mulitple POSTs with MAC IE5

HELP!!!
I am trying to send variables to an ASP page useing loadVariables and POST. Everything works fine on the PC, and the MAC if I use GET or if I use GetURL. However, I dont want to open a new window when I send the data, and the amount of data I want to send could potentially be quite large, thus the need for LoadVariables and POST. The problem is that I need to send data several times - the first POST always works, but the second POST seems to hang the browser, the third will sometimes work.

Has anyone seen something similar, and more importantly, know a fix?

TIA.

Do you have to use POST or could you use a query string:

loadVariablesNum ("aspfile.asp?var1=value1&var2=value2", 0);

What you are suggesting is a manual way of doing GET. I need to use POST because of the potentially large amount of data I will be sending.

Thanks for your reply.

Hi mroven,
your problem is definately a BUG with Flash and IE5.0 on Mac.
I encountered this problem long time ago with Flash4 and also some time ago with Flash5.
You can read more about it at this thread:
http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=132302

There is also a link to a test swf, but the link currently doesn´t work because my provider has some problems. I´ll let you know when the testlink works again.

There seem to be two workarounds for this bug:
first one is using GET as you also discovered,
and the second one is waiting some time before doing the next POST.
In my testings I found out that there are about 20 seconds needed to make the next POST work... very strange :(

Thanks for the info! It is most helpful!
-mr oven

Hi mroven,
the test swf is working again (had to modify the skorekeeper cgi).
see it at http://www.neuemedienkunst.de/test/sk_test.html

Cheers
Markus