Yep. I ran into the same issues with IE that you are. My report was a little smaller than yours but I had the same problems. I had to return a zip file and then have the jsp handle the zip file. Yucky but it worked. --- Greg Nudelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question for the Gurus: > > I got a Java App server sending a long HTML report (2-5 Mb) to the > Java > Servlet and Java Servlet (Apache JServ) then sends it to the > client. I am > seeing a very strange IE 5.50 behavior: > > 1) IE POST (client waits ~5 min) > -- about 50% of the info comes back > 2) Weird: IE automatically re-posts the request (client waits ~5 > min AGAIN!) > -- some info comes back (100%?) > 3) Weird: Immediately, IE issues a GET > -- servlet immediately replies: "400 GET not supported" > > I got to use IE, but for some strange reason, IE decides to refresh > and make > the user wait another 5 minutes for this report, and then of, > course GET > breaks it altogether. BTW: Tried it with Netscape 6.2, it hangs on > trying > to parse this size of HTML file, but it does not re-issue a POST > and does > not produce a GET. > > I have some options, but they are very limited: > > can't send them the report in the email > can't request report via GET > can't produce a report and store it in the web folder for later, as > I have > multiple concurrent machines that do not share hard drive space. > can't make it return faster then 5 min > > CAN TRY to make it return a zip file from the POST. > > Has anyone run into this IE issue and does anyone know a way to get > the > users a secure long HTML report in a sensible fashion? > > Thanks in a advance, > > Greg > > > To change your membership options, refer to: > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm >
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