On Thu, 24 May 2001 03:00:11 -0400 (EDT) Thomas Mueller wrote:
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> However, I must caution you that v1.70;r3 has one very nasty bug.
> The "run-away download" bug is a real killer. :((
> For that reason, my advice is to try v1.69 instead.
> http://browser.arachne.cz/browser/old/archn169.exe
NO..!!!...don't give him 1.69...that has the "Your Browser sent this
Server a message this server did not understand" bug.
1.67 and 1.68 both had the "MemoryMonster" bug, baaaaddd...!!!
About the best, most recent version is the 1.66...it is very stable,
and has most of the bells and whistles...
IMNSHO, 1.70r3 is almost perfect, if it weren't for the "Runaway
Download" bug, but with that bug, it becomes almost impossible on a
lot of sites.
That is why I load my 1.70r3 Install into my ramdisk, and then, hotswap
to 1.69core.exe or 1.66core.exe....they both work okay inside the
1.70r3 install....AFAIK, there was a .CFG change back about 1.62, so
you can't use CORE.EXEs from before that with the 1.70r3 install.
> Glenn, is that what happened to me when Arachne went bananas on
> http://www.cdw.com
> and downloaded up to 8400000 bytes, though it didn't show on any disk,
not
even
> in the cache or TMP directory?
Thomas,
YES...!!! That IS the "RunawayDownload" bug, exactly. And, you are
correct...it doesn't REALLY download anything, i.e. you can't find
anything in the cache after you experience one of these...because it
is NOT downloading.
What is happening is, that these pages that say, "Downloading X0000
bytes" instead of "Downloading X0000 of Y0000000 bytes", these pages
sometimes throw Arachne into an INTERNAL counting loop...that is all.
It isn't really a download, at all....the count increases rapidly
until it reaches a DOS limit up around 8.5Mbyte, then Arachne crashes.
L.D.'s just previous post covers how to attempt to break out of one
of these RunawayDLs...hitting H or I or M or BACKSPACE several times,
will sometimes break out of it, without you having to do a complete
reboot, BUT, immediately upon coming out of it, you'd better ALT-E
and get rid of some of your garbage, or ALT-X, because it's about
ready to crash.....!!!....<g g g g>
.......gregy
