[BusyBox] Method Post in Internet Explorer

Bernd Petrovitsch bernd at firmix.at
Wed Jan 26 11:30:19 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:12 +0300, Vladimir N. Oleynik wrote:
[...]
> > 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.

Good.
But does this work for CGI-scripts too since CGIs are usually startezd
via fork()+execve()?
We had the experience with thttpd and patched the CGI script in a
similar (but much simpler) way.

	Bernd
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