Timing Out On Downloading Snapshot ?

Hi

This is to do with HTTPS merge replication. We were getting an error when downloading the initial snapshot. The snapshot was about 25 meg, over an average link. It returned an error after a few minutes - it did start to download the .cab file (it was compressed).

By not compressing the cabinet file, it worked fine - I can only presume it was some sort of timeout error. The downside was that the amount of data was much greater, with it not being compressed.

Questions therefore are:
a) is this time of timeout a known condition and if so what can I do about it

b) slightly unrelated- can an alternate location be given for the snapshot, like you can in non-HTTPS anonymous subscriptions.

Main properties in creating the subscription is as follows:


subscription.InternetUrl = webSyncUrl
subscription.InternetSecurityMode = AuthenticationMethod.BasicAuthentication
subscription.SubscriberType = MergeSubscriberType.Anonymous
subscription.SyncType = SubscriptionSyncType.None

and when synchronising....

subscription = New MergePullSubscription()
agent = subscription.SynchronizationAgent
agent.PublisherSecurityMode = SecurityMode.Standard
agent.DistributorSecurityMode = SecurityMode.Standard
agent.UseWebSynchronization = True
agent.InternetSecurityMode = SecurityMode.Standard



Thanks
Bruce