Problem with gathering password on MAC

[Kelicula]

Hello all!
I am having this strange problem with the login on my current project site.
I am getting a username and password from the user, and then crypt'ing the password, and comparing it to a saved crypt'd password.
Now everything works fine, on my Windows comp. But my partner is using a Mac, and he can only sucessfully login by clicking the "login" submit button.
If he presses [enter] it kicks back my error message that the password is incorrect.
I have tried chomp, and subsituting "\r, and \n" for nothing, thinking it had something to do with a renegade newline being inserted into the password.
That didn't help.

I have never heard of a cgi script being platform fussy.

Has anyone ever heard of this, or know what could be causing it?

Here's my code (omitting my SQL password, and Handle):

[Admin Edit: Code removed at posters request]

[Kelicula]

I almost forgot to mention we are both accessing the same script hosted on our server. We live in different towns.

So it isn't a problem of running the script on our separate systems.

[eWish]

I don't see anything in your code that would cause what you are describing. It could simply be a browser issue. What browser are you using and what browser is your friend using?

--Kevin

[Kelicula]

I don't see anything in your code that would cause what you are describing. It could simply be a browser issue. What browser are you using and what browser is your friend using?

--Kevin

I have tried it with Firefox and IE 7, he is using Opera, on the new Mac system.
Like I say, he can login by clicking the login button, but we both agree that many people will just hit enter, and become discouraged by this error.
However you CAN just hit enter, on a windows system.

????

crazy huh?

I tried, grabbing the password associated with the username from the database, and recording the length, then only using the substring of the user-submitted password to that length, thus chopping off whatever was at the end, but....then I remembered that they are crypt'd and are always going to be 13 characters no matter what they started with....

I'm at a standstill.

[Kelicula]

Update, just in case anyone else ever runs into this.
We located the problem.

It's his keyboard. He has a "Bluetooth" keyboard, and that's the only thing we can think of, that it could be.

He has been able to login on a Mac, Safari, Firefox, IE, with hitting enter.

Only when he uses the bluetooth keyboard does he have a problem.

Very odd.

[KevinADC]

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