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IIS 6 Timeouts - or not timing out - doesn’t timeout - the damn timeouts don’t work!

Posted by: scoopseven in IIS 15 years, 7 months ago

When IIS acts up, and won't timeout requests. When IIS Tracer keeps saying Preproc Headers, and the requests pile up and never finish. When you'd love to kick IIS in the head because requests won't time out. When IIS 6 requests don't time out. (I tried really hard here people!) Check the IIS 6 Metabase. Make sure you've enabled IIS so that you can edit the MetaBase directly (It's in /system32/inetsrv/MetaBase.xml) and check for these three line items.

HeaderWaitTimeout="30" ConnectionTimeout="240" MinFileBytesPerSec="240"

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XML Parsing Error IIS IE Firefox Coldfusion

Posted by: scoopseven in ColdFusion IIS 15 years, 7 months ago

While loading a page in my browser, IE or FireFox, I kept getting this odd error message... "XML Parsing Error - Not Well Formed". The odd thing was that I was loading a HMTL page, no XML. I tried changing the DocType tag, making my Javascript XML complaint (duh!) and I could not get this error to go away. I read something re: ASP causing the problem, so I disabled that in IIS, nothing. Turns out in a background process, I was calling a web service where the following code was used.

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