You’re not the only one. For me it works fine with both firefox & safari, however IE6 & IE7 I get the 500 server error as well.
I have removed the .htaccess file and that had no effect, stumped as to what to do next.
Thanks in advance to anyone that can assist.
Forgot to mention, it’s version 2.5 and there seems to be a duplicate thread here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/166266
I have the same problem but using firefox 2.x and IE7
mi log:
IP – – [21/Apr/2008:16:03:01 -0400] “POST /wp-comments-post.php HTTP/1.1” 500
some fix ?
albandi,
thank you very much, that fixed it. 🙂
For future Googlers that are experiencing the same, mysterious “Server 500” error in Internet Explorer after submitting a comments form that fails validation:
The problem is that Internet Explorer (prior to version 7) will not display error pages which are smaller than 512 bytes. As of this writing, WordPress 2.7 has a bug in which it does not make the error page big enough to be greater than the 512-byte threshold after gzip compression (which is often turned on for many hosting providers like DreamHost).
I’ve written a up a blog post that does a better job of describing the problem, including screenshots, a temporary fix, and a link to the bug I reported to the WordPress dev team: http://www.clintharris.net/2009/ie-512-byte-error-pages-and-wordpress/
hi charris,that’s the right solution!thanx a lot!
(@albandi)
16 years ago
I get an Internal Server Error (500),
if the commentfield is empty and I try to submit.
If the fields email or name is empty there are no problems in ie6.
File: wp-comments-post.php
Browser: ie 6
Tested with firefox: no problem