ID: 22427
Comment by: lars at renoz dot dk
Reported By: jroland at uow dot edu dot au
Status: No Feedback
Bug Type: *General Issues
Operating System: Windows XP / 2000
PHP Version: 4.2.3
New Comment:
Same problem here - $_POST is randomly incomplete or empty.
I have only seen this with IE - from version 6 to 8.
tcpdump shows a bit more of the story:
user sends:
POST /bla.php?id=bla
...
Content-Length: 80
but there is no data in that packet.
A bit later Apache reaches timeout, and closes the connection. At this
point it send a 503 error to the user, but executes PHP with the
incomplete post.
After the user received the 503 error - the browser actually sends a
packet with the missing post data. Strange and clearly a browser bug. It
should be noted that the post is so small that there is plenty of room
in the first packet.
Now - the strange part is - why is PHP being executed? And why is PHP
allowing it self to be executed. Content-Length is clearly invalid, and
the conntection is closed (and PHP is setup to ignore aborted requests
(ignore_user_abort is off).
Previous Comments:
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[2010-01-27 20:44:34] pierre at greywacke dot co dot za
hi, i forgot to add the form submitted. i believe this could be in ie,
but why? how can i prevent this from happening?
<form name="contact" method="POST" action="action.php"
enctype="multipart/form-data" id="contact" onSubmit="return
Validatecontact(this);">
using php 5.2.9 - believe the problem to be client browser side as
reported in other comments.
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[2010-01-27 19:50:14] pierre at greywacke dot co dot za
I am also experiencing loss of form fields, albeit randomly. is there
not a function to reload/refresh the data, i'm sure i've seen one albeit
deprecated.
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[2009-11-03 07:57:31] medhat dot s at scs-net dot org
I have the same problem!
sometimes, all post variables disappear although that I use a normal
form with normal text inputs & normal data size. no textareas and no
"multiform" tag in the form
php version : 5.1.6 apache webserver on Linux server.
I'm still unable to fix it!
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[2009-02-05 23:38:04] neal dot pressley at yahoo dot com
Please ignore the above comments. changing the case did not fix the
problem. Its just irratic. it works some time, it does not work some
time. The problem with both post and get. I have a checkbox and submit
button in the form. If I do not check the checkbox and just submit the
button, it works but if I use check and enter submit, it does not work.
I moved the related part of the code from the big php file and tried to
isolate the problem. Surprisingly it works perfectly as a small file but
in the big php which has few more forms and tables, it does not work.
=====
<?php
echo "<pre>";
echo "post is";
print_r($_POST);
echo "get is";
print_r($_GET);
echo "request is";
print_r($_REQUEST);
echo "let us check HTTP_POST_VARS";
print_r($HTTP_POST_VARS);
echo "</pre>";
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"
href="../../stylesheet.css">
<title>Managing URL to StartContext Mapping </title>
</head>
<body style="margin: 0px;" onLoad="preloader();">
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="test1.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="true">
<input type="checkbox" name="dboptions" class="radio">Delete existing
mappings from the database before loading the data from the CSV File.
<input type="submit" name="submit" class="buttons" value="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
===============
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[2009-02-05 18:49:59] neal dot pressley at yahoo dot com
I was facing the same problem. I had a html form with php scripts in
which I was submitting radio buttons or checkboxes. When I post the
form, PHP was not finding any post parameters. it was random, some time
it was working and some time not. Even I tried with Get, it worked some
time and some time not. Then I change ENCTYPE from uppercase to
lowercase and it started working prefectly
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="ManageMapping.php"
method="POST">
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