On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:03:48PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I noticed something that's relevant to the earlier discussion about > caching images and so forth. It appears that even when mozilla > caches the images, it doesn't *use* the cache if all the connections > are used up.
Most annoying. Have you tried with Konqueror? > > 20:48 greycat> Meanwhile, someone please explain THIS!: > http://wooledge.org/~greg/cachedimages.png > 20:48 greycat> that logo *still* isn't loaded > 20:49 toad_> greycat: explain what? > 20:49 greycat> why isn't the imge loaded? > 20:49 greycat> that key has already DNFed about 8 times > 20:49 toad_> the rabbit icon? > 20:50 greycat> yes > 20:50 toad_> what happens when you right click open in new tab? > 20:50 greycat> the rabbit isn't DNF'ing. The CHK@ is DNF'ing, the rabbit is > supposed to be there already. > 20:50 silent-fish> hrm > 20:50 greycat> This relates to the mailing list discussions where you swore > up and down that all these images are supposed to be cached by the browser > 20:50 silent-fish> that's the new error page that got sent to devl, right? > 20:50 greycat> yes > 20:51 toad_> but the rabbit isn't loadinbg > 20:51 silent-fish> hrm > 20:51 toad_> why isn't the rabbit loading? > 20:51 greycat> and even with *one* image on it, it still sometimes fails to > load the images immediately > 20:51 silent-fish> shouldn't the image icon be a broken image if it wasn't > there? > 20:51 greycat> the rabbit loads very quickly once I stop TFE in the other tab > 20:51 toad_> good point - it's still loading it? > 20:51 toad_> greycat: DUHH! > 20:52 toad_> so what are you complaining about? > 20:52 greycat> why didn't mozilla load the image from its cache? why did it > have to wait for a connection to the node to become available? > 20:53 toad_> I don't know > 20:53 toad_> have you disabled caching? > 20:53 greycat> no > 20:53 toad_> they SHOULD be cached... > 20:53 toad_> we set an expiry date of 24 hours > 20:53 greycat> now, the point is, multiply that by a hundred little tiny > images for the normal error page > 20:53 toad_> no, that's BS > 20:53 toad_> the image will be cached > 20:54 greycat> and yes, I checked the headers the other day, the image/png > is sending out proper-looking headers > 20:54 toad_> if the image is not cached, THAT is the problem > 20:54 silent-fish> greycat: iirc, mozilla reads the cache in the network > retrieve part of the code, not in the part which calls the network retreive > part. the network retrieve part only gets called n times per host etc etc etc > 20:54 toad_> silent-fish: hrmm > 20:54 greycat> in other words, cache lookups block waiting on network > lookups. Brilliant. > > -- > Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." > greg at wooledge.org | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers > http://wooledge.org/~greg/ | _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
