Thanks, I'll tell the user to upgrade their browser. dave
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 16:51, Adrian Sutton wrote: > I'm not sure there's actually a fix, just an idea of how to create one. I > don't develop or use FileUpload so I'm not really a good person to talk to > about this, but I do get all the jakarta-commons bugzilla emails which is > how I know this stuff. I've found the email I was thinking of: > > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23229 > > File Upload Not Compatible With IE 5.2.3 MacOS X > > > > > > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-02-01 03:28 > ------- > OK, I've finally figured out what's going on here, and it's really bizarre. > The > problem is caused by a strange bug in IE 5.23 for Mac. It seems that, when > writing the boundary (as a separator), the browser terminates the line with > only an LF character, instead of the CR LF pair - but only sometimes! (When > writing headers - either the HTTP headers or the part headers - it always > correctly writes out CR LF.) > > In the Ethereal sniffer output attached to this bug report (thanks for that, > > Jesse), we can see that the boundaries are correct until a binary part is > uploaded. The boundary following that is incorrect, and the one after that > is > incorrect as well, but after that, it seems to go back to correct > boundaries. > This is a really weird pattern, and I thought it might be a fluke, but it's > repeated, in exactly the same manner, the next time a binary part is > encountered. How someone managed to code that one up is beyond me! > > I'm very reluctant to change FileUpload to accommodate this, for a couple of > > reasons. Firstly, it's clearly a bug in Mac IE 5.23, so the fix should be in > > that code. Secondly, hacking FileUpload to work around this bug will > complicate > the code quite a bit, and probably cause a performance problem on *all* > platforms. > > I'd like to hear from Mac users about (a) how prevalent IE 5.23 is on Macs, > (b) > how recent it is, and (c) whether or not the problem exists in earlier or > later > versions. Also, it would be good if someone could check that a bug report > has > been entered against Mac IE 5.23. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
