In my rails application, certain computers were having huge problems.
There were certain pages that were exceptionally slow, even to the point
of timing out. Other computers did not have a problem. I finally found
that Firefox was the difference. When using Firefox on those computers
it works fine. The slow pages were typically posting a form with a
couple hundred fields.
This behavior was the same with the rails server running on Windows,
Ruby 1.8.2, Apache2, FastCGI and also on Linux, Ruby 1.8.4, Lighttpd,
FastCGI.
It does seem quite possible that this is the cause – but the
fields only contain at most 3 letters. Combine that with the
overhead of the field names and it still should only be posting
4-5KB. I would have hoped IE could handle that.
You’re confusing reading a file and rendering it. Indeed the file is
at most 4-5 KB, but the amount of rendering and handling events
(input, ?) from the fields is quite intensive. Clearly IE has
problems with this.
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
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