewall
myself, but apparently not?

Thanks,
Dale

--- In [email protected], Michael Roush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- klikmaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a set of forms that appeared to be working fine, but I'm 
> > finding that they do not work properly on some computers. I do not 
> > know if this is because of the PHP/MySQL I'm using, or because of
some 
> > other factor. 
> > 
> > When I submit a form on some machines, it works as expected, and 
> > passes the data along to the next page, and into the MySQL database. 
> > But on other machines, I get a clue as to what's wrong in the address 
> > line. I get lots of extra "%90" characters, and the form does not
work 
> > as expected.
> > 
> > So far, all machines that give a problem are behind a firewall.
> > 
> > Is the problem likely to be my PHP/MySQL, the firewall, or something 
> > stupid I'm doing in my HTML in my PHP pages? I really need help.
> 
> Sounds for all the world like it is something with the firewall.  I
> suspect the firewall may be interfering with certain kinds of
information
> being passed to the form processor.  What information are you
collecting,
> and by what methods?  Are you using a lot of $GET['name'] variables or
> $GLOBAL['name'] variables or things like that?  Firewalls strip out some
> info that is not explicitly defined in the form.  Perhaps if we
could see
> the form and processor, we might be able to pinpoint better what is
going
> on?
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Roush
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
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> -- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web
> 
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