Bizarre munging of form data

[Eamon Daly <ea...@fastweb.com>]

I've just run into the strangest problem I've ever had the
misfortune of coming across. I have a form containing a
number of various fields, including two radio buttons named
"WHO_REGISTERED". Here's the code that parses the data and
puts it into a hash:

sub get_input {
    my $apr = Apache::Request->new(shift);
    my $inputref = shift;

    foreach my $param ( $apr->param ) {
        push @{ $inputref->{$param} }, $apr->param($param);
    }
}

For some reason, sometimes (not always, but /sometimes/)
$param magically comes out as "   _  GISTERED".

Our site has /thousands/ of forms, and it's only this one
variable by this particular name that wigs out like this.
It's the weirdest darn thing. I've put in hack code like:

$param =~ s{^   _  GISTERED$}{WHO_REGISTERED};

above, and everything now seems to work just fine. I just
don't get it.

For completeness, I'll include the relevant HTML block:

<tr>
<td width="25%" align=left valign=top>
<b>Are you a parent filling this profile out for your child?</b><br>
<small><font color="#0000FF">MANDATORY</font></small>
</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td align=left valign=top>
<input type="radio" name="WHO_REGISTERED" value="Parent" checked>Yes<br>
<input type="radio" name="WHO_REGISTERED" value="Student" >No
</td>
</tr>

Maybe I'm just an idiot and am overlooking something
simple. If anyone can catch the problem or suggest ways I
can debug this behavior, I'm all ears.

________________________________________
Eamon Daly
FastWeb, Inc.
847 568 6410

Re: Bizarre munging of form data

[Ged Haywood <ge...@jubileegroup.co.uk>]

Hi there

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Eamon Daly wrote:

> I've just run into the strangest problem I've ever had the
> misfortune of coming across. I have a form containing a
> number of various fields, including two radio buttons named
> "WHO_REGISTERED".

Well it's a bit off-the wall, but the letters WHORE could conceivably
(sorry:) be munged by some kind of political correctness enforcer.

As a test, try putting some other salacious material in your forms?

73,
Ged.