Chrome stalls when making multiple requests to same resource?

Yes, this behavior is due to Chrome locking the cache and waiting to see the result of one request before requesting the same resource again. The answer is to find a way to make the requests unique. I added a random number to the query string, and everything is working now.

For future reference, this was Chrome 39.0.2171.95.

Edit: Since this answer, I’ve come to understand that “Cache-Control: no-cache” doesn’t do what I thought it does. Despite its name, responses with this header can be cached. I haven’t tried, but I wonder if using “Cache-Control: no-store”, which does prevent caching, would fix the issue.

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