Back in Mid October Jonathan Ellis started this thread:
ns_returnredirect breaks with nsvhr and IE? (1)
He states the problem:
...but IE abruptly stopped honoring ns_returnredirects,
complaining, "The page cannot be displayed." I upgraded my nsvhr
patches to Jerry's v.6 but it is still happening...
Later in the thread, Johnathan offers patch
77 which "provides ad_returnredirect from ACS 3.4 and up. Save in
tcl lib dir." Ok, this sorta solves the problem for returnredirect but
it does not address the problem for:
- The OLD: ReturnHeaders ns_write "...
- The NEW: ns_return 200 text/html $page_content
For example, bboard in OACS 3.2.4 uses <form... and
ReturnHeaders in the progression:
- q-and-a-post-new.tcl - <form... button
- confirm.tcl - <form... button
- insert-msg.tcl
No returnredirect is used in this process of posting.
I have customized bboard to use the newer
ns_return 200 text/html $page_content.
In both cases IE fails with big posts and NS does not.
I used a test with a body of 18000 bytes and larger.
the failure is "Request Error Missing form data..." and
sometimes a partial page.
The above is using: AOLserver/3.3.1+ad13 with Jerry Asher's virtual
hosting changes.
My users are complaining because we use forms to allow
verbose postings (and not just bboard) AND it is NOT a solution to
tell 'em to use Netscape... Only one of my users has upgraded!
Solutions? Is this a problem with newer versions of
AOL server. Are there other patches I may be missing.
Is this only a problem with Jerry's Virtual hosting?
-Bob
REFS:
https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0002ys
https://openacs.org/sdm/one-patch.tcl?patch_id=77
