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I'm a relatively inexperienced user, so apologies in advance for any misuse of terminology, or lack of understanding of the app.

I've imported my StrongVPN profile successfully and am able to connect just fine. However, when I attempt to access any website in Safari or Chrome for iOS, the browser hangs, then the VPN appears to disconnect (the icon disappears from the header bar), the page loads, and the VPN connects again. I'm not using any other proxies or advanced settings at all.

The purpose of using this VPN (in addition to security) is to use a static IP address for the purposes of testing a web application in mobile Safari or Chrome. When I go to http://whatismyip.com/ in Safari or Chrome, the VPN will disconnect and my regular router IP will display.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

EDIT: If it helps, here's a log of a session in which this issue occurred (abbreviated version with some bits removed for clarity):

2013-01-31 11:59:44 ----- OpenVPN Start -----
2013-01-31 11:59:44 LZO-ASYM init swap=0 asym=1
2013-01-31 11:59:44 Comp-stub init swap=0
2013-01-31 11:59:44 EVENT: RESOLVE
2013-01-31 11:59:44 EVENT: WAIT
2013-01-31 11:59:44 Connecting to 199.127.254.64:4398 (199.127.254.64) via UDPv4
2013-01-31 11:59:45 EVENT: CONNECTING
2013-01-31 11:59:45 Tunnel Options:V4,dev-type tun,link-mtu 1542,tun-mtu 1500,proto UDPv4,comp-lzo,keydir 1,cipher BF-CBC,auth SHA1,keysize 128,tls-auth,key-method 2,tls-client
2013-01-31 11:59:45 Peer Info:
IV_VER=1.0
IV_PLAT=ios
IV_NCP=1
IV_SNAPPY=1
IV_LZO=1
IV_LZO_SWAP=1
IV_COMP_STUB=1

2013-01-31 11:59:46 VERIFY OK: depth=0
...

2013-01-31 11:59:46 VERIFY OK: depth=1
...

2013-01-31 11:59:47 SSL Handshake: TLSv1.0/SSL-EDH-RSA-AES-256-SHA
2013-01-31 11:59:47 Session is ACTIVE
2013-01-31 11:59:48 EVENT: GET_CONFIG
2013-01-31 11:59:48 Sending PUSH_REQUEST to server...
2013-01-31 11:59:48 OPTIONS:
0 [redirect-gateway] [def1]
1 [ping-restart] [60]
2 [ping] [1]
3 [route-delay] [2]
4 [route-metric] [1]
5 [dhcp-option] [DNS] [98.158.112.60]
6 [dhcp-option] [DNS] [199.127.248.22]
7 [route] [10.8.1.249]
8 [topology] [net30]
9 [ifconfig] [10.8.1.254] [10.8.1.253]

2013-01-31 11:59:48 LZO-ASYM init swap=0 asym=1
2013-01-31 11:59:48 Comp-stub init swap=0
2013-01-31 11:59:48 EVENT: ASSIGN_IP
2013-01-31 11:59:48 Connected via tun
2013-01-31 11:59:48 EVENT: CONNECTED @199.127.254.64:4398 (199.127.254.64) via /UDPv4 on tun/10.8.1.254/

... NOTE: THIS IS ABOUT WHEN I STARTED TO ACCESS HTTP://WHATISMYIP.COM ... hangs for 40 seconds or so


2013-01-31 12:00:28 Session invalidated
2013-01-31 12:00:28 Client terminated, restarting in 2...
2013-01-31 12:00:30 EVENT: RECONNECTING
2013-01-31 12:00:30 LZO-ASYM init swap=0 asym=1
2013-01-31 12:00:30 Comp-stub init swap=0
2013-01-31 12:00:30 EVENT: RESOLVE
2013-01-31 12:00:30 EVENT: WAIT
2013-01-31 12:00:30 Connecting to 199.127.254.64:4398 (199.127.254.64) via UDPv4
2013-01-31 12:00:30 EVENT: CONNECTING
2013-01-31 12:00:30 Tunnel Options:V4,dev-type tun,link-mtu 1542,tun-mtu 1500,proto UDPv4,comp-lzo,keydir 1,cipher BF-CBC,auth SHA1,keysize 128,tls-auth,key-method 2,tls-client
2013-01-31 12:00:30 Peer Info:
IV_VER=1.0
IV_PLAT=ios
IV_NCP=1
IV_SNAPPY=1
IV_LZO=1
IV_LZO_SWAP=1
IV_COMP_STUB=1

2013-01-31 12:00:32 VERIFY OK: depth=0
...

2013-01-31 12:00:32 VERIFY OK: depth=1
...

2013-01-31 12:00:32 SSL Handshake: TLSv1.0/SSL-EDH-RSA-AES-256-SHA
2013-01-31 12:00:32 Session is ACTIVE
2013-01-31 12:00:33 EVENT: GET_CONFIG
2013-01-31 12:00:33 Sending PUSH_REQUEST to server...
2013-01-31 12:00:34 OPTIONS:
0 [redirect-gateway] [def1]
1 [ping-restart] [60]
2 [ping] [1]
3 [route-delay] [2]
4 [route-metric] [1]
5 [dhcp-option] [DNS] [98.158.112.60]
6 [dhcp-option] [DNS] [199.127.248.22]
7 [route] [10.8.1.249]
8 [topology] [net30]
9 [ifconfig] [10.8.1.254] [10.8.1.253]

2013-01-31 12:00:34 LZO-ASYM init swap=0 asym=1
2013-01-31 12:00:34 Comp-stub init swap=0
2013-01-31 12:00:34 EVENT: ASSIGN_IP
2013-01-31 12:00:34 Connected via tun
2013-01-31 12:00:34 EVENT: CONNECTED @199.127.254.64:4398 (199.127.254.64) via /UDPv4 on tun/10.8.1.254/
2013-01-31 12:00:53 EVENT: DISCONNECTED
2013-01-31 12:00:53 Raw stats on disconnect:
BYTES_IN : 12238
BYTES_OUT : 11773
PACKETS_IN : 116
PACKETS_OUT : 125
TUN_BYTES_IN : 2321
TUN_PACKETS_IN : 34
COMPRESS_ERROR : 44
KEEPALIVE_TIMEOUT : 1
N_RECONNECT : 1
2013-01-31 12:00:53 Performance stats on disconnect:
CPU usage (microseconds): 390427
Tunnel compression ratio (downlink): inf
Network bytes per CPU second: 61499
Tunnel bytes per CPU second: 5944
2013-01-31 12:00:53 ----- OpenVPN Stop -----