IE 6 sending GET request instead of POST

mstacey · 11-23-2006, 04:18 AM

Hi,

I have a form using POST when requests the generation of a PDF report. The target for the form allows the PDF to be displayed in a new window without interfering with the page the user clicked on the form. I'm tomcat which generates the report and streams the report back with the correct content type via a servlet.

In Internet Explorer 6 I'm seeing strange behaviour in that when the form is first submitted, the PDF report is generated correctly, but if I switch back to the original page and click the link again, the form is submitted using a GET request (with no parameters). I used to simply have a standard link to generate the report but wanted to avoid any side affects of pre-fetching as the reports can sometimes take a long time to generate, this standard link seemed to work without any problems.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

thanks

Mark

11-23-2006, 04:18 AM	#1 (permalink)
mstacey Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1 OS: XP Pro	IE 6 sending GET request instead of POST Hi, I have a form using POST when requests the generation of a PDF report. The target for the form allows the PDF to be displayed in a new window without interfering with the page the user clicked on the form. I'm tomcat which generates the report and streams the report back with the correct content type via a servlet. In Internet Explorer 6 I'm seeing strange behaviour in that when the form is first submitted, the PDF report is generated correctly, but if I switch back to the original page and click the link again, the form is submitted using a GET request (with no parameters). I used to simply have a standard link to generate the report but wanted to avoid any side affects of pre-fetching as the reports can sometimes take a long time to generate, this standard link seemed to work without any problems. Any ideas what could be causing this? thanks Mark