Bug of the year?!

[jmswe]

I have a very VERY strange bug. Im testing a website for netscape 6.

My problem:

Asp variables filled from request.form statements print all right and fine on screen for the users.

BUT! they dont show up in netscape 6 page source. That means that my dynamically generated href javascript strings dont work all right.

Asp code:
var1 = request.form("var1&quot
var2 = request.form("var2&quot

test = "var1=" & var1 & "&var2=" & var2)
response.write(test)

On screen you see:

"var1=blabla&var2=blablo"

BUT page source in netscape says:

"var1=&var2="

example end

Up until now i would have ruled out this kind of behaviuor as impossible since netscape shouldnt be able to tell where the asp script got the content it is sending from.

I dont have the problem on all the pages but one i one to many.

Any clues?

 

[JCooL]

Test this

test = "var1= " & var1 & " var2= " & var2
response.write(test)


Good Luck!

 

[baddos]

Is netscape POSTing to this page? I.e. Did you just load the page directly, or were you POSTed to this page?

 

[Tarwn]

Hmm...
I have difficulty how this could have passed the multitude of bug updates they did on NS 6+. Difficulty, but not impossibility

I would agree that this sounds like a bug if the source for the page is displaying something different than what is being displayed in the actual browser. You may want to check if there are updates for this and also write the most minimal page you can to display this error and send both a screenshot, a copy from the view source, and the source to netscape. If there are no updates you may need to just upgrade to Netscape 7, as many people gave up on 6 and either moved on or skiped it.

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[jmswe]

Hi, thanks for the tips everyone!

I use netscape 6 only for compatibility testing a new site i am developing. I will do a backup solution with session memories to rescue any netscape 6 users.

Cant figure out what goes wrong. It works like a whistle in all other browsers.