Well, the only thing that comes from the client side is GET, POST, or COOKIE data. All the browsers should handle GET and POST data the same, so I doubt that's it. Is the work computer your on accepting cookies? Are values from cookies or sessions used anywhere in the SQL in question?
---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 3:20 PM Subject: [PHP] Strange intermittant errors > Hi, > > I am developing a website in PHP that stores all its information in a MySQL > database. The webserver is a FreeBSD box running Apache with pretty much all > extensions installed (its owned by a friend of mine who works for an ISP. He > is competant at setting this sort of box up, so I am confident its all > installed correctly). > > Now, the site works fine 100% of the time when I visit it from home (Amiga > 4000, with any of these browsers: AWeb, IBrowse and Voyager), but when I > visit from my work computer (IE 6, Windows 98 SE, going through an NT4 server > with Microsoft Web Proxy 2.0), lots of MySQL errors appear, that go away > after a refresh or two! They happen on pretty much ANY page that accesses > MySQL, and its an intermittant problem. > > It even occurs on pages where the mysql query is a hardcoded string, so it is > not related to realtime-generated queries. > > Now, 2 or 3 friends have visited the site with linux boxes and windows, using > Opera, Mozilla and IE, and don't get any MySQL errors, so it only seems to be > when I visit from work! I also tried from a couple of my colleagues machines > today (same web proxy, some IE 5.5, some IE6), and they didn't get any, so > they only seem to occur when i visit from this one machine! > > This is confusing the hell out of me because PHP and MySQL is all server side, > and surely the final HTML served should be the same no matter where I visit > from! > > This is the type of error that I get from my work machine: > > Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result > resource in /home/httpd/www.videobrewery.com/shownews.php on line 40 > > So it appears the original mysql_query() is failing. What could be causing > that from the client end?! > > Cheers, > Pete > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php