Nickname Taken bug on IE6 Fixed.

A nasty Bug slipped back in for Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP:
Flash is not able to read the XML if the cache-control header is set in the response. As a result most of the actions did not succeed and the client reported a error which was not always correct. (i.e. “Nickname taken” when trying to signup)
As a quick fix we tweak the headers through mod_headers on the Apache Servers and things run smooth now. Even for IE 6

I know we should have seen this in our testings… so the only thing we can say is sorry for the troubles and thanks for the patience.

Resources:

• A blog post on lessrain.com (says it happens only with HTTPS but it also seems to happen with HTTP)
• A post I wrote a while ago when i had troubles downloading files in IE over HTTPS (which is why i should have known… )
• Microsoft Help and Support