Internet Explorer's Operation Aborted And Latency Issue

If you don't know what the operation aborted error is, here's a Microsoft KB Article about it, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/927917 . There's also tonnes of posts ab

Solution 1:

Well after scouring the Internet I found the issue. It has to do with a bug in the the ASP.NET AJAX client-side framework.

I'll paraphrase what I found:

The issue is a race condition that occurs due to an Internet Explorer/ASP.Net AJAX bug. The probability of encountering this issue increases when the application has a significant number of ASP.Net AJAX enabled server controls on the web page. The issue is explained here, http://seejoelprogram.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/fixing-sysapplicationinitialize-again . I have added this fix to the project I'm working on.

This fix is still required if using ASP.NET 3.5 SP1.

Solution 2:

I guess the reason why you don't have SSL on your test box is due to the cost of the certificate. Did you know you can get Free short term certificates? I've often used them to sort out issues like this.

For example RapidSSL do a free 30 day certificate.