Re: [Phpslash-devel] poll weirdness

[Joe S. <joe...@us...>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:08:35PM -0600, Joe Stewart wrote:

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>  
> > > Ajay - Luis found a problem with the poll total votes if you manually
> > > put values into the form.  Maybe you could give him a hint.  I
> > > remember the old days with the bad counts and you fighting with this.
> > 
> > I'll have to dig into the code since I've been pretty much AWOL for the 
> > last year.  :)  I do have a working 7.0 installation at home so I'll try 
> > to recreate this bug.
> > 
> 
> He kind of abused it by putting a very large number in one of the Votes 
> fields ( all 9's).
> 

This seems to be confined to using mozilla cvs snapshot.  While other browsers 
also accepts an extra digit in the form field, this version of mozilla also 
submits it.  Creating a screwed up database entry.

Joe