From: Dave Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 4:36 PM
> My turn to ask a stupid question.
>
> I have a file upload script which works fine in Netscape Navigator
> (4.x) but under IE5 it insists on writing files of zero bytes.
>
> Does anyone know of any differences between the way that these
> two browsers work that would explain this discrepancy?
Thanks for the help, both by private mail and on IRC.
The problem was that multipart/form-data forms require a method of 'POST'. Netscape knows this, so when my form had no method it used 'POST'. IE was less clever and used the standard default method of 'GET'. This leads to tears before bedtime and zero-sized files.
In this case it seems that IE is sticking to the standards, whilst Netscape is being too clever.
> p.s. I may be speaking too soon, but I think I've stopped posting
> HTML emails :)
Actually, that may be because I was posting from another account. This email wil lbe the test.
Cheers,
Dave...
