Re: IIS 6 - HTTP From ActiveX Control Problem

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From: David Wang [Msft] (someone_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:48:05 -0800

I'd like to have a Network Monitor capture of the failing POST (including
HTTP and TCP level traffic) and please send it here.

Otherwise, please give me a simplified working page that uses the control,
instructions on how to reproduce the error (including request URL/name,
upload file size, location of saving file, other IIS configuration,
everything), and I'll see if I can reproduce it for debugging.

My gut feeling is that it is probably an issue with the ActiveX control. I
can POST hundreds of megabytes of data, no truncation, using my own client
against IIS6, so I know it is possible to POST correctly to IIS6. It is a
matter of the client code being correct, at that point. 

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<alarrabee@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Has anyone else seen this issue?  We are having a similar issue with
the amont of data an ActiveX control receives back from IIS 6.  In IIS
5 it is the complete data but in IIS6 it seems to be truncated.
GF wrote:
> We recently moved an application to IIS 6 that utilizes and ActiveX
> control that performs an HTTP Post to upload files from the local
> client.  The POST is done with the "Internet Transfer Control"
> library.  It was working fine in  IIS4 and IIS5, but now since we've
> moved it, the files are not being uploaded.  The ASP post handler
> script works fine manually when upload a file from a HTML form, but
> not from this control anymore.
>
> Is there something I need to configure in IIS6?
>
> Here are some additional details:
> 1) ActiveFile is used as a post handler.  Works fine manually and
> permissions are set correctly.
> 2) IIS log indicates that that HTTP post is fine.  It returns a 200
> code. See example:
> 2003-08-20 18:20:49 169.236.x.x POST /admin/web_editor/post.asp - 80
> adminuser 169.x.x.x Microsoft+URL+Control+-+6.00.8862 200 0 0
> 3) URLScan was installed, but has been removed just in case.
> 4) Here is a sample of the body of the request:
> --AaB03x
> Content-Disposition: attachment; name=""FILE1"";
> filename="filename.gif"
> Content-Type: image/jpeg
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
>
>
> ... BINARY CODE HERE...
> --AaB03x--
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

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