[ckan-dev] form POST question

Wed Mar 2 10:21:56 UTC 2011

Could it be this bug?

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22427#1158232010

Seb

On 28 February 2011 18:14, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just investigating an exception that CKAN sees occasional, over
> the Form API, as no doubt plenty of you have lots of good experience
> with different browsers and form POSTs.
>
> Once or twice per month we get an exception "exceptions.KeyError?"
> when processing the fields in the form POST - the POST doesn't include
> a particular field i.e. one or more that we believe were on the form
> is not in the POST request we receive. It occurs both for creating and
> editing packages, and it barfs on a different field each time. We
> don't have currently have detailed logs, although that's setup now.
>
> I contacted the latest person to suffer this problem and he:
> 1. is using IE6
> 2. when he got the 'server error' response from the form submission,
> he pressed 'refresh' and the form went in fine.
>
> This, and its rarity suggests to me that it is an intermittent error.
> Do you think can we put this down to a disrupted internet connection
> truncating the request? Aside from a better error message than 500, is
> there something we can do to ease this?
>
> David
>
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