[10161] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
RE: POST forms & Netscape Navigator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Yan)
Thu Jul 25 11:08:46 1996
From: Charles Yan <cyan@compscape.com>
To: "www-talk@w3.org" <www-talk@w3.org>, "'matt@wdi.co.uk'"
<matt@wdi.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:04:05 -0400
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
it is probably something in your code.
have you done a simple test with a telnet client and something simple as following.
POST /somescript HTTP/1.0 CRLF
Content-Type: text/plain CRLF
Content-Length: 10 CRLF
CRLF
some data match the length
CRLF
CRLF
check in your server to see if the data got there.
Hope it helps
Charles
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From: Matthew Denner[SMTP:matt@wdi.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 1996 10:52 AM
To: www-talk@w3.org
Subject: POST forms & Netscape Navigator
All,
I've been working on a HTTPd for about 6 months now and when I started
Netscape Navigator 1.0 worked fine with POST forms. Now I find that
my POST forms don't work with Navigators 2.0 and above. I understand
that I get a POST response from the client and I can retrieve the
header information but where does the actual data come from?
With Navigator 1.0 the data was sent along with the header separated
by at least 2 CRLF's. Now I just get the header and the server sits
in an infinite loop waiting for the data. Have Netscape altered the
way their browser works? Does the data get sent on a different port?
Or does the server have to send a response to the header so that the
data can be sent by the client?
This may seem a stupid set of questions but this is really starting to
try my patience :)
Matt
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