Cannot upload files from Firefox 2.0 to Apache HTTP proxy server

[Baljeet Nijjhar <baljeet.nijjhar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I have tried to upload a Microsoft Excel file to my application server from Firefox 2.0. The HTTP request goes over SSL to Oracle Apache 2 HTTP server which is configured to act as a proxy server before passing the request to my application server.

Packet sniffing indicates that the file contents are being sent from the browser, but mysteriously getting 'lost' by the time they reach the application server. i.e. the form fields relating to the file upload are no longer present.

Are there any diagnostics I can perform or configuration I can check for the proxy server as to why this is happening?

File uploads work fine with Internet Explorer 6. There are some minor differences in the way HTTP requests get encoded for the two browsers, such as the filename or content-type.

thanks, Baljeet.