Hi AOLserver folks, we're seeing a AOLserver problem in production on AOL.COM. Unfortunately, they're running a very outdated version (2.3.3), just wanted to make sure you guys fixed this problem in later releases, here it is.
Magic Carpet is POSTing to www.aol.com, which in turn issues a redirect. This causes IE5.5 and IE6 to display a "page not found" error in certain circumstances. Weird circumstances. Turns out it relates to the number of packets sent by the browser: We have following events sequence: ��� 1) IE sends first request TCP packet to aol.com server with HTTP header: ��� � ��� POST /index.adp HTTP/1.0 ��� ��� � ......� ��� ��� ��� �Content-Length: 393 ��� ��� �.... ��� 2) AOL.com server *immidiatelly* replies with HTTP 302 redirect ��� 3) IE continues request and sends second TCP packet with HTTP body: ��� �� �siteId=aolcomprodStage&siteState..... ��� 4) IE starts listening for reply from AOL.com server ��� 5) IE failed to recieve data from AOL.com server (because reply was already sent on step 2) ��� and shows error page to user So the AOL server bug� is that redirect is done *before* recieving HTTP body for POST request. If you turn on a proxy for the web browser, the problem goes away, because this way the packets come back in order. Again, we're aware that AOLserver version 2.3.3 is outdated -- but can you guys confirm the problem will go away if we update to a more recent release? Any help apprechiated. -- Mike Mike Schilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Magic Carpet Engineering
