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RE: POSTing images?!!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wmperry@spry.com)
Fri Nov 18 13:01:41 1994
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 18:42:39 +0100
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Bob Denny writes:
>
> >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.
The joy of global variables like 'request_method' and such. :)
-Bill P.
