Re: Bug in version 3 - length of textarea or 8bit characters?

From: Onime Clement (onime@ictp.trieste.it)
Date: Thu, Sep 20 2001

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    Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:50:33 +0200 (MET DST)
    From: "Onime Clement" <onime@ictp.trieste.it>
    To: Lena@lena.kiev.ua
    Cc: www4mail-comments@w3.org
    Subject: Re: Bug in version 3 - length of textarea or 8bit characters?
    
    Forgot to mention, 
    This is not a bug.
    It is a side effect probably due to the fact that version 3 gateways try to
    handle HTML mails from users!
    
    Clement
    
    > Hello,
    > 
    > Below I include two similar letters to www4mail. Both these letters
    > work with version 2.4 (stuttgart; collaborium before switch to version
    > 3), but with version 3 (collaborium now, kabissa) only second letter
    > works. I receive no reply at all to the first letter (with more text in
    > textarea and with 8bit characters in it), and the website
    > (groups.yahoo.com) doesn't perform requested operation (change of
    > settings of a group). I tried many times. My mail client can't encode
    > letter body.
    > 
    > I changed some characters to xxxxx (privacy reasons), but kept
    > number of characters.
    > 
    > I took into account change of syntax of XFORM command. XFORM command I
    > used for version 2.4:
    > XFORM=form method post action
    > "/group/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/settings?cachebuster=on" For version 3:
    > XFORM=:post::/group/xxxx/settings?cachebuster=on
    > 
    > If stuttgart also switches to version 3 then I'll be stuck:
    > the site requires cookies, and idrc and bellanet (version 2.2)
    > don't support them.
    > 
    > Thanks,
    > 
    > Lena
    > 
    >
    ===========================================================================
    >
    XBASE="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/settings?function=1&submit_edit=Edit"
    > XNOSTAT=yes
    > xformreply=get
    > XFORM=form method post action
    > "/group/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/settings?cachebuster=on" function=1
    >summary=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    > newlistname=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    > description=[This group is Russian-language only. You must send your
    > introduction in Russian to xxxxxxxxxxxxxx-owner@egroups.com at first,
    > else your subscription request will never be approved. <br>
    > Discussion group for xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and
    > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. <br>
    > Category: Russian language - Society - xxxxxxxxxxx.
    > <p>
    > Русскоязычная конференция для
    > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    > и т.п., и самих таких людей. <br>
    > Статьи в конференцию не модерируются, но подписка модерируется, т.е.
    > посторонние не допускаются. <br>
    > Архив доступен только подписчикам.
    > 
    > <iframe src="/group/xxxx/files/webtracker/m.htm" border=0
    > frameborder=no vspace=0 hspace=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0
    > scrolling=no width=1 height=1><img width=1 height=1
    >src="http://www.xxxxxxxxx.f2s.com/Lena-webtracker.pl?m;NoIframe"></iframe>
    >]
    > url=http://www.xxxxxxx.ru/xxxxx/index.html#xxxx
    > language=60
    > listing=1
    > XSUBMIT_ON=submit_modify
    >submit_modify=Save Changes
    > XFORM=/form
    > GETSIZE=
    > GETPART=
    > XEXTRAOPT=
    >
    ===========================================================================
    >
    XBASE="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxxx/settings?function=1&submit_edit=Edit"
    > XNOSTAT=yes
    > xformreply=get
    > XFORM=:post::/group/xxxx/settings?cachebuster=on
    > function=1
    >summary=xxxx
    > newlistname=xxxx
    > description=[My personal mailing list with archive.
    > 
    > <iframe src="/group/xxxx/files/webtracker/l.htm" border=0
    > frameborder=no vspace=0 hspace=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0
    > scrolling=no width=1 height=1><img width=1 height=1
    >src="http://www.xxxxxxxxx.f2s.com/Lena-webtracker.pl?l;NoIframe"></iframe>
    >]
    > url=http://xxxxxxxxx.xx
    > language=60
    > listing=1
    > XSUBMIT_ON=submit_modify
    >submit_modify=Save Changes
    > XFORM=/form
    > GETSIZE=
    > GETPART=
    > XEXTRAOPT=
    >
    ===========================================================================