web form issues due to post fields being truncated

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:20:34 -0000

I have been having trouble getting a login working using the the
browser module, this is only happening on one particular server which is
RHEL6 - php 5.3.13.

Basically the login fails, with the remote server rejecting the request.
On closer inspection, the post parameters appear to be truncated. i.e
there is a validation key that should be

"/wEWBgKg39dCAtHo2bAJAoCO7/gFAraE6F8CoejZkAICz5yEggoKjWoDPyV4u4qbEbtGzIJvWG8IkA=="

but simpletest appears to be sending the following in the post instead

""/wEWBgKg39dCAtHo2bAJAoCO7/gFAraE6F8CoejZkAICz5yEggoKjWoDPyV4u4qbEbtGzIJvWG8IkA"

It appears the the '=' characters are being stripped off by mergeAttributes() in tidy_parser.php, however it also appears that the unaffected machines do not take this code path.

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