Bug 753 – "Text field" input breaks on IE7, probably due to javascript errors

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Bug 753 - "Text field" input breaks on IE7, probably due to javascript errors


Summary:	"Text field" input breaks on IE7, probably due to javascript errors

Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL

Product:	Validator.nu
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	General
Version:	HEAD
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P2 normal
Assigned To:	Nobody

URL:	http://validator.nu/

Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported:	2010-06-22 11:22 CEST by Peter Magnusson
Modified:	2013-07-12 05:04 CEST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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validator.nu saved from IE7 (so proxy bugs can be ruled out) (6.45 KB, application/x-zip-compressed) 2010-06-22 11:22 CEST, Peter Magnusson	Details
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Description Peter Magnusson 2010-06-22 11:22:00 CEST

Created attachment 182 [details]
validator.nu saved from IE7 (so proxy bugs can be ruled out)

When submitting "Text field" input using Internet Explorer 7, the following error is presented:

HTTP ERROR: 415
application/x-www-form-urlencoded not supported. Please use multipart/form-data.
RequestURI=/

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With Firefox the problem does not occur.

It would seem that IE7 choose x-www-form-urlencoded and FF choose multipart/form-data. I can see with Firebug that a client script modifying the enctype and method parameters. The script breaks on IE7, on row 570 column 4, "null is null or not an object"





(Probably not related, but there is a mandatory company forward proxy inbetween browsers and Internet. So far it has not caused any similar errors, and it is generally not modifying received pages)

Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2013-07-12 05:04:58 CEST

The validator UI code is not intended to work with IE7. I'm pretty sure it doesn't work as expected with IE8 either.