This little bug was driving me bonkers. From time to time, the submit buttons on our web application would stop working, but only in IE. We couldn't figure it out. Then, one of our testers entered a bug about a note field not accepting more than 4000 characters. Starting with a clean slate, all submit buttons were working. Then I added a 18,000 character string (I got a little carried away with CTRL-V) and the submit buttons stopped working! I thought about it and deleted my 18,000 character paragraph and low and behold, the submit buttons are working again!
IE is being really smart here... and stupid at the same time :) IE knows that what you are trying to send through GET will not work, so it just refuses to send the information. If I change the form's method to POST IE has no problems sending in an 18,000 character string. I just wish IE would have let me know WHY it had disabled the submit functionality, instead of just refusing to execute.
Posted by carl at November 22, 2003 09:53 AM
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