Problem with Project Web Access

[tol7481]

Hi,
when I try to access a project page containing data read from DB the
page hangs, while accessing the same page inside the lan is almost
always fine (more on this later). The HTTP request which hangs is the
following:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
POST /msadc/msadcs.dll/PjBusObj.PjTaskBusObj2.BOQueryGetTaskRecordSets
HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: ACTIVEDATA
Host: myserver.com
Content-Length: 586
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: no-cache

ADCClientVersion:01.06
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=eromsb5wmg(6uk)?3eg?;
num-args=12
....
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The very same behavior happens also in a "subnet" of our lan...

Any idea?
Thanks,
Andrea

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

How would "myserver.com" be resolved outside the lan?

 

[Charlie Holmes]

This is going to be overkill, but running Ethereal (freeware packet
capturing software) on your client machine and on the IIS app server
while you try to visit one of the "hanging" pages would give you enough
information to hunt down the cause.

Good Luck,
Charlie Holmes
RGA

 

[tol7481]

thanks everyone for your replies!

Gary,
maybe I can't see your point however the host specified in the Host
header (which I substituted with myserver.com in the snippet) is a
registered domain and it is correctly resolved.

Charlie,
I "sniffed" the traffic from the client machine using MS Fiddler,
however I'll try Ethereal on the server machine.

Does anybody think that msadcs.dll needs special authorizations?

Thanks again,
Andrea

 

[Francesco]

(e-mail address removed) ha scritto:

Hi,
when I try to access a project page containing data read from DB the
page hangs, while accessing the same page inside the lan is almost
always fine (more on this later). The HTTP request which hangs is the
following:
(...)

Have you got SharePoint Services installed and extended on the PWA
virtual site? I had similar problems, and narrowed it to a SharePoint
issue. If i removed SharePoint extensions from the PWA site, it all
worked fine.
That's not a solution, but maybe will help you focus on what's wrong. By
the way, i am still working on solving it, i'll post if i have something.

P.S. se vuoi scrivermi direttamente in italiano cambia il dominio con
gibilogic.com

 

[tol7481]

Hi Francesco,
sorry for my late reply, we'll check the SharePoint issue asap!

Thanks,
Andrea

P.S.
Grazie!!

 

[Francesco]

(e-mail address removed) ha scritto:

Hi Francesco,
sorry for my late reply, we'll check the SharePoint issue asap!

I solved my issue, i don't know if it the same as yours, but here is
what i did:
- in SharePoint Central Administration, select Manage Virtual Site;
- select Default Web Site, then select Define Managed Paths;
- in the "excluded" paths, add "/projectserver" and "/msadc".

Hope this helps!
A presto.