270661 - POST Data not submitted. Malformed header Content length sent as zero (0).

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Gus M. Creces]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

There's a problem with your form POST implementation.
The same form set with GET (using Firefox) works okay. The same form with I.E.
6.0 works okay. More often than not, the POST header is sent with zero length.
See buffer extract below. This is not an old website. It is completely
re-written with FireFox in mind.
____________________________________________________________
Error (1030) Malformed HTTP header.
____________________________________________________________
------- HTTP BUFFER VIEW 1 -------
Size of post data:0
Start of post data:0
POST /KQY$ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.cwhandy.ca:3389
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) 
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Accept: 
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer:http://www.cwhandy.ca:3389/QRY$&querypage=1&sessionid=1596-74470-5370598&
Cookie:ngmessagesviewlastquery=DATE%20RANGE%20THISWEEK%20ORDER%20BY%20-DATE%2C-TIME;

ngmembersviewlastquery=DATE%20RANGE%20THISWEEK%20ORDER%20BY%20-DATE%2C-TIME; 





Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the url http://news.cwhandy.ca/REG$
2. Enter, first, last, email address, company, (bogus info okay)
3. Click the Register button. The form will not submit. At our end we see the
server logging a POST header with no data attached (0) length. Tne info in the
form should be submitted as POST data attached to the header after two CRLF's.


Actual Results:  
Nothing. The page just sits there. Not infrequently Foxfire will throw an error
"Alert, the document contains no data". The form fields DO contain data and can
be re-type ad infinitum. With no perceived change in the behavior of POST.

Expected Results:  
It should submitted the POST data and provide navigation to another page
provided by the server.

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

The website is just giving me a "please use IE" message

Comment 2

[Gus M. Creces]

Please try this again.
If the browser that you used identifies itself in the following manner 
(User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) 
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 )
The site will give you access.
Try simply  http://news.cwhandy.ca/

Comment 3

[Gus M. Creces]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The website is just giving me a "please use IE" message

Please try this again.
If the browser that you used identifies itself in the following manner 
(User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) 
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 )
The site will give you access.
Try simply  http://news.cwhandy.ca/

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> If the browser that you used identifies itself in the following manner 

Which it won't if it's a current trunk build (which is what developers would be
using).  Is there a testcase that's actually accessible in a reasonably current
build?

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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