Hi,

Back in June 2006, I asked about the content-type header as it relates to a form post from a mobile phone browser. The original message that I sent can be seen here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/perl-asp/200606.mbox/%3CBAY113-F338CCAE926ACAC394078A3BF7A0@...%3E

In a nutshell, in most situations, the browser will send the content-type header as 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' but some browsers under certain circumstances, add additional information at the end of the content-type header string. In particular, Firefox 3 is sending 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8' when a POST request is initiated through AJAX. This causes the form elements being submitted in AJAX to be ignored.

I manually did a change on the Apache::ASP::Request module to correct this problem, changing the line

     if($headers_in->get('Content-Type') eq 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')

to

    if($headers_in->get('Content-Type') =~ m|^application/x-www-form-urlencoded|) {

which solved the problem. However, as the change wasn't bundled into Apache::ASP back then, I'm wondering if there's something else I should be doing to solve this problem?

Thanks for any feedback.

.rw

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