problem with a form in IE 7
We are running Zope 2.9.8 on Macintosh OS X Server 10.5.5 behind Apache 2.x. I am having a problem when trying to submit one of my forms in IE 7. This only happens on Windows XP and it only started happening recently (we think in the past week). The form contains several select boxes. When the user selects a value from one of the select boxes, it submits the form and processes the selection. The error I receive is an IE error that says: "Internet Explorer Cannot Display the Webpage". And for some reason, all of my selectbox values are showing in the URL as parameters. This is not supposed to happen. If I remove the parameters from the URL line and press enter, it works fine. I have another page that works similar to this one (with multiple select boxes that submit the form upon selection), that doesn't experience the same problem. I even changed my form action to go to a plain html page, and it still tries to pass all of my form variables in the URL string. I went to Microsoft's trouble shooting page for this error. I've tried deleting my browser history, clearing out any cached items, and also re-starting IE without "Add-Ons". The server has been restarted as well. None of these options have resolved the issue. Neither the Apache log nor the Zope error log shows these errors. Has anyone encountered this problem? If so, what have you done to resolve the issue?
Quoting C <baiewola@gmail.com>:
We are running Zope 2.9.8 on Macintosh OS X Server 10.5.5 behind Apache 2.x.
I am having a problem when trying to submit one of my forms in IE 7. This only happens on Windows XP and it only started happening recently (we think in the past week).
The form contains several select boxes. When the user selects a value from one of the select boxes, it submits the form and processes the selection. The error I receive is an IE error that says: "Internet Explorer Cannot Display the Webpage". And for some reason, all of my selectbox values are showing in the URL as parameters. This is not supposed to happen. If I remove the parameters from the URL line and press enter, it works fine.
I have another page that works similar to this one (with multiple select boxes that submit the form upon selection), that doesn't experience the same problem.
I even changed my form action to go to a plain html page, and it still tries to pass all of my form variables in the URL string.
I went to Microsoft's trouble shooting page for this error. I've tried deleting my browser history, clearing out any cached items, and also re-starting IE without "Add-Ons". The server has been restarted as well. None of these options have resolved the issue.
Neither the Apache log nor the Zope error log shows these errors.
Has anyone encountered this problem? If so, what have you done to resolve the issue?
Our uses are recommended to use Firefox, all these sorts of problems go away very quickly. Regards Garry
It turns out that Internet Explorer doesn't like it when you pass more than 141 form variables with a single submit. Our site collects employment applications and once we hit 142 applications the page broke for anyone using IE7 on XP. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:17 AM, C <baiewola@gmail.com> wrote:
We are running Zope 2.9.8 on Macintosh OS X Server 10.5.5 behind Apache 2.x.
I am having a problem when trying to submit one of my forms in IE 7. This only happens on Windows XP and it only started happening recently (we think in the past week).
The form contains several select boxes. When the user selects a value from one of the select boxes, it submits the form and processes the selection. The error I receive is an IE error that says: "Internet Explorer Cannot Display the Webpage". And for some reason, all of my selectbox values are showing in the URL as parameters. This is not supposed to happen. If I remove the parameters from the URL line and press enter, it works fine.
I have another page that works similar to this one (with multiple select boxes that submit the form upon selection), that doesn't experience the same problem.
I even changed my form action to go to a plain html page, and it still tries to pass all of my form variables in the URL string.
I went to Microsoft's trouble shooting page for this error. I've tried deleting my browser history, clearing out any cached items, and also re-starting IE without "Add-Ons". The server has been restarted as well. None of these options have resolved the issue.
Neither the Apache log nor the Zope error log shows these errors.
Has anyone encountered this problem? If so, what have you done to resolve the issue?
Has nothing to do with Zope but... Use Firefox to debug it and you'll get to see the error. put method="post" on form tag and the submission won't be visible in the URL. 2008/12/11 C <baiewola@gmail.com>:
We are running Zope 2.9.8 on Macintosh OS X Server 10.5.5 behind Apache 2.x.
I am having a problem when trying to submit one of my forms in IE 7. This only happens on Windows XP and it only started happening recently (we think in the past week).
The form contains several select boxes. When the user selects a value from one of the select boxes, it submits the form and processes the selection. The error I receive is an IE error that says: "Internet Explorer Cannot Display the Webpage". And for some reason, all of my selectbox values are showing in the URL as parameters. This is not supposed to happen. If I remove the parameters from the URL line and press enter, it works fine.
I have another page that works similar to this one (with multiple select boxes that submit the form upon selection), that doesn't experience the same problem.
I even changed my form action to go to a plain html page, and it still tries to pass all of my form variables in the URL string.
I went to Microsoft's trouble shooting page for this error. I've tried deleting my browser history, clearing out any cached items, and also re-starting IE without "Add-Ons". The server has been restarted as well. None of these options have resolved the issue.
Neither the Apache log nor the Zope error log shows these errors. Has anyone encountered this problem? If so, what have you done to resolve the issue? _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
-- Peter Bengtsson, work www.fry-it.com home www.peterbe.com hobby www.issuetrackerproduct.com
Quoting Peter Bengtsson <peterbe@gmail.com>:
Has nothing to do with Zope but... Use Firefox to debug it and you'll get to see the error. put method="post" on form tag and the submission won't be visible in the URL. I've had this happen with method=get in the past. Changing to post fixed it but... May be worth checking zope.conf:
Directive: http-header-max-length # # Description: # Maximum number of bytes allowed within a HTTP request header. The request # is discarded and considered as a DoS attack if the header size exceeds # this limit. # # Default: 8192 # # Example: # # http-header-max-length 16384 Regards Garry
2008/12/11 C <baiewola@gmail.com>:
We are running Zope 2.9.8 on Macintosh OS X Server 10.5.5 behind Apache 2.x.
I am having a problem when trying to submit one of my forms in IE 7. This only happens on Windows XP and it only started happening recently (we think in the past week).
The form contains several select boxes. When the user selects a value from one of the select boxes, it submits the form and processes the selection. The error I receive is an IE error that says: "Internet Explorer Cannot Display the Webpage". And for some reason, all of my selectbox values are showing in the URL as parameters. This is not supposed to happen. If I remove the parameters from the URL line and press enter, it works fine.
I have another page that works similar to this one (with multiple select boxes that submit the form upon selection), that doesn't experience the same problem.
I even changed my form action to go to a plain html page, and it still tries to pass all of my form variables in the URL string.
I went to Microsoft's trouble shooting page for this error. I've tried deleting my browser history, clearing out any cached items, and also re-starting IE without "Add-Ons". The server has been restarted as well. None of these options have resolved the issue.
Neither the Apache log nor the Zope error log shows these errors. Has anyone encountered this problem? If so, what have you done to resolve the issue? _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
-- Peter Bengtsson, work www.fry-it.com home www.peterbe.com hobby www.issuetrackerproduct.com _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
2008/12/15 <garry@schoolteachers.co.uk>:
Quoting Peter Bengtsson <peterbe@gmail.com>:
Has nothing to do with Zope but... Use Firefox to debug it and you'll get to see the error. put method="post" on form tag and the submission won't be visible in the URL. I've had this happen with method=get in the past. Changing to post fixed it but... May be worth checking zope.conf:
Directive: http-header-max-length # # Description: # Maximum number of bytes allowed within a HTTP request header. The request # is discarded and considered as a DoS attack if the header size exceeds # this limit. # # Default: 8192 # # Example: # # http-header-max-length 16384
No. Don't fiddle with that. Get the form right. That's the basics. It might be worth reading up and understanding the basic difference between POST and GET and which to use when.
Regards Garry
2008/12/11 C <baiewola@gmail.com>:
We are running Zope 2.9.8 on Macintosh OS X Server 10.5.5 behind Apache 2.x.
I am having a problem when trying to submit one of my forms in IE 7. This only happens on Windows XP and it only started happening recently (we think in the past week).
The form contains several select boxes. When the user selects a value from one of the select boxes, it submits the form and processes the selection. The error I receive is an IE error that says: "Internet Explorer Cannot Display the Webpage". And for some reason, all of my selectbox values are showing in the URL as parameters. This is not supposed to happen. If I remove the parameters from the URL line and press enter, it works fine.
I have another page that works similar to this one (with multiple select boxes that submit the form upon selection), that doesn't experience the same problem.
I even changed my form action to go to a plain html page, and it still tries to pass all of my form variables in the URL string.
I went to Microsoft's trouble shooting page for this error. I've tried deleting my browser history, clearing out any cached items, and also re-starting IE without "Add-Ons". The server has been restarted as well. None of these options have resolved the issue.
Neither the Apache log nor the Zope error log shows these errors. Has anyone encountered this problem? If so, what have you done to resolve the issue? _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
-- Peter Bengtsson, work www.fry-it.com home www.peterbe.com hobby www.issuetrackerproduct.com _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
_______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
-- Peter Bengtsson, work www.fry-it.com home www.peterbe.com hobby www.issuetrackerproduct.com
On Monday 15 December 2008 15:04, Peter Bengtsson wrote:
2008/12/15 <garry@schoolteachers.co.uk>:
Quoting Peter Bengtsson <peterbe@gmail.com>:
Has nothing to do with Zope but... Use Firefox to debug it and you'll get to see the error. put method="post" on form tag and the submission won't be visible in the URL.
I've had this happen with method=get in the past. Changing to post fixed it but... May be worth checking zope.conf:
Directive: http-header-max-length # # Description: # Maximum number of bytes allowed within a HTTP request header. The request # is discarded and considered as a DoS attack if the header size exceeds # this limit. # # Default: 8192 # # Example: # # http-header-max-length 16384
No. Don't fiddle with that. Get the form right. That's the basics. It might be worth reading up and understanding the basic difference between POST and GET and which to use when.
I wasn't suggesting that he fiddles with it, but that someone else may have already fiddled, so therefore to check that the default was still extant. Regards Garry
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