Why does Internet Explorer not send HTTP post body on Ajax call after failure?

Question

We are able to reliably recreate the following scenario:

1. Create a small HTML page that makes AJAX requests to a server (using HTTP POST)
2. Disconnect fr

Answer 1

The microsoft KB article titled When you use Microsoft Internet Explorer or another program to perform a re-POST operation, only the header data is posted seems to fix this problem.

The article provides a hotfix. For later browsers such as IE8 it says the hotfix is already included but needs to be enabled through the registry settings on the client PC.