Topic: Internet Explorer hits 3X.

We are working on a project at work using the Liferay Portal, and we can't understand it, but for some reason when accessing the portal with Internet Explorer, the server recieves its requests in the log three times over. If the portal is accessed with Firefox it only recieves the requests once.

I know I.E. is a piece of junk, but its what the client asked for. Is there any reason for this/any thing we can do about it?

Thanks,



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Well... without reading the whole logs - is your site by any chance .htaccess protected?

That would result in the following requests send by IE.
->Get page.html
<-401 Protected
->Get page.html Authentication=YourWindowsLogon
<-401 Protected
->get page.html Authentication=Ask the user
<-200 OK data_from_page.html.

for more guesses, we'll need example log files.

so long,

->Tyberius Prime

if I understand correctly...
Is there a reason: Yes.
Can you do anything about it? No.


Back in the bad old year of IE4 working with a document archive on an intranet we noticed that IE refused to allow us to force downloads of office documents regardless of sent mime-types and extensions. It stubbornly opened them no matter what you did.

This had to do with the fact that it indeed does request the page/metadata for the page several times (I think it was 2 or 3 times) before actually showing it.

I don't remember exactly how it went but it was somewhere along these lines.
1. Call the page and get a response
2. Evaluate the response and decide what to do with it (should the mimetype from the server win or should IE's own rules regarding activeX, Office integration etc win over what the server said about the file)
3. Retrieve, process and render/show the file

I don't know if this procedure still goes in todays IE browsers, but I sadly suspect that it does...

I've googled quicly and saw this that seems to be a similar thing and it goes into deatil a bit more: http://www.caucho.com/support/resin-interest/0212/0360.html

(ps. I also posted this at the Asylum)
/Dan

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