Re: Lost feature

Lena,
Just to say that I have included code to attempts to reproduce the
behaviour of the 2.4 gateways with respect to Multi line form data.

This means that your page should probably work okay with
wm.ictp.trieste.it. 
Please kindly test and let me know! 
Other servers could be upgraded when I get your response..

BTW: Your mail client seems to claim that it supports MIME. At least it
sends a MIME Version header.

Thanks
Clement Onime


On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 Lena@lena.kiev.ua wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> A quote from "HELP FORMS":
> 
> > 3. NOTES ON SUBMITTING MULTI-LINE DATA
> > For submitting multi-line data, you may use the following
> > table to get different behaviour from the www4mail server.
> 
> > [ First line
> > second line
> > third line
> > ...
> > last line ]
> >
> > Your data will be submitted to the WEB server as one
> > line with each line separated by %0D0A (the Enter or Return key).
> 
> > If you are using the TEXT mode then make sure that the {, ( or [ or {(
> > comes after the = sign on the same line.
> > If you use a web browser then make sure that the first character of your
> > entry is the {, ( , [ or {( sign(s).
> 
> www4mail versions 2.2 and 2.4 support this feature. Example:
> 
> > To: www4mail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
> >
> > XBASE=http://www.lena-kiev.f2s.com
> > XNOSTAT
> > XFORMREPLY=SOURCE
> > XFORM=form method post action "/displayform.pl"
> > a=[b
> > cd
> > e=f]
> > XSUBMIT_NOW = on
> > XFORM= /form
> 
> Resulting posted string: a=b%0D%0acd%0D%0ae%3Df
> All is OK, as intended.
> 
> But www4mail version 3.0/pre3.0rc12b doesn't support this feature,
> the [ ] are treated as just data. Example:
> 
> > To: www4mail@collaborium.org
> >
> > XBASE=http://www.lena-kiev.f2s.com
> > XNOSTAT
> > XFORMREPLY=SOURCE
> > XFORM=:post::/displayform.pl
> > a=[b
> > cd
> > e=f]
> > XSUBMIT_NOW = on
> > XFORM= /form
> 
> Resulting posted string: a=%5Bb&e=f%5D
> 
> Second line of content of the textarea lost, third line erroneously
> treated as separate form field.
> 
> The test script I wrote, installed and used for these examples:
> 
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > print "Content-type: text/plain\n\nSTDIN: ";
> > while ( <STDIN> ) { print; }
> > print "\nEnvironment:\n";
> > foreach ( sort keys %ENV ) { print "$_ = $ENV{$_}\n"; }
> 
> Please reinstate the feature. To add "%0D%0A\" at the end of
> each line in multi-line content of textarea is cumbersome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lena
>

Received on Monday, 24 September 2001 09:27:10 UTC