>>>>> "Perrin" == Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Perrin> On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 17:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> A simple $cgi->delete('ipaddress') to delete the value when I create
>> the field has done the trick. Thanks very much to the both of you.
Perrin> I'm glad to hear that worked, but it's still worrisome that you were
Perrin> seeing data leak between different users. The form widgets are only
Perrin> supposed to be sticky for values submitted on the current request. It
Perrin> indicates either a bug in the way CGI.pm clears its variables under
Perrin> mod_perl or a bug in your script that could surface again later.
OK, throwing my hat into the ring here...
maybe *I* wasn't hallucinating then. I just had a recent
fix to a longstanding bug in the picture section of my website...
I had been using CGI.pm (through Template::Plugin::CGI), and was
mystified because *occasionally* the wrong picture would show, but a
simple reload fixed it.
I fixed the bug by avoiding CGI.pm, and using Apache::Template's
"param" variable directly instead.
So maybe there is a CGI.pm bug with regarding to clearing out the
values in a mod_perl environment. I wonder how simple of a test we
can concoct to determine that?
Lincoln, are you listening?
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