I have flask webservice running on windows, run up with `app.run()` which works fine from Chrome but when accessed with IE it sometimes fails with a timeout error. I've managed to reproduce the problem without flask which suggests there is (maybe?) some problem in the underlying Python networking code that flask is using. I've attached a simple website that displays the problem using only SimpleHTTPServer. To reproduce the problem unzip the file, cd into the directory and start the server using:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 5001

Then visit http://localhost:5001 in Internet Explorer and it will timeout, usually within the first 20 or 30 ajax calls.

I'm using IE11 on windows 7 and python 2.7.8

Why do you think this is a Python problem?  Can you reproduce it without using javascript?  Given that it works with other browsers (ie: python has no problem responding to the queries themselves) and javascript is doing the query, I think it would be much more likely to be an IE javascript bug, and hard to see how it could be a Python bug.

Also, FYI we prefer people attach text files, not zip files, to the issue.  It makes it easier for people to see what you are talking about.

Closing this as Python 2.7 is past EOL and there was no followup for over 6 years. If you are still having this problem in 3.9+, and you believe it is indeed a python rather than javascript issue, please create a new issue.