LearnBoost/socket.io — Issue #671: bug xhr-polling in firefox 8, win XP
Author: Math-
Created: 2011-11-30 00:40:12+00:00
State: open

(I use socket.io@0.8.7 and node v0.4.8)

In firefox 8, socket io client don't abort correctly xhr connections, in my case an xhr-connection was still running but could not read data received by the server. I have to abort manually the connection to be able to receive data from server (this xhr-connection is aborted automatically after a timeout of 2mins0), response data is "7:::1+0" after automatically aborting the xhr-connection.

Even if I send data to the socket.io server this connection don't close. This problem only happens one time at the beginnning of my app when receiving data, after the connection is being aborted I can receive again data from my server.

Everything works fine on IE7,8, Chrome, Safari5 ...