Problem with IE and FLVPlayback connections

[bluitz]

I am having a strange problem on a video site I am creating. Basically there are links to a bunch of videos that load into an FLVPlayer and play via HTTP Progressive download.

In IE if you load one video and navigate away from the page to view another video, on the new page it takes forever to load the video. I think I have figured out that it's a problem with IE's 2 connection limit, but the real issue is that is seems like the connections aren't ever cleared. So If I go to a page with a long video and then navigate away from the page, that connection isn't recycled, it just continues to try and download the first video.

Has anyone experienced this? There must be a way to reset or close the connection to the video file when navigating away from the page. Everything works fine in Firefox.

You can check it out for yourself http://www.connectnote.com

Click "View examples" and then navigate rapidly between the examples. Eventually IE stops receiving any data.

Justin

[bluitz]

Well i found this post

http://forum.lighttpd.net/topic/72358#18000

That talks about fixing this same problem for lighttpd

The fix didn't work for me on apache, though. My mime type is already video/x-flv.

This must be soemthing to do with the way flvplayback component requests the flv from the server.

I see the connections on the server stuck in FIN_WAIT1 and they never close until I close my browser.

[bluitz]

Wow, I discovered that my problem is caused by realplayer with it's "Download Now" link. It seems to freeze the socket that it's connected to. If I disable realplayer IE works fine. I still don't know how to fix this for the users of my site. I've been trying to find a way to disable Realplayer for a long time, but I haven't found anything