keep-alive troubles?

[wlanmac]

I have heard it replicated on Firefox, but have been testing with IE
since I think the situation is worse with it. 

IE locks up, as in it will do nothing. No response from clicking any
links (that go to the same website). What I'm seeing in wireshark is as
follows:

- When user is logged in and goes to a site, say msnbc.msn.com. The
browser established HTTP Keep-Alive connections and downloads the page.

- I click around the site up until my time expires.

- When my time expires, the problem is worse if my browser was actively
downloading content, when the keep-alive packets start getting dropped
(not logged in anymore).

- Since the browser is waiting for data still on it's keep-alive
connections, it just sits there (for a really long time) waiting... not
even trying to send my request for a new URL (over a new or existing
keep-alive connection). 

What I've found is that if instead of dropping the packets when logged
out, if Chilli resets the connections (sending a RST to both client and
server, basically nicely terminating the keep-alive), everything works a
whole lot better. 

I'm just surprised that nobody has mentioned this problem before...




On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 23:49 +0200, Henk Kleynhans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What do you mean by 'completely locks up'? Does IE lock up? Can you
> replicate it with Firefox? 
> 
> henk
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:12 PM, wlanmac <wlan at mac.com> wrote:
>         Has anyone else ever seen keep-alive issues whereby:
>         
>         - A user is browsing a website, say msnbc.msn.com (what I used
>         to test
>         with) and IE on XP (or similar)
>         
>         - The user has been logged in, but their time has expired
>         
>         - The website completely locks up, nothing works
>         
>         - Other sites and walled garden are fine
>         
>         ?
>         
>         
>         
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