LearnBoost/socket.io — Issue #627: FlashSockets crash IE9 in high latency environment
Author: n-time
Created: 2011-11-08 15:39:21+00:00
State: open

While running my local development environment through an SSH tunnel in order to test across other machines, it would reliably crash my tab in IE9. If I switched to XHR the crashing would not occur, but on enabling Flashsocket the browser would crash. No console logs, just an almost immediate crash.

Our site was creating two separate socket.io connections on two separate domains.

The latency was definitely >210ms, (three round trips at ~35 ms) but I don't have any exact measurements.