SUNet Surflets using POST method and Internet Explorer

["Andreas Bernauer" <andreas.bernauer@gmx.de>]

Hello Emilio,

On 12/24/06, Emilio Lopes < eclig@gmx.net> wrote:

I'm having a hard time using web forms with the POST method in
conjunction with Microsoft's Explorer (Version 6, XP SP2).


Getting the bindings off of the form definitely works, I can print the
input to the terminal after `send-html/suspend' returns.  It's the
sending of the second page that fails somehow.

The equivalent servlet works fine using PLT's web server, but I find
PLT Scheme painful for interactive development and their servlet
library is not so programmer friendly as SUNet's.

Can anyone provide any insight on this problem?  I don't know where to
start looking for a solution or workaround.

We had  problems getting IE work with our SUnet FTP server, too. I don't have IE available currently, but I can look into the problem next week. I suspect the problem lies with the closing/not closing of the POST data channel. What you can try is to close / not close the POST data channel after receiving data (depending on how it is curerntly done in SURflets). IIRC, IE is very sensitive to what the webserver does or does not. 
Furthermore, you may want to use a packet sniffer to check which data IE sends and receives and how this data differs from what Firefox sends and receives.

I am sorry I can't help you more at the moment. I'll look into it next week. Let me know, if 
you have interesting results or more questions.

Cheers,

Andreas.