I.E with KB832894 dropping POSTed variables?

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Eric Balsa

Curious if any of you have noticed a consistent problem
with I.E 6 (all patches, including 832894 applied)
whereby refreshing a website that included POSTed
variables will sometimes lose those variables. It is
highly random, and not consistent, but has been
reproduced on over 20 different machines.

Regards,
--Eric
 
Is it similiar to the issue discussed in the following article?
821814 You Receive a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" Error Message When You Post
to
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=821814

This issue may occur again with the application of the latest IE patch.

IBTerry [MSFT]
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We are experiencing a similar problem since installing the patch and does
not seem related to the 821814 issue. We have a web site that is accessible
from our intranet with standard windows authentication and also available
externally through a secure reverse proxy server. Works fine on the
intranet but going through https on the external method causes postbacks to
work inconsistently. Trace on the .Net website indicates that the requests
do not have the postback flag set so it is treated as a page refresh or
initial display. Workstations without the 832894 patch do not have this
problem.

Is this similar to what you are seeing Eric?
 
We are testing a workaround for the IE6 POST problem introduced with
KB832894 -- at this point I cannot say if this has fixed the problem,
or simply made it a lot less likely to occur. The workaround was
simply to turn off HTTP keepalive on the server. While this has
resulted in reduced performance, at least our web application is
working properly again.

Zeph
 
It seems to be a timing issue perhaps (which is likely since behaving
'strange' :-) ) We were able to reproduce it on a https connection with
..htaccess-protection in a quite complex set of different forms that send
POST requests. Sometimes we had to try 10 times (!) until the POST-Data was
received successfully. We copied this environment to our local network and
there it's just working fine although we have the same webserver
configuration here. It also occurs quite often when sending two POST
requests shortly in a row.

Hope this Information helps...
 
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