[Chameleon] Re: IE hangs with drawmap.php

[Jonathon Coombes]

On 22/02/2006, at 1:55 AM, uli mueller wrote:

> Nobody has any hint? This is a real blocker for us!
>
> We tested the whole thing on some more machines and found some that  
> did not show the problem - although the version of IE was identical.
>
> Uli
>
> uli mueller wrote:
>> Hi All
>> Can anybody tell why Internet Explorer (version 5 and 6) hangs  
>> with some images produced from drawmap.php?
>> With Firefox everything is fine. However when I call the same URL  
>> in IE the browser hangs completely, consuming most of my CPU and  
>> freezing the whole system after some minutes!
>> This happens only at certain map extents or scales. I tried  
>> changing the output format options in chameleon.xml as well as in  
>> the mapfile. The only effect was that other map extents caused the  
>> problem. I found no configuration that worked for all situations.
>> I have copied and posted some of the images produced from  
>> drawmap.php below. However when I call the saved images with their  
>> extension even IE manages to display them.

Hi Uli,

The only trouble I have seen with IE was to do with sessions and  
using IFRAME's.
The two don't mix very well and you have to be extra careful in this  
situation. Otherwise
I can't help you as I don't use IE! (or MS Windows) :)

Regards
Jonathon