The problem:

• If i access SharePoint from Windows 7 with IE8 or Chrome5 - I must wait for like a minute to get a response. If i use other Windows 7 with IE8, just the same - just wait a MINUTE.
• If i use Firefox3.6 on W7 machine - page opens up instantly.
• Now switch to IE rendering engine in Firefox, you will have to wait just as with IE.
• Now i tried IE8 on XP SP3 - page opens up instantly.
• I tried IE8 on Windows Server 2003 SP2 (machine on which SharePoint is hosted) - page opens up instantly.

IIS6 Logs

I did request almost instantly from all 3 browsers and this is what shows up in IIS logs (first 2 entries for each browser):

Chrome

Ok, IIS saw first Chrome request when i Hit enter in browser, but i had to wait long for things to move on

2010-06-01 05:46:04 W3SVC1794621940 192.168.0.9 GET /sapulces - 80 - 192.168.0.186 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+6.1;+en-US)+AppleWebKit/533.4+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/5.0.375.55+Safari/533.4 401 2 2148074254

Loading...

2010-06-01 05:47:07 W3SVC1794621940 192.168.0.9 GET /sapulces - 80 - 192.168.0.186 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+6.1;+en-US)+AppleWebKit/533.4+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/5.0.375.55+Safari/533.4 401 1 0

... etc...

Firefox

All Instantly

2010-06-01 05:46:06 W3SVC1794621940 192.168.0.9 GET /sapulces - 80 - 192.168.0.186 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+6.1;+lv;+rv:1.9.2.3)+Gecko/20100401+Firefox/3.6.3 401 2 2148074254

2010-06-01 05:46:06 W3SVC1794621940 192.168.0.9 GET /sapulces - 80 - 192.168.0.186 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+6.1;+lv;+rv:1.9.2.3)+Gecko/20100401+Firefox/3.6.3 401 1 0

... etc...

IE

I did hit enter when it was 05:46:06, but these are first entries in IIS logs

2010-06-01 05:47:08 W3SVC1794621940 192.168.0.9 GET /sapulces - 80 - 192.168.0.186 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.1;+Trident/4.0;+SLCC2;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.5.30729;+.NET+CLR+3.0.30729;+Media+Center+PC+6.0;+Tablet+PC+2.0;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+.NET4.0C;+.NET4.0E) 401 1 0

2010-06-01 05:47:08 W3SVC1794621940 192.168.0.9 GET /sapulces - 80 - 192.168.0.186 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.1;+Trident/4.0;+SLCC2;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.5.30729;+.NET+CLR+3.0.30729;+Media+Center+PC+6.0;+Tablet+PC+2.0;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+.NET4.0C;+.NET4.0E) 401 1 0

... etc...

Nothing to see in Event Logs.

Fiddler

IE

GET /dokumenti HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/jpeg, application/x-ms-application, image/gif, application/xaml+xml, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
Accept-Language: lv-LV
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: serveris

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Length: 1656
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
WWW-Authenticate: NTLM
MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.6520
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:40:46 GMT
Proxy-Support: Session-Based-Authentication

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GET /dokumenti HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/jpeg, application/x-ms-application, image/gif, application/xaml+xml, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
Accept-Language: lv-LV
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: serveris
Authorization: Negotiate TlRMTVNTUAABAAAAl4II4gAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGAbAdAAAADw==

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Length: 1539
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate TlRMTVNTUAACAAAAEgASADgAAAAVgonihccyI36f5i4AAAAAAAAAAIIAggBKAAAABQLODgAAAA9CAEEATABUAEkAQwBPAFYATwACABIAQgBBAEwAVABJAEMATwBWAE8AAQAQAFMARQBSAFYARQBSAEkAUwAEABIAQgBhAGwAdABpAGMAbwB2AG8AAwAkAHMAZQByAHYAZQByAGkAcwAuAEIAYQBsAHQAaQBjAG8AdgBvAAUAEgBCAGEAbAB0AGkAYwBvAHYAbwAAAAAA
MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.6520
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:41:49 GMT
Proxy-Support: Session-Based-Authentication

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GET /dokumenti HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/jpeg, application/x-ms-application, image/gif, application/xaml+xml, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
Accept-Language: lv-LV
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Keep-Alive
Authorization: Negotiate TlRMTVNTUAADAAAAGAAYAJgAAAAYABgAsAAAABIAEgBYAAAAHgAeAGoAAAAQABAAiAAAABAAEADIAAAAFYKI4gYBsB0AAAAPirSYl+w3M1gPelXA+mS9OEIAQQBMAFQASQBDAE8AVgBPAGoAYQBuAGkAcwAuAHYAZQBpAG4AYgBlAHIAZwBzAEoAQQBOAEkAUwAtAFAAQwCxt4kZryxtOgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC7gY8LTv2TqmFbggCo52sIVw8zy2V/s0ZHHFSqA0tiiGpcNplfJlok
Host: serveris

HTTP/1.1 302 Object Moved
Content-Length: 161
Content-Type: text/html
Location: http://serveris/dokumenti/default.aspx
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.6520
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:41:49 GMT

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GET /dokumenti/default.aspx HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/jpeg, application/x-ms-application, image/gif, application/xaml+xml, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
Accept-Language: lv-LV
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Keep-Alive
If-Modified-Since: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:45:23 GMT
Host: serveris

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Length: 114839
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Expires: Sun, 23 May 2010 08:41:49 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:41:49 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.6520
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Set-Cookie: WSS_KeepSessionAuthenticated=80; path=/
Set-Cookie: MSOWebPartPage_AnonymousAccessCookie=80; expires=Mon, 07-Jun-2010 09:11:49 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=d2r5lj32dm4svg554sixwc2t; path=/; HttpOnly
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:41:51 GMT

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Chrome

But when trying to use Google Chrome, then fiddler hangs if i do not close chrome soon after sending request - all i see in fiddler is a flood (thousands) of 401 (unauthorized) responses.

The question

Similar question has been asked but there is no response and i`m trying to access page without SSL and that happens even on GET requests.

Where do I look? Where would be the problem? Browser? OS? I don't even know what to think about.

Just a note

Just a note about chrome's process isolation: I found it sad that while I was waiting that minute with Chrome, i could not use any other tab (i could switch, but i could not, for example, scroll or use any controls)

Solution 1:

As it turns out it had to do something with authentication.

I checked what is my authentication privider and i had (probably accidentally) set it to Kerberos. I changed it back to NTLM (what i'v suspected it would be) and now it works.

Solution 2:

A shot in the dark, but I wonder if IIS is correctly setting the Content-Length header. The only way a browser really knows that it got all the data is to look at the Content-Length header, and read that many bytes, or it can read data and then timeout waiting for more. And that one minute time sort of sounds like a timeout.

Maybe the Content-Length header isn't taking compression into account and is wrong???

Try running Fiddler in IE and see what it shows.