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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: HTTP 500 internal server error with wp-comments-post.php in IEThe 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).
The thread mentioned by eliemartin does have a solution. I’ve written a up a blog post that does a better job of describing the problem, however, including screenshots, a temporary fix, and a link to the bug I reported to the WordPress dev team, if anyone is interested: http://www.clintharris.net/2009/ie-512-byte-error-pages-and-wordpress/
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: ie6: Internal Server Error 500 & wp-comments-post.phpFor 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/