Warning: The retired, out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 desktop application has been permanently disabled through a Microsoft Edge update on certain versions of Windows 10. For more information, see Internet Explorer 11 desktop app retirement FAQ.
Symptoms
Assume that you use the browser to send an HTTP POST request in Internet Explorer 11. When a HTTP POST request is sent without a message body, the GET method is used instead.
Resolution
Update information
To resolve this issue, install the most recent cumulative security update for Internet Explorer. To do this, go to Microsoft Update.
For technical information about the most recent cumulative security update for Internet Explorer, go to the following Microsoft website:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspxNote This update was first included in security update 2975687.
For more information about security update 2975687, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
2975687 MS14-037: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer: July 8, 2014
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
See the terminology that Microsoft uses to describe software updates.
More Information
For more inforamtion about the HTTP POST and the HTTP GET, go to following Wikipedia website: