- From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:43:12 -0700 (MST)
- To: Charumathy Venkatraman <charumathy_v@lgsoftindia.com>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Charumathy Venkatraman wrote: > I hope this is not too much off topic, but I am currently testing my > HTTP client with Microsoft IIS server. Every time I issue a POST > request I get Error 405 (Method not allowed) along with an Allow > response header that does not list POST in the list of allowed > methods. We have tried to configure the server in several different > ways - we allowed all methods for the directory to which I am > POSTing, but there is no change in behavior. Can anyone shed some > light on this? I do not use MS IIS, but it sounds like you may be missing the application on the server end to accept (do something with) POSTs. On general-purpose web servers, one cannot POST to a directory or a file; there has to be a program (e.g., a CGI script) on the server side for processing of POST requests. Alex.
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