XP service Pack 2 issue

[Mike]

My company's website has an ASP page with a HTML <FORM>
tag and a SUBMIT button. Clicking the SUBMIT button does
a basic Form POST. We have two user's running IE 6 on a
XP box with service pack 2 installed. When they click
the Submit button, nothing happens. There is also a 3rd
user that only has Service pack 1 installed, and they do
NOT have this problem. The Form Post works fine for them
when they click Submit.

Has anybody seen this and/or know anything about this?

 

[PA Bear]

I'd say your company needs to update the coding on the page to be in line
with added security measures SP2 brings to machines, Mike.
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[MIke]

It's a simple Form Post. Are you saying every person in
the world that has a web page executing a Form Post is
going to have to change their code for SP2? And it's
built-in functionality - it's clicking a "Submit"
button. Exactly what code is it that I would need to
change to make a Form Post work?

 

[PA Bear]

Try posting to
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.vb.6.webdevelopment, Mike. The
topic is outside of the IE-user focus of this newsgroup. Also see:

WinXP SP2 for IT Professionals
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/default.mspx

 

[Greg R]

Mike,
Those with xp sp2 rtm. Some controls have been restricted. You
might try experimenting with settings-In Control Panel-Internet
Options-Security-Custom level.

Mike, does have a point people should have not have to change their
website to be compatible with xp sp2. There are some people who won’t
use xp sp2 and some people that don’t even use windows xp.

Mozilla Firefox is even gaining ground. Even with it bugs.


Greg R

 

[Guest]

Hi Mike,
I have a similar problem - did you ever get a resolution?

My problem - I have an application that embeds IE. I find that after SP2,
if the amount of data posted from a form is larger than some limit, something
messes up and the HTTP message is not handled correctly. The cutoff seems
to be a content-length of about 1000 bytes. In fact, the message is
submitted twice, unless the IE setting "Show friendly http error messages" is
turned on, in which case it freezes.

Suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Charlie

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Hi Mike,
I have a similar problem - did you ever get a resolution?

My problem - I have an application that embeds IE. I find that after SP2,
if the amount of data posted from a form is larger than some limit, something
messes up and the HTTP message is not handled correctly. The cutoff seems
to be a content-length of about 1000 bytes. In fact, the message is
submitted twice, unless the IE setting "Show friendly http error messages" is
turned on, in which case it freezes.

Suggestions?

Is there a sample URL you can cite for testing?

Have you tested this with IE6 base to see if it a case
of fix regression? At least one such case seems to have occurred
in XPsp2.


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