If you can use the packet sniffer, is it possible for you to send to
content of the request that is made to PHP that fails.

Edin


Network Admin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We've got an odd one here.
> 
> Windows 2003 SP1, IIS6 running with PHP 5.1.4 as an ISAPI module.
> 
> Form submission method is POST, and the data is coming from a form
> inside outlook 2003 (although 2000 and 2002 versions exhibit the same
> issue).
> 
> The issue is this:
> 
> Around 10% to 15% of the time PHP will not populate the $_POST variable
> when the form is submitted from Outlook.
> 
> Things we have figured out:
> 
> 1) PHP 5.1.4 is the most reliable (5.0.5 is terrible on this, 5.1.2 is
> somewhere in between).
> 2) Outlook is always POSTing the data to the web server (I used a packet
> sniffer to make sure of this).
> 3) It *always* works if we submit to an ASP handler page on the same IIS
> server.
> 4) We've ruled out any network devices (such as firewalls) by running a
> test webserver inside our firewall (again, 2003 SP1 with IIS6 and PHP
> 5.1.4)
> 5) The $_POST variable is always populated if submitting from a web
> browser, or a web based email client.
> 6) The failure sequence is random - sometimes you can submit 15 times in
> a row correctly, sometime it will fail on the first attempt.
> 7) We have made a test form HTML (for sending in an email) and a test
> handler (which does print_r($_POST); and nothing else) - we can see
> failures even with that - files can be sent on request.
> 
> I've been going mad over this ... any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Jason
> 

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