dealing with empty field names in query

2009-02-06 Thread John ORourke
Hi mod_perl list, We're using more and more javascript to do clever things with forms, and I think we broke the Apache2::Request parser, but wanted to check before reporting it as a bug. (and tell me if this should go to the apreq list) With the following request body: i1=drnk4&basket%3A_ne

Re: dealing with empty field names in query

2009-02-06 Thread Phil Carmody
--- On Fri, 2/6/09, John ORourke wrote: > We're using more and more javascript to do clever > things with forms, Lots of people have said that. Probably a majority were wrong. > and I think we broke the Apache2::Request > parser, but wanted to check before reporting it as a bug. > (and tell m

Re: dealing with empty field names in query

2009-02-06 Thread André Warnier
Phil Carmody wrote: --- On Fri, 2/6/09, John ORourke wrote: We're using more and more javascript to do clever things with forms, Lots of people have said that. Probably a majority were wrong. and I think we broke the Apache2::Request parser, but wanted to check before reporting it as a bug

Re: dealing with empty field names in query

2009-02-06 Thread John ORourke
André Warnier wrote: In those name/value pairs, according to HTML 4 at least, the names must begin with a letter [A-Za-z]. The empty string does not do so. Garbage in, garbage out. +1 + : Above the OP is talking about a request "body". Are we sure that this is really a request body, and n