Our website is an internal MOD one which cannot be accessed by the internet.

 

We can replicate the problem on the cutesoft demo, all the timings i specified were for the three demo urls adam gave, its not just our site. Except for the V5.3 which was from a testsite of ours where we have rolled back the code.

 

I have also asked friends who still use IE6 to access your demo pages and they all get similar response times, i.e. the initial page appears in about 5 secs and then the 100 files finally download anywhere between 20-70 secs. All these were timings on http://cutesoft.net/example/general.aspx.

 

Thinking about the code I am assuming all these 100 files are being bottlenecked thru load.ashx. I fail to see how loading an image thru a handler is any quicker than accessing it directly via a URL where IIS can do things far quicker and efficiently than pumping it via dotnet. Also it appears IE6 has problem caching these files.

 

A question.... These 100 files its downloading, are they all the images on the toolbar? I was assuming they were, but maybe they are something different? In fact the url in the status bar never changes, the file count decreases, but the URL always says load.ashx?type=image&file=blank2020.png.

 

Maybe its a small bug that only shows on IE6? Or more likely its a bug with IE6 which needs working round....