title: Internet Explorer 8 timeout too quick on page POSTs
body: <p>We have an asp.net site running, which has been working fine for some time, but recently I have been experiencing some issues with IE8.</p>
  
  <p>On posting some pages - mainly on our development server, although on staging too - we get an occasional "Internet Explore cannot display the webpage" error along with the button asking to diagnose connection problems. IE only seems to wait 10 seconds before timing out. I know that the page itself may take longer to load the first time (on dev and staging). So press F5 and everything then works fine.</p>
  
  <p>Is there anything that should be done in the aspx page to tell IE to wait a bit longer?</p>
  
  <p>I thought I had read that the default timeout supposed to be 90 seconds or something for browsers.</p>
  
  <p>A bit more info:</p>
  
  <p>It mostly happens on a POSTing a signup page, but that is just because I test that page and it starts the IIS App, makes the first connection to SQL and pre-caches some information. That first time the page can take 10-15 seconds to come back. IE8 times out after 10 seconds as it has had nothing back.</p>
  
  <p>This happens on a dev W7x64 machine with 8GB RAM, as well as on a staging server WIN2008.</p>
  
  <p>Having googled around a bit, some people are seeing the same problem, but no conclusive pointers to the problem or a solution.</p>
  
  <p>It isn't a connection problem; everything works fine in Firefox, Chrome and even IE7; I have tried with add-ons disabled and resetting IE settings, still happens.</p>
  
  <p>Ideas welcome.</p>