Jerry, I've been trying to nail this one for a while now but have not been able to recreate - do you have a testcase that will generate the questionable POST request? What is catching the POST on the server - a CGI? What platform is the server?
Please send any further info to me directly rather than through the list. Thanks, Allan > Large POSTs, say of 8K bytes fail. When I've examined this with tcpdump, > I've seen that Internet Explorer has not sent out one POST but will > sometimes send out two or even three POSTs of the same URL. Only the first > POST that is sent out will contain the POST data. And even better, > sometimes the third POST transforms itself into a GET. It seems to be a > function of the length of the POST, but that length is not repeatable. It > happens much more often with long POSTs, say of 8K, but on occasion, I > believe I've seen it happen with as few as a 1K byte POST.