The issue turned out to be a bug in how IE handles the keep alive connections
under SSL.
from the modSSL.org website FAQ:
When I connect via HTTPS to an Apache+mod_ssl+OpenSSL server with Microsoft
Internet Explorer (MSIE) I get various I/O errors. What is the reason? [L]
The first reason is that the SSL implementation in some MSIE versions has some
subtle bugs related to the HTTP keep-alive facility and the SSL close notify
alerts on socket connection close. Additionally the interaction between SSL and
HTTP/1.1 features are problematic with some MSIE versions, too. You've to
work-around these problems by forcing Apache+mod_ssl+OpenSSL to not use
HTTP/1.1, keep-alive connections or sending the SSL close notify messages to
MSIE clients. This can be done by using the following directive in your
SSL-aware virtual host section:
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
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Anyhow thanks for all your help.
larry
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