Re: Plus sign changing to space in html form

When i enter 1%2B1%3D2 to the input form and submit, the result is 1+1=2 It looks like the http request received by php is not "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" but php thinks that it is. I dont know what to think about that. "Chris Shiflett" <chris@shiflett.org> wrote in message news:3DBDE88B.7010009@shiflett.org... > This is true, but the + itself should also be encoded. > > I did a quick test, and when I post a form variable called test with a > value of 1+1=2, the HTTP request looks like this: > > POST /test.php HTTP/1.1 > Host: 127.0.0.1 > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020916 > Accept: > text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q= 0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1 > Accept-Language: en > Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66 > Keep-Alive: 300 > Connection: keep-alive > Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded > Content-Length: 14 > > test=1%2B1%3D2 > > So, that %2B would have to get decoded twice to result in a space. > > Stan, do you have a way to see what the HTTP request is? You mention > being on a BSD box, so I assume you have tcpdump? Also, is this behavior > consistent with different browsers? > > Chris > > John W. Holmes wrote: > > >The plus sign is used to signify a space in some URL encoding. PHP is > >probably thinking the text is encoded and it's removing the plus sign. > >Not sure on a solution. > > > >---John Holmes... > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Stan [mailto:stann@pobox.sk] > >>Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 6:27 PM > >>To: php-general@lists.php.net > >>Subject: [PHP] Plus sign changing to space in html form > >> > >>When i post a string containing plus sign with htmp form to a php scritp, > >> > >> > >>the '+' is changed to space. e.g: i enter 'as+df' to a text input > >>but $_POST[] returns 'as df' instead. > >> > >> > >>It must be in php or apache configuration bcause i have this problem only > >> > >> > >>on sytem with FreeBSD. On windows it works as expected. > >> > >>Know someone how could i make the '+' left intact? Please help. > >> > >> > >><? > >>echo $_POST['test']; > >>?> > >><form actiom='test.php' method=POST> > >><input type=text value='' name=test> > >><input type=submit value='submit'> > >></form> > >> >