I have a webpage that looks like:
<html>
<head>
<title>Hi</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="mainForm" method="post" action="">
<p>
<input type="checkbox" name="PLD">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
If the checkbox is not checked, form submission works in both FF and IE. However, if the checkbox is checked, it takes about two minutes to give a response in either browser! With Chrome, the form submission works even when the checkbox is checked.
I have never seen a problem like this before, so I think the problem is with my Django server (it's running through Apache 2.2.9-10 on Debian Linux). In my Apache log, I occasionally see errors like:
[Sun Jul 25 17:45:05 2010] [error] [client X.X.X.X] mod_wsgi (pid=30418): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/X/django.wsgi'., referer: X
[Sun Jul 25 18:45:06 2010] [error] [client X.X.X.X] Traceback (most recent call last):, referer: X
[Sun Jul 25 18:45:06 2010] [error] [client X.X.X.X] File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 231, in __call__, referer: X
[Sun Jul 25 18:45:06 2010] [error] [client X.X.X.X] set_script_prefix(base.get_script_name(environ)), referer: X
[Sun Jul 25 18:45:06 2010] [error] [client X.X.X.X] File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 199, in get_script_name, referer: X
[Sun Jul 25 18:45:06 2010] [error] [client X.X.X.X] return force_unicode(environ.get('SCRIPT_NAME', u'')), referer: X
[Sun Jul 25 18:45:06 2010] [error] [client X.X.X.X] File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/utils/encoding.py", line 68, in force_unicode, referer: X
[Sun Jul 25 18:45:06 2010] [error] [client X.X.X.X] s = s.decode(encoding, errors), referer: X
[Sun Jul 25 18:45:06 2010] [error] [client X.X.X.X] LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding, referer: X
This error doesn't always happen. I've searched around, but I don't know what it means.
I have tried using a DOCTYPE for the webpage, and using a META tag to set the content type charset as utf-8 or iso-8859-1. None of these helped.
Does anybody have any idea what's going on here? Thanks!
The Django code looks like:
def page(request):
return HttpResponse("""
<html>
<head>
<title>Hi</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="mainForm" method="post" action="">
<p>
<input type="checkbox" name="PLD">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
""")