IE Flag Icon Stops Spinning, but Page Still Loads

[seiwonlee]

Hi,

I'm hoping that someone can shed some light on this mysterious IE
behavior.

I have an ASP.NET application. If I click on a menu item, the IE flag
icon starts spinning (good) and I go to a different page.

However, if I click on a menu item, then move my mouse over different
images on the current page, the IE flag icon stops spinning (bad)
giving the false impression that the page isn't doing anything. But, if
you wait, the new page load correctly.

Has anyone else encountered this strange behavior? I've searched and
searched, but I can't find any discussion around this issue.

I am using IE6+ (xp sp2) and Firefox works ok. Same behavior exist on
other IE6+ browser on other machines.

Thanks in advance,
sei

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Hi,

I'm hoping that someone can shed some light on this mysterious IE
behavior.

I have an ASP.NET application. If I click on a menu item, the IE flag
icon starts spinning (good) and I go to a different page.

However, if I click on a menu item, then move my mouse over different
images on the current page, the IE flag icon stops spinning (bad)
giving the false impression that the page isn't doing anything. But, if
you wait, the new page load correctly.

That could be easily explained if you have multiple connections.
E.g. a similar symptom could occur in a multi-frame situation
in which the user presses Esc (or clicks the Stop button).
I.e. the connection which is stopped is one which has to do with
a frame (e.g. advertising where a host server is not responding);
then the next frame is rendered from the page's main host
which is responding; etc. I think that that behaviour of the Stop
function initially is unexpected but once you are aware of it
it is easy to understand.

Try using FiddlerTool to diagnose your specific symptom.
It can show you which requests are not being established
and which are not being responded to. If those requests
are being generated dynamically via JavaScript you may also
have to resort to script debugging to understand the complete
set of processes.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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