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RE: POSTing images?!!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Denny)
Fri Nov 18 04:35:01 1994
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 10:04:13 +0100
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Reply-To: rdenny@netcom.com
From: Bob Denny <rdenny@netcom.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
>I've noticed an alarming thing about a large class of browsers:
>[... large list of browsers ...]
>That they POST the requests for IMGs in the results of a POST method.
>You're going what does he mean?
>[... explanation ...]
>This is my only theory.
>
>Has anyone else seen this, or can somebody quantify it better.
Ab-so-lutely. I have been the butt of many bug accusations (Windows Web
server) stemming from that behavior. Once you see it, it's pretty
obvious. And IMHO it is a serious bug. I cannot believe it is in so many
browsers, though.
-- Bob
