Re: [users@httpd] Re: Form problem with non-ascii characters (æ or ß) (Apache Users)

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Jim Albert <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/26/2013 1:02 PM, Pi Dizayn wrote:

Here is a simple form from that server.

Sorry I forgot to send the link of the form.
http://medyab.com/formtest2.php

Have you checked to see that the browser is submitting the request? Check your apache access logs.

The firefox httpfox addon might help so that you can see the communication between browser and server:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/httpfox/

IE has similar feature with F12/Developer tools and the Network tab.

Maybe viewing the returned headers will help.

It sure seems related to the character set. Did you check the settings on AddDefaultCharset between your old and new apache server (possibly in httpd.conf since I assume any .htaccess files would be the same)? If that's set, it should match the characters intend to display and should be in sync with what you are setting via meta tags.

I'm assuming that:

<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-9'>
is what you set in your code when it was working on your old server.
Maybe the AddDefaultCharset (assuming it is set) on your new server conflicts with iso-8859-9.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset

Jim

Dear Jim,

First of all thank you for recommending me HttpFox. I was checking headers from FireBug but HttpFox looks better.
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There is no log for error or access in httpd logs.
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AddDefaultCharset is disabled both of the server. I tried "AddDefaultCharset iso-8859-9". It doesn't solve.
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When I checked with HttpFox what I get is;

(Request-Line) POST /formtest2.php HTTP/1.1
Host medyab.com
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0
Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language en-us,tr;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate
Referer http://medyab.com/formtest2.php
Cookie __utma=256146967.1605253938.1371937614.1372254337.1372331162.12; __utmz=256146967.1371937614.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __atuvc=7%7C26; PHPSESSID=d2rr0kb8q0rn0hlvt801vt6na5; __utmc=256146967
Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length 5

which are the same as the form that works normally on my server.

It also says NS_ERROR_NET_RESET. When I googled NS_ERROR_NET_RESET I saw that somebody is mentioning about enctype. When I add enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" to the form, it started working for Turkish characters and also for æ, ß too. But I can't add enctype to all of my forms. I feel I'm close to the solution. :)
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