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Acrobat form with server side submit, posting blank data

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snitin78

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Mar 16, 2009
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Hi,

I have a PDF form which gets submitted to the server using a submit (server-side) button. The data is then received in XML format by a ColdFusion component which does some validation and stores it into the database.

This PDF form is usually filled in by our clients using Adobe Reader 8 or below. While most of the times(and I mean like 96-97% of the times) everything goes well, at times we receive blank data into our database!! This renders couple of other features in our application useless as they try to parse an XML which does not exist.

I do believe that this is not a problem at the ColdFusion side because all it does is trim(ToString(toBinary(GetHttpRequestData().content))).

Does anyone has a clue as to why the data will be lost upon form submission?? I have done a lot of googling around it but in vain!
 
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