Hello, Monks.

I'm not sure if this is an appropriate question (or even in the right place), but I'm not sure where to go. Yes; newbie.

I just launched a small perl-driven site for an artists' group I'm a part of. The private content management side works great (thanks to you all! and the llama book! and I use CGI; honest!), but the public viewer scripts give me an odd problem: IE for Windows executes the script, writes the HTML, then seems to stall after loading a few images from the site (status bar: 'Downloading picture:... Try 'view current galleries' a couple times to see). Eventually the browser stops loading images for any site. Closing and reopening IE starts the process over.

HTTP code 304 might somehow to be involved.

The rub is that the same site and code work with no problems on IE and Safari on a Mac. Same with Netscape/Mozilla/Camino/Firebird and Opera under OS X and Windows. (Haven't tried Linux yet.) Damn that 80% market share!

Ueber-common search terms make for fruitless Googling. Is this something really obvious? I'd love to RTFM; point me in the right direction? The HTML written by the perl scripts is available at the site; would chunks of the code that write it be important?

Thanks for your time.

Dead Nancy

p.s. Yes, I use JavaScript (to load content in multiple frames). I like frames. I do not apologize!

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