My web application is Asp.NET 2.0 and in one page, i'm using HttpWebRequest to load some content into a container page. This works well within Firefox, IE7/8, Safari but it crashes IE6. It hangs or shuts down. The content page i'm trying to read is called tmp.html and if i call it directly (using IE6) then it seems ok. The html code inside tmp.html is : this crashes the browser but if i remove the line : `"background-image: url(images/jpg/alt_right_top.png);"` then it shows up correctly even if i call it through HttpWebRequest. example link : [http://www.smilevitamin.com/smilevitamin/vitamin.aspx][1] Any ideas? Is this an Internet Explorer 6 bug? [1]: http://www.smilevitamin.com/smilevitamin/vitamin.aspx