236164 - HTTP POST hangs between header and body

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Bradley Vender]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

We're using a simple custom HTTP server which does a rough job of implementing
POST and GET methods.  What we are expecting is

POST .....
rest of POST header

POST body

What we are getting is that Mozilla 1.5 and Firefox 0.8 stop between the header
and the body.  There are no Expect elements in the POST header, and nothing
short of sending an error header and closing the connection without receiving
the POST body seems to produce a result (and doesn't do any good since then we
haven't received the POST body).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bring up http://vcell.ndsu.nodak.edu:8101/mozilla-test/
2. Click on submit form button
3. Observe the spinning logo button until the connection times out.

Actual Results:  
The server receives the following data:

POST /mozilla-test/ HTTP/1.1
Host: vcell.ndsu.nodak.edu:8101
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://vcell.ndsu.nodak.edu:8101/mozilla-test/
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 25



Expected Results:  
The server should have received the body of the POST after the POST header.

Comment 1

[Bradley Vender]

Installed ethereal to look at traffic, and server is indeed being sent the POST
body.  User error.

Comment 2

[benc]

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