Re: Interesting POST error

Keith, Another interesting addition to all of this, both your code and my developers original code work on our PHP v4 instance. Jesse Jesse Santana Project Lead - Enterprise Services Group Information Technology Services California State University, Long Beach 1250 Bellflower Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90840 Office: (562)985-8511 Fax: (562)985-8855 Keith Roberts <keith@karsites.net> 01/10/2008 02:55 AM Please respond to Keith Roberts <keith@karsites.net> To php-install@lists.php.net cc Subject Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Interesting POST error Is this what you are looking for Jesse: <html> <head> <title>Wiki Text Tester</title> </head> <body> <?php echo "Contents of \$_POST array: <br />"; while (list($key, $value) = each($_POST)) { echo "$key: $value <br />"; } ?> <br /> <form method="post" action="" accept-charset="utf-8"> <textarea name="wikitext" cols="80" rows="10"> <?php echo $_POST['wikitext'] ?> </textarea> <input type="submit" /> </form> </body> </html> The above also works with <html> or html in the text area. I tried your code on my machine but it was doing strange things to the URL for the page. HTH Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] ----------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Jesse Santana wrote: > To: php-install@lists.php.net > From: Jesse Santana <jsantana@csulb.edu> > Subject: [PHP-INSTALL] Interesting POST error > > One of our developers has brought an interesting problem to my attention. > I'll start off by describing our environment. We are running a Solaris 10 > server with Apache 2.2.6. PHP version 5.2.5 is loaded as a module and > appears to be working fine. However, our developer ran into a problem > using dokuwiki. When he submits a form with a <html> tag in it, he > receives a 400 error. He threw together this little script to verify the > problem: > > <html> > <body> > <?php > echo sprintf("%s", $_POST['wikitext']); > ?> > <br /> > <form method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" > accept-charset="utf-8"> > <textarea name="wikitext" style="height: 300px;" cols="80" > rows="10"></textarea> > > <input type="submit"/> > </form> > </body> > </html> > > This can be viewed here: > http://eagles.its.csulb.edu/php/PostTest.php > > As you can see, the script does nothing more than take what is submitted > and display it on the screen. However, if you type in <html> then click > on the Submit Query button, you will get a 400 error. > > Does anyone know why this is occurring? Am I looking at some php.ini > parameter change to fix this? > > Jesse > > Jesse Santana > Project Lead - Enterprise Services Group > Information Technology Services > California State University, Long Beach > 1250 Bellflower Blvd. > Long Beach, CA 90840 > Office: (562)985-8511 > Fax: (562)985-8855 >