[thelist] IIS hanging on script...

[Chris Marsh]

Faye

> I have a password protected page that checks the
> username/password combo against a txt file out of the web
> root. The same file used to work perfectly fine under windows
> 98 running PWS but now that I am running windows XP IIS (just
> for local testing - no external access) is hanging on that
> page BIG time..... After I insert the correct username and
> password and try to login the browser keeps trying to load
> something....it won't give any errors or go anywhere....it
> has hung like that for about 20 minutes and nothing happened.
> After that the whole IIS gets stuck and won't load any other
> page no matter if it's asp, html, anything. One thing I
> remember though is that when I was using PWS every time I
> tried loading the script I would get a warning asking
> permission to run the script locally. Now with IIS it won't
> give the waring and will hang. I appreciate any help you can
> give me with this problem.....

Complete shot in the dark, but are you running Norton AntiVirus?

Regards

Chris Marsh