program hangs in event termination

I have a function that performs a get and then enters the event loop.  My event loop termination function deletes the request and stops the event loop when it gets called.  This was all working fine until I tried to retrieve a document from a server and a time out occurred.  The event loop termination function was called, the request was deleted and the event loop was stopped, but then the system just hangs.  Has anyone seen this problem before?  What can be done to keep the program from stalling? 

Thanks in advance,
Brian