Debian Bug report logs - #58235
lynx: if ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data, then the POST-ed variables get padded with a space

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Magosanyi Arpad <mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: lynx: if ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data, then the POST-ed variables get padded with a space

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:35:41 +0100

Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.2-6
Severity: normal

The php3 http_post_vars get a space padded to them.
You can test it with barracuda, putting a phpinfo() on the head
of setobject.php3 for test purposes, and lookung for http_post_vars[]
in the output.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux bunuel 2.2.9 #2 Fri Jun 4 23:14:38 EST 1999 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages lynx depends on:
ii  debconf         0.2.60         Debian configuration management system
ii  libc6           2.1.2-11       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  slang1          1.3.9-1        The S-Lang programming library - runtime ver
ii  zlib1g          1.1.3-5        compression library - runtime
	^^^ (Provides virtual package libz1)

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Message #10 received at 58235@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>

To: 58235@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Magosanyi Arpad <mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu>

Subject: lynx: if ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data, then the POST-ed variables get padded with a space

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:37:32 -0500 (CDT)

This seems to be php3's bug, not lynx's.  Please reassign this bug
to the appropriate php3 package.

Netscape (tested only with an old 4.04) is sending headers like this
(for each of the entities of the multipart message):

   .....
   --------------- boundary -----------
   Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fieldname"

   data ...
   --------------- boundary -----------
   .....

Lynx is constructing the request like this:


   .....
   --------------- boundary -----------
   Content-Disposition: form-data; name=fieldname
   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
   
   data ...
   --------------- boundary -----------
   .....

I don't know what part of the difference makes php3 handle the fieldname wrong,
but lynx's request isn't any less correct than netscape's, afaik.

  Klaus

Message #15 received at 58235@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tom Goulet <tomg@em.ca>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <58235@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: lynx: if ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data, then the POST-ed variables get padded with a space

Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 15:10:45 +0000

Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.4.1b-4
Followup-For: Bug #58235

I am pretty sure this is a bug in PHP, not Lynx.  PHP 4.2.something works
correctly with Lynx's "multipart/form-data" implementation.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux nova 2.4.20 #4 Thu Mar 27 01:30:49 UTC 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB

Versions of packages lynx depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.1-16       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5               5.3.20021109-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.1.4-11     compression library - runtime

Message #20 received at 58235@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>

To: 58235@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: lynx: if ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data, then the POST-ed variables get padded with a space

Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 18:29:46 +0100

reassign 58235 php3
thanks

Tom Goulet <tomg@em.ca> writes:

> Package: lynx
> Version: 2.8.4.1b-4
> Followup-For: Bug #58235
> 
> I am pretty sure this is a bug in PHP, not Lynx.  PHP 4.2.something works
> correctly with Lynx's "multipart/form-data" implementation.

reassigning this; I'm afraid I haven't checked if it's still relevant
because I don't know enough about php3 to do so easily.

-- 
James

Message #27 received at 58235-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>

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Subject: php3 removed from unstable/testing

Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:19:29 +0100

Dear reporter,

php3 has been removed from Debian unstable/testing, because it's superseded
by php4 and php5. Please see #330656 for more information.

This bug does not apply to php4 or php5, so I'm closing it now.

Thank you for your report,
--Jeroen

-- 
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
jeroen@wolffelaar.nl
http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

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