Re: Problem with AOL Web browser

Martin Simmons <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:45:47 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cl-http
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:40:15 +0100, David Johnson-Davies said:
> 
> Has anyone encountered the following problem with CL-HTTP on AOL?
> 
> I have a CL-HTTP based Web site that seems to work fine with most browsers.
> 
> However, with the AOL Web browser it gives a blank page with just three
> characters such as "EA4" or "E1D" displayed in the upper left-hand corner.
> 
> A typical page that causes this problem is the html-computed-form:
> 
> http://www.fontifier.com/submit.html
> 
> I am running cl-http-70-156 on Macintosh Common Lisp 4.3 on Mac OS 9.2 (yes,
> I know, I should upgrade!).

I suspect it is caused by http chunking -- the EA4 and E1D strings are
probably chunk sizes.

It looks like the chunking in the MCL version of CL-HTTP is not quite
compliant with the standard and possibly the AOL browser doesn't tolerate
this.

__Martin

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