On Sunday, November 24th, 2024 at 11:10 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> I frequently use worldcat.org, provided by OCLC (Online > Computer Library Center), which is a "union catalog" of > 30,000+ libraries in 100+ countries. Some people travel > for beaches, I travel for libraries, and may someday be > arrested for trespassing in a university's closed stacks. > > Anyway ... > > I can reliably access: > > https://search.worldcat.org/ > > ... using Brave Browser on all of my computers except for > one ancient 3GB Thinkpad, recently upgraded to Debian 12.7. > I can always reach worldcat with firefox, and often with my > first attempt with Brave, but subsequent attempts produce > a very brief web page with a banner that says: > > > Pretty-print □ > ------------------------------ > {} > > > ------------------------------ > > Clicking the □ checkbox turns "{}" into: > > Pretty-print □ > ------------------------------ > { > > } > ------------------------------ > > (the box turns blue with a white checkmark) > > ... which is strange, but not the worldcat.org site. > > I fiddled with traceroute on both machines. On the > laptop I got intermittent pointers to a correct > worldcat.org IP address 104.18.32.188, but soon > realized that I don't know enough to debug this. > > Anyway, I can use firefox on that old laptop, but I'm > curious about what's happening, and would like to > solve the problem before an update breaks firefox. > > All that said, the problem may be in worldcat's vast > routing tables, timing out with a slower machine. > Who knows? ... I ask "literally". > > Keith L. > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Not sure if this will help or not, but on firefox you can open the inspector and click on the network tab. This will show you all http requests made in the loading of the page. It also shows the status codes, so if you are getting redirected or something you will see that. On my firefox system I see 226 requests involved in the loading of this page. -Ben
