# File uploads giving "page not found" on IE

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-uploads-giving-page-not-found-on-ie/77440>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 6, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-uploads-giving-page-not-found-on-ie/77440 "2006-03-06T20:35:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-uploads-giving-page-not-found-on-ie/77440/1 "2006-03-06T20:35:52Z")

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I am having a really wierd problem in IE. I have a simple file upload  
form with two selects and a textarea. This is a medical transcription  
application - very simply an administrator can upload a file and assign  
it to both a doctor and a transcriptionist at the same time and  
optionally provide a note to the transcriptionist.

If I remove the MT selector, it always works. If it’s on there,  
some/most of the time we get a “page cannot be displayed”. This is  
only in production, not development, and only in IE. Of course, when I  
get “page cannot be displayed”, nothing shows up in lighty’s log.

I use the same form for doctors, just with the extra three fields  
removed, and needless to say, it seems to always work then.

Anybody seen this and have a potential workaround? Besides Mozilla?

I’ll post code if anyone thinks it’ll help. There’s very little  
involved.

## Thanks, Michael

Michael Darrin Chaney  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
[http://www.michaelchaney.com/](http://www.michaelchaney.com/)

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**Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-uploads-giving-page-not-found-on-ie/77440/2 "2006-03-07T03:31:56Z")

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would you please post code?

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**Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 7:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-uploads-giving-page-not-found-on-ie/77440/3 "2006-03-07T07:58:37Z")

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Michael,

I have noticed the same problem on my own upload’s of files. Do you  
happen to be running behind Lighttpd SSL, because I only notice that my  
file  
uploads are broken when I am using IE with SSL, which I am trying to  
find a workaround for ☹

-Curtis

On 03:31 Tue 07 Mar , nina zhang wrote:

> would you please post code?
> 
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Thanks,  
Curtis

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**Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-uploads-giving-page-not-found-on-ie/77440/4 "2006-03-07T23:37:57Z")

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On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:56:12AM +0000, Curtis Spencer wrote:

> Michael,
> 
> I have noticed the same problem on my own upload’s of files. Do you  
> happen to be running behind Lighttpd SSL, because I only notice that my file  
> uploads are broken when I am using IE with SSL, which I am trying to  
> find a workaround for ☹

It’s your lucky day:  
$HTTP[“useragent”] =~ “^(._MSIE._)|(._AppleWebKit._)$” {  
server.max-keep-alive-requests = 0  
}

I should have remembered this, since I was bitten on the arse by this  
problem under Apache about two months ago (different site).

I just found this out there somewhere, but it seems to have fixed the  
problem completely. This is almost identical to the fix that I did  
under Apache:

BrowserMatch “MSIE 4.0b2;” nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

Note that the regex could be cleaned up considerably, probably to  
“(MSIE)|(AppleWebKit)”.

## Michael

Michael Darrin Chaney  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
[http://www.michaelchaney.com/](http://www.michaelchaney.com/)