On Thu, 31 May 2001 03:19:53 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> (begin quote)
> In the last week or so I've noticed a new behavior on the part of
> 1.70r3 ... I have cfg set up for "safe" parallel downloads of images.
Where do you find the setup option for "safe" parallel downloads
of images? I looked for this option and I could not find it.
> I get a rather weird message on some pages [the page in the URL was
> visited for the first time today, yet I got it there] and a "soft
> lock" on page download. The "soft lock" can be broken by simply
> "terminating download"; with the page at the URL, and all others I can
> remember off hand, the page is then rendered correctly and no images
> are missing. So it would see that the problem is not *actually* with
> downloading an image.
> The message: Waiting for parallel image download to finish -30473 of
> -30473
> That's right, those are minus signs.
> http://actuate.com/templates/articleview.asp?Article_id=483
> Anyone wants to try it and see what happens, be my guest. <G>
The above URL was fetched, rendered and displayed perfectly
normally for me. Received no message "Waiting for parallel image
download to finish..." I have received such messages on other
URLs, but I don't remember if any numbers follow the message.
> l.d.
> -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
> (end of quote)
> I remember once recently waiting for Arachne to finish a negative-sized
> download:
> http://www.polywell.com/products_2.html
> Waiting for parallel image download to finish ... (-29558 of -29558)
Also the above URL worked perfectly normally for me. No message about
waiting for parallel image download to finish.
<snip>
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
