Re: Posting data to secure site fails

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From: Tom Wood (twood_at_ehealthindiana.com)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:50:09 -0500

This seems to have fixed the issue. Will it be available in a critical
update soon?

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:uV4liQYEEHA.712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> "Tom Wood" <webmaster@pack207.com> wrote in message
> news:OhHJKmUEEHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl
> > I think I may have found another bug in IE.
> >
> > I have developed a web page to send payments online to paypal. I am
> > using the default self signed cert for the site. However, when I am
> > sending several fields of data, IE does not actually post the data.
> > It does goto the page, just without data.
> >
> > I have tried it over http and it works every time. But with https,
> > it fails MOST of the time. It always works with netscape 7.1
> > regardless of ssl.
> >
> > If you would like to see it in action, visit
> > https://www.pack207.com/pay. Select one of the payment options and it
> > will present the input data. When entering 3-5, it will fail most of
> > the time with IE 6 sp1 on win2k or xp. Cant really speak to other
> > versions of ie as I do not have them available any longer. Have
> > tried from different networks as well as os.
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions? Reccomendations?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Tom Wood
>
> See if this helps.
> Wininet retries POST requests with a blank header
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=831167
>
> Please post back.
>
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