Usually any hotkey will stop a page download ... H for hotlist or I for
inbox, etc. I haven't tried it with a "runaway" because ESC would get
me out and at that point I didn't want to see the page anyway. <G>
One fix I would very much like to see in Arachne, until/unless we
finally get https up and running in it, is the ability to ignore any
graphics in a page that have https in the URL. That particular problem
can cause a never-ending loop trying to load graphics that can't be
reached.
Maybe some sort of "stop downloading the page" routine could be put in
so that when Arachne would normally display the "unknown protocol
screen" it would be told to give up on getting that graphic??
l.d.
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On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 02:29:11 -0700, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> et al,
> A temporary workaround for this problem, caused by clicking X, hitting
> EXC, or hitting R in the middle of downloading a page that gives no
> "total bytes" (e.g. Downloading Page <1000 of 10000>), is:
> 1. instead of hitting anything else, hit F8. It will look like it
> is going to start the runaway download, then go into the clearcache
> routine, and then start reloading the page.
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
