[FX.php List] Error 958: Parameter missing in query

Wed May 21 09:08:35 MDT 2008

Erik,

Is it possible that the PHP file itself wasn't SAVED AS utf-8? I think if the browser sees a different encoding coming from the server, it may ignore the META directive.

-Troy

> Hi all,
> 
> Recently, a problem has come to my attention, which has  
> (unfortunately) bugged a site I have built for just over a year.
> 
> In some rare cases, when a customer attempts to place an order on the  
> site, FX throws a 958 error.
> 
> I have been digging for possible causes, and now have a theory which  
> I'd like your comments on.
> 
> Last year this issue came up on the list, and it was identified as  
> caused by the webpage containing the form to be POSTed lacking the  
> following:
> 
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> I
> have checked my source code, and it does indeed have this META tag  
> included:
> 
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd  > "> > <html lang="da"> > <head>
> > 	<link media="screen" href="admin/files/css/structure.css"   >
> rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> > 	<link rel="StyleSheet"
> href="inc/the_sheet.css" type="text/css"   > media="screen"> > 	 >
> 	<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> > 	<link
> rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> > > 	<script
> language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="inc/  >
> functions.js"></script> > 	<meta http-equiv="content-type"
> content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > 	<title>Dagkort.dk - Kvittering:
> Ugekort, Jels Fiskeriforening</title> > 	<meta name="generator"
> content="BBEdit 8.0"> > 	<meta name="author" content="Erik
> Cayr&eacute;"> > 	<meta name="keywords" content="dagkort.dk,
> dag-kort.dk, dagkort, ...
> 
> When I catch errors in the site's operation, I have it send an email  
> with information which might be used to identify and fix the problem.
> Looking over 145 instances of this error, I have found only one common  
> factor: the string ".NET CLR 1.1.4322" in the user-agent  
> identification. Complete sample here:
> 
> 		Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET  
> CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2)
> 
> You may notice that in my source HTML, the META tag appears before the  
> title tag.
> 
> My current theory is that the .NET framework (or whatever) which is  
> common to all the errors I have seen, somehow doesn't like my HTML  
> source.
> 
> Before writing this message, I have amended my code to swap the  
> positions of the tags, such that the TITLE tag appears before the META  
> tag. Unfortunately, I have no ready access to a Windows PC with the  
> exact same .NET framework installed to test the problem. So I'll have  
> to wait and see.
> 
> All comments are welcome;-)
> 
> regards
> 
> ---
> 
> Erik Andreas Cayré
> 
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