IE hangs on web site when contacting web service

Question

Hi All,

I have a website that seems to be Ok in Mozilla but when I access some pages in IE (mostly the ones where it has to contact a web service) the page hangs. If I refresh and then click the same button again, it seems to work fine 90% of the time. As mentioned, the same features work flawlessly in Mozilla.

I am not really sure where I need to go to start debugging this but does anyone have any ideas on a cause?

The website is hosted on my machine which is running on localhost using IIS7 on Vista and the web service is hosted in the same place. (So all it should need to do is contact itself). Its is an ASP.NET website running framework 2.0 (something)

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There can be many reasons to this.

Try the following things to see if you find anything interesting:

• Try running the application in debug mode and see which part is taking more time or possible reason for the lag.
• Try some performance reporting tool like dot trace to see the details for pages that are causing this lag.
• Check if this might be due to messed up sessions or transactions, if you are using them incorrectly.

Thanks

Answer 2

I think I have kind of found the source. If I unpug myself from my network at work and turn off firewalls ect the problems goes.

This is fine.

Thanks for the help.