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...ication that I support, we sometimes fork during a web request in order to do background processing behind the scenes without the user (and the browser connection) to wait for it to finish. I realize that a better method would be to have a queue of jobs to be processed (I even created a gem called job_boss which works well for our case), but it will take us a while to get there, so I''m trying to fix this for now. The problem that I''m finding is that, when I fork, the HTTP connection doesn''t close. IE doesn''t handle this as well and the browser is left sitting, wa...