On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 19:30:55 +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote: > Hey again,
> some more problems that I have noticed (1.70rev3): > when you 'stop' a page that is downloading and I think its just > when the page is open ended (that is, we don't know how big the > page might be), arachne starts counting and counting, pretending to > receive the rest of the page but never gets to the end, the page size > just gets bigger and bigger. I am not sure if this happens all > the time or not, but I have noticed it a few times. Yep, you are being bitten by the "Run-away DownLoad" bug. More acurately.... "Run-away DownLoad 'Counter') I made a "Quick-N-Dirty fix". If Michael likes it...... > sometimes if a menu box (I think thats what its called) is maybe > too large then it will display but you can't select anything from > it. You can maybe see this in action at Google groups - go into > 'all groups' and it should have a menu box for you to pick the > next level of group names (so you can browse the group names) - but > you can't. In every case that I have seen, this is caused by the absence of action="" in the form which is the menu. The work-around is to edit the page and add action="" into the form. <form > Change to, <form action=""> > further to the red box problem, I have HTTPKeepAlive No now and it > doesn't seem to red box me any more! I guess Arachne is being > refused (or loses) the download somehow and with KeepAlive it just > keeps the link open and assumes eventually that it has the data whereas > without the keepalive, it tries again successfully? Yes... That seems to be it. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
