Excellent! In examining what IE and Mozilla create, I was able to indentify exactly what was the problem in the header. 
POST http://www.environet.gov.on.ca/dwws-app/DWWSApp?cmd=UploadSubmPag
+e.uploadSubm
Content-Encoding: form-data
Content-Length: 3059
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=xYzZY

--xYzZY

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="works_id"



300002167

--xYzZY

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="lab_id"



48

--xYzZY

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="filename"; filename="260015626-2
+20006440.txt"

Content-Length: 2769

Content-Type: text/plain

[download]
It seems that neither browser states the Content-Length for just the file disposition, but do for the whole transaction at the beginning. In other words, the second last line shouldn't be there at all. This makes sense in accordance with the rather ambigous error message that I got. Final question: how do I turn this off? Thanks for all your help guys!

In reply to Re: Re: View browser's headers by gr0f
in thread HTTP Headers Problem by gr0f

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