FIX: Internet Explorer may stop responding or you may receive an error message when you try to connect to Analysis Services by using HTTP or HTTPS (837982)

SYMPTOMS

When you try to connect to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services by using HTTP or by using HTTPS in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Internet Explorer may stop responding or you may receive an "HTTP 500 (Internal Server Error)" error message in Internet Explorer.

Note This problem may not occur when you use the standard TCP/IP connection to connect to Analysis Services.

CAUSE

This problem occurs after you apply the Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Update MS04-004. For additional information about the Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Update MS04-004, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

832894 MS04-004: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer

This problem also occurs after you apply the hotfix in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

821814 You receive a "Page cannot be displayed" error message when you post to a site that requires authentication

This security update (MS04-004) and the hotfix change how the Wininet.dll file retries POST requests with a blank header when a Web server resets the connection.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, install the hotfix in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article on the client computer:

831167 Wininet retries POST requests with a blank header

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

306039 PRB: Long running OLAP queries do not return data when connected through HTTP