Re: what got broken in 2.2 kernels' TCP/IP?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 18:44:42 +0100 (BST)


> I've been trying to port a little webserver to Linux and
> can't find a solution to the following problem. Whenever
> MSIE or Netscape ask for a cgi script with a POST method,
> they get a "network error" when the socket gets closed.
> No problems with the GET method (nor with the contents
> returned by the script). While trying to identify

You are not reading all the data from the client. Per the RFC Linux 2.2
sends a reset to indicate to the other end that you shut down without
reading all the sent data.

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