[thelist] bug in ie/nt with post method of form?

[Raymond Camden]

To add fuel to the fire, I noticed on Netscape (4.x), that if you have a
file upload field, and if you have form fields _AFTER_ that field, and if
you do NOT upload a file, the other form fields don't get passed.

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Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia

Email    : jedimaster at macromedia.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of matthew garrett
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 2:38 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] bug in ie/nt with post method of form?
>
>
> I see that you are uploading a file, and I recently noticed that IE 5 Mac
> does odd things when submitting an enctype="multipart/form-data" form.
> Example: when passing a hidden field or radio button, it would at
> least add
> white-space to the values. Didn't check to see what else it was
> doing, just
> trimmed the variables and that solved my particular problem.
>
> You can take that filefield out, change the enctype and see what happens,
> which i 9blindly) bet will fix it - but then you still need to upload the
> file. I guess I don't have an answer, just a first step in de-bugging...
>
> matt
>
> > From: ".jeff" <jeff at members.evolt.org>
>
> > hey,
> >
> > not usually much of a question asker, more of a contributor, but i'm up
> > against a deadline and don't have time to research this
> happening elsewhere
> > although i swear i've heard of it.
> >
> > got the following browser:
> >
> > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
> >
> > submitting a form in one of our administrative applications.  the weird
> > thing is that it seems to be doubling up the form field values
> on some (but
> > not all of the fields.