diff --git a/webui/js.php b/webui/js.php
index be7ac054..d82cbf62 100644
--- a/webui/js.php
+++ b/webui/js.php
@@ -7,6 +7,25 @@ $language = new Language();
 
 $javascript = DIR_BASE . '/view/javascript/piler-in.js';
 
+/*
+ * some funky User-Agent scripts:
+ *
+ *
+ * - chrome: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.120 Safari/537.36
+ *
+ * - firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
+ *
+ * - IE 11: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
+ *
+ */
+
+
+if(OUTLOOK == 1 || strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], " MSIE") || strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "Trident")) {
+   define('BROWSER_WITH_NTLM_BUG', 1);
+} else {
+   define('BROWSER_WITH_NTLM_BUG', 0);
+}
+
 Header("Content-Type: text/javascript");
 require_once($javascript);
 
diff --git a/webui/ok.txt b/webui/ok.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9766475a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webui/ok.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ok
diff --git a/webui/system/helper/detectmobilebrowser.php b/webui/system/helper/detectmobilebrowser.php
index 76dd57aa..771e5670 100644
--- a/webui/system/helper/detectmobilebrowser.php
+++ b/webui/system/helper/detectmobilebrowser.php
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 
-function is_mobile_device() {
+function browser_detect() {
 
    if(!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) { define('OUTLOOK', 0); return 0; }
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ function is_mobile_device() {
    return 0;
 }
 
-define('MOBILE_DEVICE', is_mobile_device());
+define('MOBILE_DEVICE', browser_detect());
 
 
 ?>
diff --git a/webui/view/javascript/piler-in.js b/webui/view/javascript/piler-in.js
index ac545c15..af0ec406 100644
--- a/webui/view/javascript/piler-in.js
+++ b/webui/view/javascript/piler-in.js
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ var Piler =
     {
         var url;
 
+        Piler.poor_mans_keepalive_for_dummy_browsers();
+
         Piler.Shared.type == 'search' ? url = '/search-helper.php' : url = '/audit-helper.php';
 
         Piler.log("[load_search_results]", url); 
@@ -194,6 +196,8 @@ var Piler =
     {
         Piler.log("[saved_search_terms]");
 
+        Piler.poor_mans_keepalive_for_dummy_browsers();
+
         jQuery.ajax( '/index.php?route=search/save', {
             data: $.extend(!0, { }, Piler.Shared, Piler.Searches[Piler.search], {save: '1'} ),
             type: "POST"
@@ -270,6 +274,8 @@ var Piler =
     {
         var search = $('#_search').val();
 
+        Piler.poor_mans_keepalive_for_dummy_browsers();
+
         Piler.log("[view_message]", id, search);
 
         jQuery.ajax('/message.php', {
@@ -307,6 +313,8 @@ var Piler =
     {
         Piler.log("[not_spam]", id);
 
+        Piler.poor_mans_keepalive_for_dummy_browsers();
+
         jQuery.ajax('index.php?route=message/notspam', {
            data: { id: id },
            type: "POST"
@@ -329,6 +337,8 @@ var Piler =
     {
         Piler.log("[bulk_restore_messages]", email);
 
+        Piler.poor_mans_keepalive_for_dummy_browsers();
+
         var idlist = Piler.get_selected_messages_list();
 
         if(!idlist) return;
@@ -374,6 +384,8 @@ var Piler =
     {
         Piler.log("[add_note_to_message]", id, msg);
 
+        Piler.poor_mans_keepalive_for_dummy_browsers();
+
         jQuery.ajax('index.php?route=message/note', {
            data: { id: id, note: encodeURI($('#note').val()) },
            type: "POST"
@@ -389,6 +401,8 @@ var Piler =
     {
         Piler.log("[tag_search_results]", msg);
 
+        Piler.poor_mans_keepalive_for_dummy_browsers();
+
         var idlist = Piler.get_selected_messages_list();
 
 	Piler.log("[tag_search_results, idlist]", idlist);
@@ -414,6 +428,8 @@ var Piler =
     {
         Piler.log("[load_url_to_preview_pane]", url);
 
+        Piler.poor_mans_keepalive_for_dummy_browsers();
+
         jQuery.ajax(url, { cache: true })
         .done( function(a) { $('#mailpreviewframe').html(a); })
         .fail(function(a, b) { alert("Problem retrieving XML data:" + b) });
@@ -764,6 +780,8 @@ var Piler =
     {
         Piler.log("[restore_message_for_recipients]", id);
 
+        Piler.poor_mans_keepalive_for_dummy_browsers();
+
         var z = $('#restorebox').children(), y = z.length, x;
         var emails = '';
 
@@ -972,6 +990,8 @@ var Piler =
 
         var folder_copy_url = '<?php print SITE_URL; ?>/index.php?route=folder/copy'
 
+        Piler.poor_mans_keepalive_for_dummy_browsers();
+
         jQuery.ajax('index.php?route=folder/copy', {
            data: { folder_id: folder_id, id: id },
            type: "POST"
@@ -1150,6 +1170,22 @@ var Piler =
        window.print();
 
        document.body.innerHTML = oldPage;
+    },
+
+
+    poor_mans_keepalive_for_dummy_browsers: function()
+    {
+
+<?php if(BROWSER_WITH_NTLM_BUG == 1 && ENABLE_SSO_LOGIN == 1) { ?>
+
+       Piler.log("[poor_mans_keepalive_for_dummy_browsers]");
+
+       jQuery.ajax('/ok.txt', { async:   false })
+       .done( function(a) { } )
+       .fail(function(a, b) { alert("Problem retrieving XML data:" + b) });
+
+<?php } ?>
+
     }