multipart/form and blank variables

[spinlizard]

I have an HTML form which I am using to upload pictures to my website. The form tag looks like this:

<form name="create_advert" action="place_advert.php" method="post" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">

and it also contains some text fields such as picture name etc.

At home I can connect and upload pics from my (win98/IE4) with no problem - the form and php script which processes it work fine. The pic is uploaded and the text field variables are written to my database.

But, when I try to do this from my pc at work (also win98/IE4), all the variables that normally hold the values from the text fields on the form are empty.

Would this be because at work I am accessing the web via a proxy server and probably through a firewall? All my other forms (which don't involve any file uploads work ok) on the pc at work so it seems to be related to the multipart form.

Being a newbie at this I am very confused and would really appreciate any advice from anyone.

Many thanks.

[pdaoust]

hmmmmmmmmm... you're right in suspecting it has something to do with the differences in computers, and I think your company's proxy/firewall would probably have something to do with it. But before you come to that conclusion, see if you can download another browser (check out Opera http://www.opera.com if you want a browser whose installer won't take hours to download) and try the pages through that browser. If you're able to do it this time, I think the problem lies somewhere other than the proxy/firewall.

[spinlizard]

I downloaded and tried Opera and another browser and my script worked! I guess I had a buggy IE4.

Many many thanks for your advice.
🙂

[pdaoust]

no prob! I'm just amazed that it was that easy. 😉