On Jan 2, 2008 7:36 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 6:42 PM -0500 1/2/08, Daniel Brown wrote:
> >On Jan 2, 2008 6:32 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Nope, it produces:
> >>
> >> %C2%C2%C2%C2%C2A%C2%C2%C2
> >>
> >> Thanks for trying :-)
> >
> > Why is it that things work perfectly for me until you test them?
>
> It's because I have a tester.
>
> You see, it's easy to say "Nope, that don't work." But, it's much
> harder to find a solution.
>
> Finding a solution is usually best served when one doesn't under
> estimate the problem, as many here have already demonstrated.
>
> As it turns out, this problem is more complex than any of us has been
> able to fathom thus far.
>
> When a string containing non-breaking spaces is sent via a POST, what
> do those non-breaking spaces become? It's clear that they are not
> spaces, nor are they
>
> To find out, I did put the operation through FireFox and reversed the
> POST/GET operations to get a look at the string -- it is:
>
> %C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0Z%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0 < where Z is the value passed.
>
> Now, C2 (HEX) is a linefeed (194 DEC)
>
> And, A0 (HEX) is a non-breaking space (160 DEC;) which is a
>
> Therefore, if I simply use:
>
> $submit = str_replace( chr(194), '', $submit );
> $submit = str_replace( chr(160), '', $submit );
>
> This is the solution.
>
> Now, why does a POST operation add in C2's? I'll leave that for
> another post. :-)
>
> Thanks everyone for your time. I hope we all learned something, I did.
Well, believe it or not, that was the highlight of my day, which
began with everything going wrong - not just normal, small things like
stubbing your toe, but rather larger - and culminated in my truck
burning up while I was driving to a datacenter for a client.
Now the research begins.... why DOES that C2 get thrown in?
P.S. - If someone has the answer, don't tell me, because I'd like
something to keep Wednesday off my mind for the rest of the week.
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