Question

I posed this problem once before, but there have been no answers posted. I would really like to find a work around or a solution for this problem.

I recently upgraded to the TWiki01Sep2001 version running on a Sun Solaris server. Our departmental workstations were running Win95, with IE5 as web client. Everything worked just fine with TWiki.

Shortly thereafter our departmental desktops were "upgraded" to Win2k with IE5 as web client. Suddenly many things in TWiki won't work, such as uploading attachments over around 800k, and editing and saving certain pages. Really unusable.

We have gone back to check the operation of computers still running Win95, as well as Solaris workstations running Netscape 4.7 and Opera 5. Everything with TWiki works fine with these. Just not with Win2k and IE5.

Does anyone else see this? What is the problem? How do I fix it? My IS department requires that we run Win2k and IE5!

• TWiki version: 01SEP2001
• Web server: Apache 1.32
• Server OS: Solaris
• Web browser: IE5
• Client OS: Win2000

-- PascalNelson - 05 Nov 2001

Answer

Truncated uploads may be because of an ill-configured http proxy. Check that the Win2k+IE5 install doesn't use a proxy by default, and if it is the case, try to bypass the proxy...

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Thanks, but - Nope. I disabled the proxy (actually it's an autoconfig script) completely. No go. Still the same problem. No worky.

Any other ideas or suggestions?

-- ColasNahaboo - 06 Nov 2001

I have a Win2000 workstation and have used IE5.0 and 5.5 with this, without problem, using Apache 1.3.x on a Linux server. I'm using the March beta.

Some debugging suggestions:

• Try running a proxy, such as junkbuster, and turn on all debugging so you can see what is being sent
• Put some writeDebug statements into the TWiki code, so you can see what is going on.
• Run tcpdump on the server (or maybe workstation) for TCP-level details.

-- RichardDonkin - 12 Nov 2001