Tim Pushor wrote:
>
> There is a first page, which POSTS form data to a second page. When I click
> the submit button on the first page, IE warns that we are about to leave the
> secure area. After clicking OK IE gives the famous 'can'd find server or dns
> error' message.
>
> If you look in the address field of IE, the proper https:// address (for the
> second page) is in it. If I click reload, repost the form data, it works. It
> then will work every time after that until IE has been shut down completely,
> then on the first invocation of the first page it happens again.
There have been other reports like this recently. The common factor
seems to be a POST request under SSL.
I have a suspicion that the problem is to do with the POST request. When
you submit a form with POST, the server gets a message that says "I'd
like to execute the CGI program - the data will be along in a separate
packet, in a minute..."
It could be that the data packet containing the POST data is failing the
SSL authentication somehow (e.g. not encrypted with the appropriate
session-key, not identified as coming from the correct client or
something).
I don't know why this should be so - does anyone have any ideas?
As a test, could you replace your POST with a GET and let us know what
happens?
Rgds,
Owen Boyle.
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