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.


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