Delay while validating digital signatures.

Author: Ruslan Zhovtonoga
Posted: 9/1/2009 11:52:17 AM

Most Sitecore assemblies have digital signatures for the security purposes.
When Sitecore is started, .NET is trying to validate digital signatures of assemblies by sending outbound requests to the CRL providers such as Microsoft or Comodoca.
This may cause up to 25-30 seconds delay during the startup when no outbound internet connection is available and until connection times out.

Please add the following option into the <Windows Directory>\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Aspnet.config file to work around this:

Please check the following links for additional information:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289749
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb629393.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2008/10/28/web-site-stops-responding-for-15-25-seconds.html

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