Re: [Phplib-users] New IE anomaly(?)

[Frank B. <fb...@sy...>]

At 04:54 PM 9/20/04, Mike Green wrote:
>I have a site which I set up over four years ago using PHPLib's Object 
>Oriented Forms (OOForms). I have updated the PHPLib files which this site 
>uses since then, but I haven't changed the code which uses the OOForms, 
>including the regexes they use. Perhaps should have, but have not.
>
>Many, many folk have used the forms on this site for subscriptions during 
>the time they have been in place. Yesterday, however, a user returned to 
>renew his subscription and received an error message from OOForms saying 
>that he had entered an invalid email address. It is, however, the same 
>email address he used when he subscribed a year earlier, saved in our 
>database and placed in the form for him to confirm. It was accepted by 
>OOForms and the regex it uses when he originally subscribed. And when I 
>tested today, with my browser (Opera) and OS (Linux), OOForms had no 
>objections to his email address.
>
>It would seem, therefore, that the problem could be with some way that the 
>browser he is now using handles the data in the form. He reports that he 
>is using MS Internet Explorer v.6.0.2800 on MS XP Professional. Are any of 
>you aware of something new in an IE "fix" which could cause such a result?


You didn't provide either the regex or sample data.  Also, 6.0.2800 is an 
incomplete version number for IE.  I have access to IE 
6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422.1633 on XP Pro, but do not know what you want 
tested.