Intermittent escaping backslashes appear in output

[Tom Chadwin]

Hello all

Using PHP 4.1.2, I am seeing intermittent visible escaping backslashes
in my HTML output. Try refreshing the following page a few times to
see what I mean:

http://www.actorscentrene.co.uk/thread.php?messageThread=25

It seems totally random. Any ideas? The extra escaping backslashes are
not present in the underlying MySQL records. magic_quotes_gp c is on.

Thanks,

Tom

[Tim Tyler]

Re: Intermittent escaping backslashes appear in output

Tom Chadwin <tom.chadwin@gm ail.com> wrote or quoted:
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> Using PHP 4.1.2, I am seeing intermittent visible escaping backslashes
> in my HTML output. Try refreshing the following page a few times to
> see what I mean:
>
> http://www.actorscentrene.co.uk/thre...ssageThread=25
>
> It seems totally random. [...][/color]

It seems totally deterministic and predictable to me :-|

Calling stripslashes(.. .) before outputting looks like it would fix things.
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[Tom Chadwin]

Re: Intermittent escaping backslashes appear in output

> It seems totally deterministic and predictable to me :-|
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> Calling stripslashes(.. .) before outputting looks like it would fix things.[/color]

Probably so, but that is treating the symptom, not the cause. Why
would the backslashes only appear intermittently and not consistently?

Thanks,

Tom

[Tim Tyler]

Re: Intermittent escaping backslashes appear in output

Tom Chadwin <tom.chadwin@gm ail.com> wrote or quoted:
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> > It seems totally deterministic and predictable to me :-|[/color]
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> > Calling stripslashes(.. .) before outputting looks like it would fix things.[/color]
>
> Probably so, but that is treating the symptom, not the cause. Why
> would the backslashes only appear intermittently and not consistently?[/color]

They *did* appeare totally consistently when I observed your page.

*Now* they don't appear (also consistently).

In both cases I tested using many page refreshes.

I presume this indicates that you have resolved the problem.
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[Tom Chadwin]

Re: Intermittent escaping backslashes appear in output

> I presume this indicates that you have resolved the problem.

No. I have altered nothing. I, too, cannot get them to appear now. As
I say, intermittent.

Thanks,

Tom