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Re: SUNet Surflets using POST method and Internet Explorer

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Subject: Re: SUNet Surflets using POST method and Internet Explorer
From: Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net>
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:43:20 +0100
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Michael Sperber writes:

> Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net> writes:

>> Closing the request's input-port (in `get-bindings') results in a core
>> dump of the SUNet server.  Ouch!

> Backtrace?

This was on Windows/Cygwin and it seems that I can't reproduce this
(and another "interesting" problem that I'm having) in a decent
environment.

It would be interesting to check if closing the request's input-port
(with the server running on a decent OS) does solve the problem with
Explorer.  It would be a better/simple solution than twiddling the
buffering.  But I don't have Windows at home and no Unix access at
work, so I can't test this.  Anyone?

Also PLT's server has some code to cope with an Explorer bug.  From 
collects/web-server/private/request.ss:

   ; to work around a bug in MSIE for documents < 265 bytes when connecting 
from the local
   ; machine.  The server could pad the response as MSIIS does, but closing the 
connection works, too.
   ; We do not check for version numbers since IE 6 under windows is 5.2 under 
macosX

But this doesn't seem to be the same bug I encountered because I was
also having this problem when connection from another machine and it
was independent of the document size.

Oh, well...

-- 
Emílio C. Lopes
Munich, Germany

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