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Re: POSTing images?!!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cwilson@spry.com)
Thu Nov 17 22:32:25 1994
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 04:05:00 +0100
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From: cwilson@spry.com
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>I've noticed an alarming thing about a large class of browsers:
>...
>That they POST the requests for IMGs in the results of a POST method.
>You're going what does he mean? This is what I belive is
>happening:
>
> A user enters a CGI script and does a POST to submit it.
> A resulting HTML document is returned, containing new
> icon images, which the browser does then _incorrectly_
> does a POST to retrive those images.
Hmm... I think you're right (I can see how this would have happened), however
with some restructuring in AIR Mosaic in the next release (coming soon), that
will no longer happen. Definitely a nasty bug, just not one that turns up to
often, I guess.
-Chris Wilson
AIR Mosaic Development Team
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