On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 15:38:13 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> Maybe Glenn has some understanding of the "red sqaure" problem and >> can elucidate
> If you are using either v1.69 or v1.70..... > The problem is that with "Multitasking Yes" and "HTTPkeepAlive Yes" > Arachne is too fast for some sites. Nope. I've got "Multitasking No" So that's not the problem. I tried the "right click, reload and back" technique and was able to grab the image in question. Sometimes they just don't load the first time around. The problem comes and goes and I've never been able to discern any consistency. > We endup with some images not grabbed because Arachne was faster in > making requests than the site was able to accomplish with only 2 > connections open. (as you may already know, Arachne is limited to only 2 > simultanious connections). > Try turning off one or the other. > (Multitasking No, or HTTPkeepAlive No) > See if you then get all of the images at that site at that time. > Again, this will not always happen at the same site at a different time. > (it depends upon how many users are making requests of that server at > that particular time) > __________ > 2 more possible causes, > The red box (in some very few cases), might also be due to the image > not being there at-all. (incorrect URL in the page SRC) > And in some few cases.... "off site" images which cannot be accessed for > some reason. (incorrect URL, off-site server down, etc, etc) > Example of both... http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/redboxes.htm These might be rare secondary causes but something else is going on most of the time. Beats me. I'm using 1.70r3 and when the red square shows up it shows up even before the jpeg to BMP conversion. You can have fifteeen images on the page and one or two will be red sqaures and the rest will load and convert sucessfully. The problem is not site dependent because you'll get different squares on the same page at different times even though all the files are there and seem to download ok. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
