AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Anyone encouter timeouts during a search, but only in IE8? When running IE8 (any mode, 8, 8 compat, 7) we get the generic "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage - Diagnose Connection Problems" error, but when we peform the exact same search in FireFox, everything runs as it should. We're running on a Win2k3 server with SQL Express 2005 on the same box. No errors in the error log and nothing in the event logs.

You may extend your request time out by going on AbleCommerce Store-->web.Config File -->Finding this section ' <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="4096"/>' and replacing by this
'<httpRuntime executionTimeout="9000" maxRequestLength="4096" />' etc.

Good to know. I thought there was a way in the config file to do that, but couldn't remember what it was (.NET is not my native language). I'll give that a try!

Well, that's not it. Strangest thing, if I use the Advanced Search, I get results within a couple of seconds. If I use the standard search, the page takes ~8-10 seconds to load, and IE drops the connection around 4-5 seconds (FireFox holds the connection and displays my results at the end). What is difference between the normal search function and the advanced search?

Have a look at these threads,hopefully these will help you to find out any possible solution

http://weblogs.asp.net/aghausman/archiv ... p-net.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/aghausman/archiv ... p-net.aspx

Difference between simple search and advanced search is Advanced Search provides more flexibility to filter your search by selecting category,manufacturers etc