Re: POSTing images?!!?

Kent Fitch ([email protected])
Fri, 18 Nov 1994 12:41:51 +1100 (EST)


On Fri, 18 Nov 1994, David Koblas wrote:

> I've noticed an alarming thing about a large class of browsers:
>
> [lots of the browsers listed]
>
> That they POST the requests for IMGs in the results of a POST method.
> You're going what does he mean? This is what I belive is
> happening:
>
> A user enters a CGI script and does a POST to submit it.
> A resulting HTML document is returned, containing new
> icon images, which the browser does then _incorrectly_
> does a POST to retrive those images.
>
> This is my only theory.
>
> Has anyone else seen this, or can somebody quantify it better.
>
> Thanks
> [email protected]

I can confirm that this is definately what WinMosaic 2.0 Alpha x does -
it was such a stumbling block for us that we changed the NCSA HTTPD 1.3
source to change POST requests for *.gif into GET requests.

Kent Fitch Ph: +61 6 276 6711
ITSB CSIRO Canberra Australia [email protected]
"Refinement --> Luxury --> Decadence"