ASP webform questionnaire - some submissions arrive blank

[samurrai]

Hello, I am using an ASP webform to collect submissions on my godaddy hosted website. The submissions are then posted to a godaddy hosted e-mail address. I am using goaddy's built-in asp form mailer "webformmailer.asp". Some submissions arrive at my e-mail address with no problem, however, some submissions arrive blank. The blank messages are odd because even if a user failed to fill out the form and simply hit submit, the input names should still come through. For instance, in the following line, (provided it were bracketed and placed within the code correctly), the text "LastName" should come through in the e-mail even if the last name isn't filled in:

input type="text" name="LastName"

I'm curious if anyone is familiar with issues with setting up asp form mailers in general that would cause sporadic blank submissions? Godaddy claims they have no issues with their form mailer, and I've checked for reports of any similar issues, and have found none. I'm thinking of swapping out the godaddy formmailer for an alternative, but wanted to do a bit of digging first as I'd hate to swap and have the same issue.

Any thoughts are most welcome.

 

[jmeckley]

there could be a number of reasons. 1 being that bots are submitting the form and bypassing validation. Typically that has spam text though. it could also be the way you call webformmailer.asp which is causing double submits.

the code to send an email is very simple. swapping out godaddy's form isn't difficult at all. but you are correct. I would start by verifying you code doesn't have any bugs/loop holes.

Jason Meckley
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