Re: POST problems

[Rob Mueller]

I've seen similar weird things happening with some of our users. It's always
IE 5 or IE 5.5 users it seems. It also seems to start 'randomly'. We'll get
emails saying Everything was working great last week, now whenever I click
a button on your site nothing happens. Are far as I can tell, the form is
submitted, but there are no fields in the submitted data. I haven't been
able to reproduce it reliably yet, or work out if only some fields are sent,
or none at all. Has anyone else heard of something like this?

Rob

- Original Message -
From: Corey Durward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 8:52 AM
Subject: POST problems


 Hi all.

 Having a curious problem with the POST command with all CGI scripts on a
 particular server (Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) DAV/1.0.2
PHP/4.0.6
 mod_perl/1.24). Basically, it doesn't work. Form inputs are treated as
 though the inputs were blank. It doesn't appear to be a permissions error
as
 no error reports are issued and nothing appears in the error log. GET
still
 works.

 Everything was working fine up until a few weeks ago. The server admin
 claims nothing has been modified in that time (I'm skeptical) and is
 clueless as to the cause. I've scoured httpd.conf and haven't found
anything
 obvious there that might cause this.

 Fishing for a clue. Any suggestions appreciated.

 Corey.

Re: POST problems

[Anthony Heading]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:22:11AM +0930, Corey Durward wrote:
 Having a curious problem with the POST command with all CGI scripts on a
 particular server (Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.6
 mod_perl/1.24). Basically, it doesn't work. Form inputs are treated as
 though the inputs were blank.

I hit exactly this problem, maybe about six months ago.

 Everything was working fine up until a few weeks ago. The server admin
 claims nothing has been modified in that time (I'm skeptical) and is
 clueless as to the cause.

In my case, I found it could be triggered by some mod_perl scripts;
running those left each Apache in a confused state where it lost all
cgi POST params.  I was vaguely interested to hunt it down, enough
to collect lots of system call traces and so on, but then pressure of
time led me just to try upgrading everything - to mod_perl 1.26 on
perl 5.6.1 and apache 1.26 or whatever.  And the problem went away.

Anthony


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