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Thread: mulitple POSTs with MAC IE5

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    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.

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

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

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    thanks but...

    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.

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    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


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    Smile Thanks

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

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    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

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