does IE for the Mac put extra spaces in form fields?

One Mac user reported that when they tried to enter their username and 
password to log in to their TracerLock account at 
http://www.tracerlock.com/ , it worked when they used Netscape 4.x, but not 
IE 5.x.  I changed the form method from "POST" to "GET" so they could copy 
down the URL of the failed login and mail it to me, and it turned out that 
they were getting:

http://www.tracerlock.com/login.cgi?username=bennett++&password=xxxxxxx

(In the URL above, I have replaced their seven-character username with my 
own seven-character username, "bennett", and replaced their seven-character 
password with "xxxxxxx".)  As the URL indicates, IE added an extra two 
spaces onto the end of their username, which is why the server rejected it 
as invalid.

Is this a known issue with IE for the Mac?  The only other thing that I can 
think of is that they might have AutoComplete turned on for forms, and 
maybe at one point they typed in "bennett  " (with the two trailing spaces) 
for their username, and now IE adds them in automatically whenever they go 
back to that page.

	-Bennett

bennett(at)peacefire.org     http://www.peacefire.org
(425) 649 9024

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