I am experiencing an extremely strange problem with IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit.
Any file (no matter the extension, could be .txt, .htm, .js, or anything) that has an http:// on any line, and a ­ on any subsequent line, cannot be fully downloaded from IIS. You get a partial download that just hangs.
This fails with static content compression on or off, with output caching on or off.
The issue doesn't occur on a local dev environment running IIS 7.5 on Windows 7.
Any thoughts as to the cause?
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