title: Can big ViewState content result a HTTP Error 504 - Gateway timeout?
body: <p>I have one asp.net page which seems to return a very big content (5,648,733 bytes and that is </p>
  
  <p>mostly consumed by VIEWSTATE) ending with a 504 Gateway timeout error. I am tracking the http </p>
  
  <p>request/response by using Fiddler.</p>
  
  <p>And basically, when I post-back the same page -by clicking a button- the post-back fails with thoose errors shown in IE and in FF:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage --> <strong>in IE</strong></p>
    
    <p>The connection to the server was reset
    while the page was loading. --> <strong>in FF</strong></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><em>Question</em>: <strong>Can this be because of the big size injected in VIEWSTATE; and if yes, what is the main 
  reason so that it loads the page but cannot post the page back after?</strong></p>