HTTP 406 Not Acceptable error
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:56 pm
I am working on a script for someone and several of the users of the script have been complaining about getting 406 errors or "page not found" errors which I believe to be actually 406 errors(IE has a generic message for servers whos error pages aren't a certain length).
The errors seem to always occur when POSTing a form but not all for forms just some of them and it seems to be different forms for each person.
From what I understand 406 errors are usually a problem with language or charset differences between server and client. I've been checking out the operation of the script on hosts where it doesn't work completely vs sites such as mine which have the script installed and working perfectly(in that respect at least). I've been using an HTTP sniffer and by all appearances the headers sent back and forth by client and server should cause no problems of this sort as far as I can tell. And the headers look pretty much the same on non-working vs working sites.
So I am baffled as to the cause.
What other things besides language and charset can cause the error? What are some possible solutions to 406 errors?
This is something new that seems to have popped up within the last few weeks, prior to that there were no reports and the number of reports seems to be growing. I can't figure out what I could have done though that would have caused it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The errors seem to always occur when POSTing a form but not all for forms just some of them and it seems to be different forms for each person.
From what I understand 406 errors are usually a problem with language or charset differences between server and client. I've been checking out the operation of the script on hosts where it doesn't work completely vs sites such as mine which have the script installed and working perfectly(in that respect at least). I've been using an HTTP sniffer and by all appearances the headers sent back and forth by client and server should cause no problems of this sort as far as I can tell. And the headers look pretty much the same on non-working vs working sites.
So I am baffled as to the cause.
What other things besides language and charset can cause the error? What are some possible solutions to 406 errors?
This is something new that seems to have popped up within the last few weeks, prior to that there were no reports and the number of reports seems to be growing. I can't figure out what I could have done though that would have caused it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.