in reply to Intermittent empty POST

We had a similar (though not the exact) problem and it turned out to be related to the combination of the browser itself, and the data inside a TEXTAREA field (basically an odd browser bug). In fact, sometimes the SUBMIT button would not even work for some odd reason. So the problem could be on the client, rather than the server (though it does sound like you've narrowed it down to the server). Have you tried analyzing the HTTP conversation? Or using a non-brower (command-line utility) to do the POST-ing repeatedly?

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Re^2: Intermittent empty POST
by lobo_nz (Novice) on Jul 18, 2006 at 08:39 UTC

    thanks for the posts, I did resolve the problem by removing mod_perl2, which is a shame as I was starting to get into mod_perl.

    The problem was not with a mod_perl script but a cgi script so there should not be any problem with variable declaration, I only had 1 mod_perl script which worked fine.

    The problem was definately not a browser problem I reproduced the error on 3 platforms and several browsers.

    Since having no more errors since removing mod_perl2 I am leaning towards the "funkyness between CGI.pm and mod_perl" theory from the link in my original post.

    I can reproduce the error on my devlopment machine so will try to figure it out once I have some spare time.

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