by some internet news archives, there was a post on this list that describes what I am seeing: http://www.issociate.de/board/post/166611/Strange_CGI_Timeout.html we have a windows 2000 server with PHP 5.0.3 installed. a website within IIS has .php extensions mapped to php-cgi.exe. within that site there is an affiliate program that we have downloaded. within that program, as you would expect, are several forms to save information, and one to upload images. *all* of these forms work without problems when using Firefox. *most* of these forms work fine with Internet Explorer (6.0), like the login form allows a user to log in to the system. however, when using Internet Explorer, some of the forms cause a CGI Timeout. it seems to be related to the size of the post of the form, and only happens when the method on the form is POST. it seems related to the size because it only happens on forms that either have a file upload, or a textarea that is being posted. the problem has to be something to do with the cgi executable and its interaction with IIS, because the php in the page itself is not being executed at all. if you place some simple code to echo and exit at the top of the php file, it does not even reach that. I think plenty of people have seen this problem before. I've heard that deleting an entry from the IIS MetaBase fixes the problem. does anybody have any ideas on what I should be looking for to fix the problem? thanks! Dan
