SSL Vars not passed

rogair

Under SSL I am having scripts that seem to sometimes pass variables. It's not consistant. Sometimes the variables are passed, other times they are not. It only happens under SSL and I believe it is isolated to IE 6.0 varieties. Anyone else experience this and have a solution. It's killing me.

Another point of info. When I first submit the form the variables are not passed, but if I click the back button and submit again then it works. I'm quite confused.

Thanks,
Roger

coditoergosum

You need to provide some more info. Are you using post or get method? What does your script do with it after you post/get the script? What sort of debugging have you done? Have you tried a print_r($POST) (or print_r($GET), whichever you're using) to see what data you're getting?

I highly doubt it's ssl that's hosing things. SSL simply encrypts the data stream, nothing more, nothing less.

rogair

Post method
Register_Globals is on

print_r($_Post['varname'])

yields blanks when the vars are not passed. Works when the vars work.

If it fails, clicking Refresh will generally make it work. (Not always, sometimes I have to click refresh more than once). Once it works I can go through the process repeatedly without error (usually).

If I close the browser, and start a new browser session it goes back to not working (usually).

Settings for PHP are the same under SSL as for non-SSL. This does not occur anywhere non-SSL.

Roger

coditoergosum

This works: print_r($Post['varname']) ?! I don't see how that could possibly work, because it should be print_r($POST) ... $_Post is not valid, unless you are specifically using it somewhere, and print_r prints out the array so you shouldn't be passing a varname to it.

Again, you need to provide some more of the specifics. For example:
1) The HTML form POSTs 2 vars called 'foo' and 'bar'
2) The php script it posts to calls the vars by their global name $foo and $bar and then attempts to insert the vars into a database.

It almost sounds like you might be assigning the value to a cookie, or to a session var, which might explain why the var isn't available on the first load but is available on subsequent loads. If that's the case you HAVE to include this detail if you want to get any help. We're not mind readers.

rogair

using print_r($_POST) with no varname returns "Array".

print_r($_POST['varname']) prints the variable value when the error does not occur.

There are about 20 different variables affected. No session variables or cookies are affected. These pass fine. It's only the HTTP Post variables that are affected.

This only seems to occur with IE, and only certain versions. I have never been able to make it happen in Netscape.

I've had the case where it comes up properly the first time, but when I refresh it fails the second time.

This is a system that has been in production for a couple of years, and has only recently been showing this behavior.

Go to:
http://www.audiblefaith.com/products/?product_ID=cd000058

Click Order now and follow through to the billing page. If you do this with IE 6.0 you may see the result I am referring to.

I am trying to provide as much info as I can, this is just such a bizarre thing I am not sure what information is needed to diagnose it.