Really odd form problem

rsayers

I've searched a good bit and can't find any info on this, so here it goes.

I have a site with a few forms, nothing crazy, just a login form that has username and password fields. The syntax is correct for the form and input tags, but when I post, and print_r the $_POST array, I get this:

Array ( [username+AAA-ÿÿÿQ] => rsayers+AAA- [password+AAA-ÿÿÿQ] => test+AAA-AA- [sub+AAA-+AAA-ÿÿÿQ] => Login+AAA-A- )

And on another page on this site, I'm passing variables in the url to pages, when I print_r get, I see this:

Array ( [id_AD0-15] => ) where all I did was pass the variable id with a value of 15.

This only happens when running IE (latest update on xp sp2). Firefox works fine.

This is running php 4.3.6 on solaris x86 with apache.

Any ideas at all? Thanks in advance.

jeffwhansen

I have never heard or seen such a thing. can you provide your code for the 2 pages? Maybe then we can get a better idea what is going on.

rsayers

Originally posted by jeffwhansen
I have never heard or seen such a thing. can you provide your code for the 2 pages? Maybe then we can get a better idea what is going on.

I can, but not until monday... One thing i did try was change the form url to localhost and ran netcat to capture what was being posted by the browser. It is indeed IE that is posting the bad data. It looks like its a bug.

Nate

Originally posted by rsayers
It looks like its a bug.

Shocking... 😉

dalecosp

Sorry to bump this thread, but it might be beneficial to someone.

rsayers, did this resolve for you?

It's sounding a bit like a character encoding problem ... or at least that's what I was searching for when I hit here.

I've got a buggy script that drove me so bonkers I gave it up for like 9 months. It's a multiple choice "quiz" script, and the problem is browser specific. In MSIE and Opera, the thing works; but if you use Mozilla, the thing says "Sorry, the correct answer is foo but you said foo" ...

It appears that the problem is related to character encoding headers not being set on POSTed data. Here's one report (or maybe it's just head-scratching) about it in relation to both IE and Mozilla.

It's tempting to say "forget it, who'll use Mozilla anyway?*" but the Geckos are gaining share ...

*Besides us geeks, of course....

rsayers

Originally posted by dalecosp
Sorry to bump this thread, but it might be beneficial to someone.

rsayers, did this resolve for you?

It's sounding a bit like a character encoding problem ... or at least that's what I was searching for when I hit here.

I've got a buggy script that drove me so bonkers I gave it up for like 9 months. It's a multiple choice "quiz" script, and the problem is browser specific. In MSIE and Opera, the thing works; but if you use Mozilla, the thing says "Sorry, the correct answer is foo but you said foo" ...

It appears that the problem is related to character encoding headers not being set on POSTed data. Here's one report (or maybe it's just head-scratching) about it in relation to both IE and Mozilla.

It's tempting to say "forget it, who'll use Mozilla anyway?*" but the Geckos are gaining share ...

*Besides us geeks, of course....

heh, Im the guy at the company who always suggests not working around IE bugs as long as a site is valid and works in firefox... needless to say not many people here share that opinion with me 🙂

I did get the problem resolved, it turned out I was forgetting to set the enc-type, once I did that it worked like a charm.