A quick dump->logfile of the httpd %ENV revealed the truncatated QUERY_STRING while
the REQUEST_URI show the entire string intact. This tells me the collector app
(which is a Windows based app, not html) is not sending anything as hex.
I think I am screwed :-)
QUERY_STRING =
FirstName=John&LastName=Doe&Company=&Address=123+Winward+Lane&Address2=Apt+
REQUEST_METHOD = GET
REQUEST_URI =
/cgi-bin/uwsignup.cgi?FirstName=John&LastName=Doe&Company=&Address=123+Winward+Lane&Address2=Apt+#23&
City=Lakeshore&State=KY&Zip=55555&Phone=270-555-5555
Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:59:41PM -0500, Robert Canary wrote:
> | I have a situation here where I do not have access to a Internet
> | Installer code. The problem is if the user types a # symbol in the data
> | collection (e.g. Apt #12) then Apache truncates everything after the #
> | symbol, resulting in an incomplete list of data needed to process the
> | query.
> |
> | As I mentioned I do not have access to the source code of the
> | application that collects the info so filtering the # symbol out as it
> | is sent is not an option.
> |
> | Any ideas how to handle this?
>
> You may be screwed. The collector is bust.
>
> I'm having some trouble envisaging your app. The short answer is that in an URL
> the ? and # are effectively punctuation, and a query like
>
> http://blah/blah/thing.cgi?foo#bah
>
> says "ask about foo and place the browser at location bah in the result
> document". Apache isn't stripping your hash (I think - given your
> description), the browser only asks for
>
> http://blah/blah/thing.cgi?foo
>
> and handles the #bah at display time. Apache never sees the #.
>
> If someone has typed a # into a web form then it's _supposed_ to be hex
> encoded:
>
> http://blah/blah/thing.cgi?foo%23bah
>
> So this _really_ wasn't fixing at the client end. Any more info?
> --
> Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
>
> Everything that can be invented has been invented.
> - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
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