Comments do not work on Internet Explorer 8

  • any comment attempted from IE8 throws the error:
    WordPress database error Data too long for column ‘comment_agent’ at row 1 for query INSERT INTO wp_comments

    It works from IE7 and Firefox. I had this with the previous version and just updated. I am running it on an IIS6 PHP5/MySQL5 server.. I believe I have FastCGI enabled on this site too…

    any help would be appreciated…

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  • This error is occurring because IE8 that you are using has a user agent string which is too long to fit into the database. You can solve this issue by uninstalling any add-ons you have for IE8 or by accessing your database and changing the field type for comment_agent in the wp_comments table from varchar(255) to text.

    Great tip. I have a similar site setup as jlehrhoff. I could save comments successfully with FF, but not with IE7. Whenever I tried to submit a comment using IE7, I would get a blank page in return. By increasing the comment_agent field in the wp_comments table to 512, comments are now saved correctly.

    Blue Skies!

    Bill Hely described the solution quite well in his blog at https://ComputerAndOnlineSecurity.com

    astinite

    (@astinite)

    Hey ApexPilot, any directions on how to go about doing that? I’m having the same issue as you. How do you fix that?

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