* jsm16@c... wrote in microsoft.public.xml:
>I get a couple of alerts then 100% CPU. The server is not sending
>content forever. I tried with a simple 5 line JSP page, same problem.

Does the server close the connection? Does your server-side program
generate a Content-Length header? Is that header correct? Do you use
a properly formed multipart message? Do you use CR LF (0x0D 0x0A) to
terminate lines, or just, say, LFs?

>This exhibits the same problem. It seems to me that if IE has any idea
>that it is a multipart response (because of a 'boundary' in the
>Content-Type or because of a 'mulitpart') that it has issues. If it
>doesn't think it is multipart it has no issues. I would guess this has
>something to do with the way IE tries to look at responses to determine
>what type they are, both the headers and the content.

If the server does not close the connection, Internet Explorer might
be waiting for additional data to arrive because it has not seen the
end of the entity (whatever it considers the end to be), while the
server thinks it had sent all content. So, if the server does not
close the connection, IE would wait "forever" for more content.
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