#17958 [Com]: <input type=file> loses $_POST vars

ID: 17958 Comment by: jmax01@hotmail.com Reported By: ddp@deakin.edu.au Status: Critical Bug Type: Apache2 related Operating System: Linux 2.4.18 PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment: Hi, I have tested using the following platforms: Platform 1: OS: Windows XP Professional Webserver: Apache/2.0.40 PHP: 4.2.3 Platform 2: OS: Windows 2000 Professional Webserver: Apache 2.0.40 PHP: 4.2.3 Platform 3: OS: Windows 2000 Professional Webserver: Apache 1.3.26 PHP: 4.2.3 I use a custom http client to connect to the http server. The http requests are multipart/form-data. A sample request: POST /cgi-bin/XXXXXXX HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXX Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=XXXssxvnjhpdqdxvcrastvybcwvmgnykrXXX User-Agent: Java1.4.0 Host: XXX.XXX.XXX.X:XXX Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2 Connection: keep-alive Content-length: 142 XXXssxvnjhpdqdxvcrastvybcwvmgnykrXXX Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fieldName" fieldValue XXXssxvnjhpdqdxvcrastvybcwvmgnykrXXX-- The $_POST array is empty. I have tested against IBM HTTP Server/V5R2M0 and have not had a probelm retrieving multipart/form-data POST variables using IBM REXX CGI Parse. I am pretty sure my header is valid. Thanks, Jeff Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-16 09:19:23] marc@twisted-pair.de I currently have got the problem of lost _POST-Vars even without the enctype=... stuff. All post vars are lost. Browsers: Mozilla/1.0, lynx OS: Debian Linux/PPC Server: Apache 2.0.40 PHP: 4.2.3/4.3.0(cvs) Is there any "workaround"? (e.g. downgrading Apache or PHP) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-12 07:24:01] kalowsky@php.net updating version ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-12 05:42:28] ichwilleineemailadresse@gmx.net The Bug still appears in PHP 4.2.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-26 10:12:39] arash@yalpani.de I have a similar problem using PHP 4.2.2 and Apache 1.3.23. But only the first value of the $_POST-vars gets lost. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-21 19:15:37] clindh@homenet.se I just encountered symptoms quite similar to what you report here. I lost the first field from my POST:ed data when I had enctype"multipart/form-data" encoding on the form - with default encoding it worked fine. I never lost all POST:ed values though; just the first one (which happens to be a hidden field, but PHP does not know that). I know this worked fine with the same browser (IE6) while we were running PHP 4.1, we recently upgraded. This is with PHP 4.2.2 and Apache 1.3.26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/17958 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17958&edit=1