[imp] Re: Help w/IMP -- IE attachment bug

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting George Garrett <shinobu at columbia.edu>:

| >It turns out that the garbled data stream causes the server to
| completely
| >ignore the first POST data item.  Thus, the solution is to insert a
| dummy
| >POST field when using an IE 6+ browser as the first field.  This field
| is
| >ignored and the second field (which is MAX_FILE_SIZE in HEAD, actionID
| in
| >3.2) is correctly parsed.
| 
| You are a genius.  This problem has been tormenting our postmasters and
| support staff for months.  Is there a patch available?  Or do you have
| code or pseudocode that I can insert into a specific file in the IMP
| distribution.  Please help, and keep in mind that I'm not an expert
| in HTTP protocol.  How exactly would I insert a dummy POST field that
| fools IE into working?  Thanks.

If using IMP 3.1, make the following change:
http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/imp/templates/compose/compose.inc?
r1=2.123.2.22&r2=2.123.2.23&ty=h

Or else, wait for IMP 3.2.

michael

______________________________________________
Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder