Am 07.09.2007 um 16:44 schrieb Christopher H. Laco:
Josef Chladek wrote:
hi list,
I have a strange problem, that occurs for some clients, for most
not: we
have a form, that is setup by javascript dynamically (form
consits of
one input field, one textarea and 2 hidden fields)
...
form.setAttribute('action','/cat/postings/post_comment');
form.setAttribute('id','input_form');
form.setAttribute('name','input_form');
form.setAttribute('method','post');
form.setAttribute('enctype','multipart/form-data');
form.setAttribute('accept-charset','utf-8');
form.setAttribute('onSubmit', 'return check(' + parent + ')');
...
as said, most of the time it works without a problem, but sometimes I
get the following error:
[error] Caught exception in engine "Wrong Content-Length value:
xxx at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Catalyst.pm line 1636"
which is thrown from Enigne.pm
# paranoia against wrong Content-Length header
my $remaining = $length - $self->read_position;
if ( $remaining > 0 ) {
$self->finalize_read($c);
Catalyst::Exception->throw(
"Wrong Content-Length value: $length" );
}
from debugging I found out, that $remaining in fact is $length, so it
seems, that nothing was read from the post body
HTTP::Body is version 0.9, I changed multipart/form-data to
application/x-www-form-urlencoded, still no effect.
to see the form, you have to be logged in, which works fine, I can
identify the user from the session, so cookie etc. working fine
any clue what could happen here?
thanks
josef
If the Content-Length really is 0, I've found one thing over the years
that does it. Older Mozilla/Netscape versions, usually CompuServe
branded versions, would not POST and content of a form if
javascript set
the forms style to display:none or hidden in CSS.
In my case, if was the usual tinkerage of hiding the form and
displaying
a "Now processing" image when a user clicked the Submit button.
To this day, I still get the occasional Content-Length: 0 from these
browsers...about 5 a week.
Just a thought.
hmm, I dumped req->headers and this happens for IE7, IE6 and FF2.x,
so not the oldest browsers.
I temp. switched to method get now, think that will work.
any hints on how I could get closer to the problem, where should I
put debug code, somewhere in Engine.pm or Catalyst.pm?
thanks
josef
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