[webkit-dev] Desperate for webkit help

[Mark]

Hi guys, many thanks for your advice. I'll check out the wireshark thing for
sure. In the meantime I have managed to cobble together a demo so you can
see hopefully the bug:
Please go here: http://demo.jmbsoft.com/cgi-bin/ags/submit.cgi

Enter the following information:

Username, Password: Leave Blank
Name:, Nickname: Whatever
Email: something at validemailaddress.com
Description: Enter a 30-40 character string wwerewr ewr
Gallery URL: http://www.intotheflood.com/webkit-demo/index.html
Category: Leave as is
Number of Thumbs: 12
Preview Thumb: choose "Let the script select an image from your gallery"

Now hit submit, it will either throw up a success(submission recorded) or
invalid message. If you get success, hit back on your browser, webkit should
remember all the information you entered, submit again and again and
eventually you should land upon an "invalid URL" or "Invalid email"
message.

I'd be really interested to know if this does indeed happen for you! You may
need to submit a lot of times before you get the error, or you may get it
straight away.

many thanks

mark

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 1:37 AM, David Kilzer <ddkilzer at webkit.org> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> The best thing you could do is to file a bug on <
> https://bugreport.apple.com/>
> and attach source for a project that reproduces the issue, along with
> details
> steps to reproduce the issue.  If you don't have an Apple Developer
> Connection
> (ADC) membership, sign up for a free "online" membership using
> <https://connect.apple.com/>.
>
> The second thing you should do is to install Wireshark (a packet sniffer)
> on OS
> X and use it to capture the traffic being sent back and forth to the
> server
> when the bug occurs.  (Since this generally requires either GTK built for
> Cocoa
> or X11 to be installed--and using MacPorts or Fink to build it from
> source--it
> may be easier to capture the traffic using "tcpdump" and copying that file
> to
> another platform where you may install a pre-built Wireshark binary.
>  Hmm...I
> guess there is a Wireshark binary for Intel Macs linked off the Downloads
> page
> now.)
>
> http://www.wireshark.org/
> http://www.macports.org/
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/
>
> I would recommend attaching the tcpdump output to the bug created on
> bugreport.apple.com as well.  This is roughly the command you want to run
> (from
> a Terminal) to capture the output on OS X if you don't use Wireshark
> directly:
>
> sudo tcpdump -s 0 -w packets.tcpdump -i en0
>
> Finally, this kind of sounds like the issue described in this bug on
> bugs.webkit.org:
>
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5760#c38
>
> If you know enough about the TCP/IP protcol, you should be able to see
> this
> issue happening with the tcpdump packet trace.
>
> Note that the behavior of this keep-alive timeout issue can vary depending
> on
> how "far away" the server is from your client.  I think servers on a local
> network (or subnet) display this behavior much easier than hitting a
> "remote"
> server.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Dave
>
>
> Mark <hoicem at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi. I've been developing a cocoa application based around webkit for the
> > last 18 months. It's an auto form filling/submitting tool primarily
> designed
> > for adult webmasters to submit their free pages to link lists. (If this
> is
> > an problem I guess you can stop reading now)...
> > Currently development has grinded to a complete hault because of a
> webkit
> > issue that we just can't work round. We first noticed the issue with the
> > release of Safari 3 but it still exists in the last nightly build of
> webkit.
> > The issue is this: imagine a simple html form. The form is like so and
> the
> > user filled data is in brackets:
> >
> > Name: (mark)
> > Email: (whatever at qwerty123456.com)
> > Url: (http://www.google.com)
> >
> > Now if we submit this form in Safari/Webkit, 40-50% of the time the web
> > script will throw up an 'invalid email' or 'invalid url' message. At
> first
> > you think 'oh, I must have entered data incorrectly' but clicking back,
> data
> > looks fine. Submit same data again, second time round it submits fine!
> >
> > It seems to happen totally at random, it's like the data visible in the
> form
> > fields (ie, the user entered data) is not being passed onto the form
> when
> > submit is pressed. It worked fine prior to safari 3 and we know it's a
> > webkit issue because it only occurs in our app/safari/webkit. Other
> browsers
> > submit the same data perfectly each time to the exact same html forms.
> >
> > It's very hard to nail down. Sometimes it will submit fine first time,
> > sometimes if it fails first time, it can fail second time and then
> succeed
> > third time. You just have to keep submitting the same data until it
> works.
> >
> > Can anyone please help with this? It's kinda killed our application and
> as
> > the title suggests I'm *desperate* for it to be fixed.
> >
> > kindest regards
> >
> > mark
>
>
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