The SSL_EXPERIMENTAL directive makes no difference in this case.

Isn�t it spooky that it works if we use SSLLogLevel debug?

Our test application is a simple servlet which only reads the request data
from the input stream.

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Fr�n: Ralf S. Engelschall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Skickat: den 18 oktober 1999 20:52
> Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> �mne: Re: File POST problem using MSIE
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 18, 1999, Johansson, Fredrik wrote:
> 
> > We have encountered a problem concerning the file upload 
> browser feature in
> > MSIE (4 and 5) together with SSL. The  transfer hangs, and 
> never completes,
> > if the file (i.e. POST request) is larger than ~30kB. 
> Everything works fine
> > when SSL is disabled. Needles to say but it works just fine 
> with Netscape.
> > 
> > An interesting thing is that if we turn on debug level 
> logging for the ssl
> > engine, the upload completes, but takes a lot of time and 
> disk space.
> > 
> > We have found some information on an issue with MSIE and 
> IIS sending SSLV3
> > packets which are to large. There is supposed to exist a 
> config directive
> > for SSLeay called SSL_OP_MICROSOFT_BIG_SSLV3_BUFFER. 
> Anybody succeeded in
> > enabling it?
> > 
> > We use:
> > Apache 1.3.9
> > mod_ssl 2.4.2-1.3.9
> > win32 platform
> > 
> > Anybody else seen anything like this?
> 
> First, did you have SSL_EXPERIMENTAL enabled when compiling 
> mod_ssl or are
> you're not using the experimental code.  If you're not using 
> the experimental
> code, POST requests will certainly fail under lots of 
> situations. You've to at
> least enable SSL_EXPERIMENTAL to get POST working correctly.  
> If you already
> have the experimental code enabled, I've currently no clue 
> why it doesn't
> work.
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