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Hi everyone. First of all, sorry for my english! I'm writing here because I'm having problems with some forms. Sometimes I receive empty forms. For exampe, sometimes I receive 2 forms, with the same IP address (so, I think, sent from the same user), and one form is empty. Other times, I receive only one form, with all fields empty. Notice that in the form there are 8 fields, four of which are required, so the form can't be sent without these informations.
I tested many times all the pages in which there's the form, but I had no problems.
How can I solve this situation?

Thank you very much, Rossana

Hi Rossana,

Do you have any server side validation? Please see this FAQ

Bob

Hi Bob,
I have no server side validation yet. I'm checking FAQs to solve the problem.

So, do you think empty forms are sent by spam, and not by real users? Is it possible that users fill in the fields, but the server losts informations?

Bye, Rossana

Hi Rossana,

They may be spammers, or, if the forms are empty, web scanners, or possibly double submissions, It's unlikely that the data has been lost after submission unless the form setup is very strange.

Bob

Hi Bob,
thank you for your answer, it was very helpful to me.
I did no change in my form's settings yet. In the last two weeks I had very little empty forms. I analyzed the form sender's IP and I discovered it was sent often by googlebot or other web scanners. Other times empty forms were generated by double submissions. I was scared about the loss of informations by the server, but as you wrote, the form setup is very strange.

So, thank you very much again,
Rossana