[Catalyst] IE has problems with catalyst

[Tomas Doran]

On 10 Sep 2008, at 13:51, snookums wrote:

>
> No authentication is being used right now. I've also checked my  
> apache config
> and used the LiveHeader add-on to Firefox. The keep-alive headers  
> seem to be
> just as they should be. I'm beginning to suspect that the long  
> processing
> time before the application can return content is the culprit. It  
> can take a
> while before the body is returned. The browser consistently tries  
> for about
> 10 seconds and then throws a dns error screen up. I tried placing
> $c->engine->write calls throughout to keep the connection active,  
> but it
> doesn't seem to have done anything. Thanks for your reply.
>

IE is pretty unhelpful - you don't know if it is a DNS error, or some  
form of connection error, or anything really..

I'd recommend pulling out Paros proxy and/or wireshark to see what's  
actually going on, as currently you're just guessing...

Cheers
t0m