Hi folks,
at least for me, 1.70 r2 works fine. Also 1.60b1 which I used a long
time was very nice.
Regards Joerg
On Thu, 24 May 2001 03:12:17 -0700, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2001 03:00:11 -0400 (EDT) Thomas Mueller wrote:
> -----------snip------------
>> 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
-- Arachne V1.70, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
