I have run into the same problem with Apache 1.25 and some cgi programs we
have written in cobol based on Lars' COBCGI paper. Apache seems to duplicute
part of the output of the page but I find it only does this when I'm using a
slow connection like a 56k dialup. I don't send any emails, the program
simply generates plain html output.

-Peter Osborne
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: Apache and Explorer Errors


>Castle wrote:
>>
>> I am running Apache version 1.2.5 and I'm running into a problem when
>> creating large reports(anywhere from a couple of hundred to a couple of
>> thousand records) that are being sent to Internet Explorer 4.0.  I will
on
>> occasion get an error that reads "An internal error occurred in the
windows
>> Internet extensions."  The page will partially load, but not all of it.
I
>> can run the same report multiple times, and most of the time it will
work,
>> and then I will get the error.  The error doesn't happen at the same
place
>> either, even though the report itself isn't changing.  This is a weird
one,
>> and I didn't know if it might be Apache related.
>>
>> I've done searches on Microsofts site, and no luck.
>>
>> I'm willing to try any suggestions.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>Is this report coming from a static file, or is it being dynamically
generated
>via CGI?
>
>I saw this problem recently with Apache/iX 1.3.4 and a CGI application.
The
>CGI script generated partial page output, then paused while it e-mailed
>something, then generated the rest of the page.
>
>MSIE5 would behave exactly as you describe above.  Communicator 4.7 would
>display a blank page without any error (but View Source would show a lot of
>content anyway).
>
>I believe the fix in this particular situation was to have the CGI generate
the
>*entire* page image before sending the time-consuming e-mail.
>
>- Mark B.
>