On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:19:30 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:

> Glenn,

> I have been getting repeating downloads with 1.71UE01.  Could you try this
> site:

> www.ci.tucson.az.us/dsd --> Ordinance & Codes -->

> 2000 International Building Code & _local amendments_.

> This is a 63KB .pdf file and when first download ends, screen goes black, and
> download starts all over again.

What does this line look like in your mime.cfg ?

application/pdf PDF

> Also, as with 1.71, a google search with 50 results per page selected will
> not give a full page.

I am sorry to say that this is one of the side-effects of my
"quick-n-dirty-fix" for the Runaway-download-counter-bug.

On some large pages which do not send the page-size information
in the header. So all we see is on the lower-left of our screen is

"Downloading page (nnn bytes read)" (no % shown)(no progress bar)
instead of
"Downloading page (nnn of nnn bytes) nn% (green progress bar)

What is happening is that those long pages (during net-slow-downs),
will cause the runaway-dowload-countrer-bug to crash the system
when using v1.70;r3

My quick-n-dirty-fix prevents the crash by "forcing" an abort of the D/L
before a memory overflow occures.

I just now tried google with 100 hits per page and all went fine.

But during "peak uasage" times of the day. I would most likely get those
same partial downloads that you got.


I know this QND fix is not perfect.

But I think that most if not all users would agree that a partial
download of some pages every once in a while is much better than the
crashes that were happening in v1.70;r3 <g>


-- 
 Glenn
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