Ben, What version of CF where you using I heard that alot of people had their MISSING FORM FIELD problems disappear after upgrading to CF 5.0
At 10:58 PM 8/29/2002, you wrote: >I had a form on the Grand Canyon NPS site that used to get hundreds of >submissions a day. Periodically, like once every couple weeks, we'd get >a complaint from a user that the form didn't work. The user explained >that they filled out the form and tried to submit it only to receive an >error. > >I'd see the error in the ColdFusion logs. Form fields that absolutely >should have been submitted (such as hidden form fields) simply weren't >submitting. We spent quite a few hours trying to debug it. We even >rewrote the form from scratch twice, breaking it down in to smaller and >smaller multipart forms. We added JavaScript checks, server side checks, >and everything else we could think of. Still, the form fields would not >get submitted. > >You're probably hoping that we came across a solution and that I'm now >about to share that solution. Unfortunately, that is not the case. We >simply gave up. We blamed it on a thousand different things, everything >from AOL's proxy servers, to browser caching, to corporate firewalls. >The truth is we never figured it out. Looking back, the only regret I >have is that I spent so much time trying to fix a problem that I had no >control over. > >Benjamin S. Rogers >http://www.c4.net/ >v.508.240.0051 >f.508.240.0057 > >-----Original Message----- >From: Vishal Narayan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 6:31 AM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: Missing form fields - anyone experienced this error ? > > >Has anyone else experienced these missing form data errors ? These are >not >due to improper bookmarking, or due to browser having JavaScript >disabled. >The form field exists, but on submittting, is somehow not available to >the >next page. These occur randomly, and therefore cannot be a coding >issue. > >We are getting these errors more frequently when the traffic is higher. >This seems to imply some problem with session management, either with CF > >Server or IIS. We are using CF 4.5 SP2 on Win 2K Server, with IIS 5 and >SQL >2000 DB. > >Has anyone experienced similar problems with their websites ? > >Vishal. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
