[pmwiki-devel] problem with POST vs GET in form

[Peter Bowers]

FWIW: This problem was resolved via a re-install of pmwiki.

-Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pmwiki-devel-bounces at pmichaud.com [mailto:pmwiki-devel-
> bounces at pmichaud.com] On Behalf Of Peter Bowers
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 7:59 PM
> To: pmwiki-devel at pmichaud.com
> Subject: [pmwiki-devel] problem with POST vs GET in form
> 
> OK, I've been able to greatly simplify this problem.  And I've even
> eliminated the form because the standard edit form (since it uses
> POST) reproduces the problem just fine.
> 
> Here's the text I have to put in the page:
> 
> ===(snip)===
> {(writeapage Test.Test)}
> ===(snip)===
> 
> Here's the underlying code with the definition for the markup expression.
> 
> ===(snip)===
> $MarkupExpr['writeapage'] = 'WriteAPage($pagename, @$argp, @$args)';
> function WriteAPage($pagename, $opt, $args)
> {
>     $pn = MakePagename($pagename, $args[0]);
>     if (!$pn) return('must specify pagename');
>     $page = RetrieveAuthPage($pn, 'edit');
>     $newpage = $page;
>     $newpage['text'] = 'RANDOM: ' . rand(0,10000);
>     if (!UpdatePage($pn, $page, $newpage))
>         echo "ERROR: UpdatePage()<br>\n";
>     return;
> }
> ===(snip)===
> 
> When I have that code in config.php and I attempt to save a page with
> that source I consistently get this error:
> 
> ===(snip)===
> Internal Server Error
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
> unable to complete your request.
> 
> Please contact the server administrator, support at supportwebsite.com
> and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might
> have done that may have caused the error.
> 
> More information about this error may be available in the server error
> log.
> 
> Apache/1.3.33 Server at bookofknowledge.org Port 80
> ===(snip)===
> 
> I emphasize that this is *not* reproducible on other hosts that I have
> tried -- just on this one host.
> 
> Does anybody have any idea of any settings that would cause this error
> on the exit from a markup expression if (1) the markup expression
> writes to a page via UpdatePage() and (2) there is any data in the
> $_POST...?
> 
> -Peter
> 
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