[BusyBox] Method Post in Internet Explorer

[Vladimir N. Oleynik]

Bernd,

>>>>  I have problens whith cgi scripts. The cgi run successful in browser
>>>>  Mozilla(linux). When i run in Internet Explorer(windows) occur error. I
>>>
>>>Which error exactly? What does IE print on the screen?
>>>
>>>
>>>>  am believe this is because the method post. I am using the
>>>
>>>Since it happens with IE and not with Mozilla, IE is probably the
>>>reason.
>>
>>Why guess? Use The Force^Wtcpdump.
> 
> 
> There are IEs out there (5.0, 5.5 or 6.-0 - can't remember exactly
> which) wich actually sent 2 (IIRC) bytes more than they say in the HTTP
> size parameter. If you don't read these superflous bytes but simply
> close the TCP connection the user may see an error message.

But
http://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/networking/httpd.c?r1=1.22&r2=1.23
have hack for "correct" this.
(but small strange, may be not work with inetd, must change
"a_c_w" to "a_c_r", and change version)


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