Well, we certainly have been treated to quite a few versions of Arachne
recently ... perhaps you have "taken a leaf out of Linus' book"? ;-)
Well done Michael!
Anyway, I finally managed to actually try 1.65 (for DOS) over the
weekend, to check out some bugs/fixes. Results as follows :
1. Virtual screen lock-up after login to "www.start.com.au" :
One of the problems with testing web stuff is that web pages are
always changing ... I had no trouble with 1.65, however, when I
double-checked with 1.64, this no longer crashed either! Can you
or someone else confirm if this problem was addressed in 1.65
(or has the problem HTML been changed at www.start.com.au)?
2. xSwap crash at "www.freeonline.com.au/corporate/connect.html" :
This problem has *not* been fixed. :-(
3. New problem (still under investigation) :
I haven't worked out yet what I did, but the dialer broke! After
some investigation, I found line 10 of "arachne.cfg" had
"Hangup @termin.com 0x60>NUL" and the last line was
missing "Connection @epppd.exe>>PPP.LOG". After changing
these two lines, the dialer was working again.
Also, I noticed that at the end of "arachne.cfg" there was a line
"AlltNameServer ..." - why does the secondary name server appear
*twice* in "arachne.cfg", with the second appearance mis-spelt?
As for lost clusters, I don't get these unless Arachne crashes (I use
the "Clear cache" button via Arachne Desktop, etc.); WRT virus
checking, 1.65 was OK with Norton Antivirus ...
Best regards,
Joe.
Appendix : Previous correspondence #1
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 19:56:35 +1000, da Silva, Joe wrote:
> 1. Go to "www.start.com.au"
> 2. Wait a little bit
> 2. Login as User = "arachne", Password = "browser"
> 3. Wait(!) a few minutes (lots of cookies and crap)
> 4. CRASH !!!!!
> Simple, and VERY reproducible (well for me at least,
> with 1.62 for DOS ...)!
> Bye! ;-)
At http://www.start.com.au/
The second frame (which is set to a size of zero [0]),
has a "refresh" tag in it.
This causes it to automatically load a Microsoft VBScript page after 31 sec.
That VBScript has an error in it.
---quoted from the page loaded after 31 sec. ----
<font face="Arial" size=2>
<p>Microsoft VBScript runtime </font> <font face="Arial" size=2>error
'800a000d'</font>
<p>
<font face="Arial" size=2>Type mismatch: 'CLng'</font>
<p>
<font face="Arial"
size=2>/Network/System/Pages/System_Pages_Status_c.asp</font><font
face="Arial"
size=2>, line 23</font>
_________________
So, we actually have 2 problems.
1) http://www.start.com.au/ has some "bad code".
2) Arachne should not crash when it gets this code within a frame set.
I was able to see what was happening by turning frames "off".
With frames "on"..... the first try it simply froze-up-tight.
Complete lock-up including keyboard not functional.
(even the CapsLock, ScrollLock and NumLock keys were "locked")
The second try.....
I was kicked out of Arachne to the infamous "Error loading font file"
message. CapsLock, ScrollLock and NumLock keys worked OK.. but nothing
else worked. (had to press the reset button)
Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA
Appendix : Previous correspondence #2
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn McCorkle [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 14 July 2000 5:37
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: V1.64 : Cool crash! (xSwap)
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:54:56 +1000, da Silva, Joe wrote:
> This is cool - I've just seen my first "xSwap" crash (Arachne
V1.64 for
> DOS)!
> Hey ... at least this type of crash doesn't lock-up my machine!
;-)
> Error Message :
> Memory allocation error - Illegal xSwap operation at line 222 of
file
> URLOVRL.C!
> Trying to deallocate xSwap ... ok
---- snip ----
Here's the problem, (https)
<td width="30"><img height="20" width="222"
src="https://www.freeonline.com.au/preregister/images/capture12.gif"
align="right"></td>
The resutling "unknown protocol in URL" instead of an image is
what's
causing the at http://www.freeonline.com.au/corporate/connect.html
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Polak [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, 23 July 2000 18:04
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: 1.66 for DOS was released
>
>
> I am going to announce it in arachne-announce tomorrow (probably in the
> afternoon) if there are no _serious_ complaints (and they shouldn't be !!!
> Even one inch was trimmed to be 2.54 mm ;-)))
>
> I am also going to upload mmem166.apm, which contains the most lightweight
> build of 1.66, for machines with no XMS (no Hicolor/no virtual screens/no
> animated GIFs). It saves some 30 KB of DOS memory... 256c166.apm, which
> saves 9 KB, is already online.
>
> --
> http://arachne.cz/
> (Arachne WWW browser for DOS+Linux / Webhosting / MP3streaming)
