Page doesn't fully load in IE7 or IE8 (but works in other browsers)

Question

I've come across a really strange problem where a page I'm trying to test in IE7 and IE8 is taking forever to load. The problem is that it works in all other browsers just fine (yes... even IE6). The page just keeps loading saying:

'(1 item remaining) Waiting for http://...'

Does anyone know of any reason this could be happening?

Answer 1

Last time I saw that behavior, it was IE7 trying to load a page with an EMBED tag that had no SRC attribute (I don't remember if it was defined as "" or if it simply wasn't defined at all in the markup).

Answer 2

Try watching the page download with Fiddler (www.fiddler2.com). Are there any outstanding HTTP requsts when you see that message?