I doubt it was a timeout problem. The 1st try took perhaps 15 minutes, but the 2nd try took < 5 minutes. (I've been burned by "data loss" errors on MOS enough times, that I now always copy anything more than a sentence into a text file also.) -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yong Huang Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 1:51 PM To: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Obtuse errors at MOS > because the HTML interface was unable to create an SR > a few months ago. > Dunno if they have fixed that. You can create an SR on supporthtml.oracle.com. The problem is its short timeout, maybe 1 or 2 hours. So if it takes you too long to prepare the SR, you may lose what you typed. The Flash interface has a much longer timeout. Once I spent time doing something in the browser cookie to see if I can prolong the timeout. I couldn't get it to work. In fact, the timeout may be on the server side. Then it's completely impossible. Yong Huang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l