ID: 22427
Comment by: emil dot hall at gamereactor dot se
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:
We must be talking about several different bugs here. But the bug where
some fields are missing from $_POST is NOT a PHP bug, it's all Internet
Explorer's fault. This HTML reproduces the bug in IE6:
<form method="post" action="whatever" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="text" name="field1" value="1">
<input type="text" name="field2" value="2
">
<input type="checkbox" name="field3" value="3">
<input type="submit">
</form>
The weird character in the second input field will mess up IE's submit.
Characters that confuse IE include:
three-dots-as-one-char
aka chr(133)
the long dash aka chr(150)
and the double quotation mark aka chr(147)
All very common when you copy&paste from MS Word, just like Egil said.
A packet sniffer reveals the broken POST request: (some irrelevant
headers have been removed)
POST /whatever HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=---------------7d6399243401fe
field1"
1
---------------7d6399243401fe
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field2"
2.
---------------7d6399243401fe--
Submit the same form with Firefox and the difference is obvious:
POST /whatever HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=------------------41184676334
------------------41184676334
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field1"
1
------------------41184676334
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field2"
2.
------------------41184676334--
Previous Comments:
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[2006-08-29 18:16:32] egil at egil dot net
Sorry for flooding this one, but I have noticed something else
that I think is important here. I am not always getting this
bug with IE6 either, it depends on the text I submit into one
of my textarea or text fields. If one of them containts a
double quotation mark of the type you get if you press shift-2
within Word (not the standard double quotation mark, which
works fine) and copy/paste the text into a textarea or
textfield.
Please contact me if you need a better explaination and/or
testdata.
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[2006-08-29 18:04:31] egil at egil dot net
Forgot to mention that I am having this problem with PHP 5.1.4
running on FreeBSD and Apache 1.3.34.
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[2006-08-29 17:57:53] egil at egil dot net
I am also getting the exact same problem as "rossi at nelis
dot fr" and "gregory dot boyer at limbas dot com". I am not
able to reproduce this problem in other browsers than IE6
posting using multipart/form-data as enctype.
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[2006-08-11 15:43:05] gregory dot boyer at limbas dot com
we experience the same trouble as "rossi at nelis dot fr"
A form is send with POST method and with enctype multipart/form-data,
in the target page the first field is missing. It is only occuring in
IE6.0, and only with the enctype
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[2006-06-07 13:32:25] rossi at nelis dot fr
I confirm to you that i reproduce this problem with PHP5.
The first field (TextArea) is missing when i read $_POST with
var_dump($_POST).
This bug exists only when i'm using Internet Explorer (6.0 for my
version), not with Firefox 1.5.
I'm searching for a solution.
May be i have to create 2 dummy hidden fields :(:(
Please send me an email if you find the solution.
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