This is just a guess and not something that I ever looked into.
Does the page contain lots of HREFs? ND does some caching of information
for Netscape (in user session informarion) that it doesn't do for IE
(because Netscape is capable of dynamic frames targeting, but, at least
until recently, IE isn't).
-- Grace
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Gentile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: nd4.talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
nd3.talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 6:57 AM
Subject: [ND] Experiencing server side performance hit based on client side
browser.
> I'm running into a performance degradation taking place server-side and
> depends on the target client's browser. Does anyone know why this might be
> happening?
>
> If my client is IE, the code gets executed in less than 1 second. If my
> client is Netscape, it takes 4 seconds. Why the target browser is having
any
> effect on server side code is beyond me. If its any help, the file being
> read in contains JavaScript which is being imbedded in the html file being
> served up.
>
> For this project, I'm using ND3 and the development app. server and studio
> are on NT.
>
> The app. server is doing a file read during the onBeforeHtmlOutputEvent of
a
> static text area. Here's the code snippet.
>
> *** BEGIN CODE ***
> CSpLog.send (this, CSpLog.HIGH_LEVEL, "file " + f.toString() + " exists");
> CSpLog.send (this, CSpLog.HIGH_LEVEL, "file being read : started at " +
new
> java.util.Date() );
>
> FileReader in = new FileReader(f);
> int ch;
> while((ch = in.read()) > -1){
> buf.append((char)ch);
> }
>
> CSpLog.send (this, CSpLog.HIGH_LEVEL, "file read : ended at " + new
> java.util.Date() );
> *** END CODE ***
>
> The log shows that "file read : end at ..." is consistently around 4
seconds
> for Netscape clients whereas its 1 second for IE.
>
> Paul Gentile
> Consultant - Cardinal Group International. Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (508) 620-9119 x170
>
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