Re: [OT] Anyone noticing weirdness with MSIE 6.0 and HTTPS requests?

From: Michael Dean (michaelldean@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 14:19:49 EST


try using another, more up to date browswer

Colin Viebrock wrote:

> Not OpenSRS related at all, I'm sorry, but I thought this might be a
> good forum to ask some people with well trafficked sites.
>
> We are noticing that maybe 1 out of 20 HTTPS requests from our clients
> using MSIE 6.0 are failing. Further digging seems to suggest that the
> data that should be POSTed with the request isn't (i.e.
> content-length: 0). Because of this, our scripts redirect them to
> another page. Then, the request for *that* page includes the POST
> data (i.e. the browser sends the data with the second request, not the
> first). You may see this on your end as empty POST requests to your
> system.
>
> It only seems to happen on MSIE 6.0 with the latest security patch
> from MS, and only on SSL requests. Just wondering if we're alone out
> here on this.
>
> - Colin
>
>



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