Re: Cure for a 'bad' combo: Stupid IIS webserver + Linux/Mozilla/*slow* internet

From: Robert Heller (heller_at_deepsoft.com)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 05:57:17 +0200

  Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent>,
  In a message on Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:30:07 -0400, wrote :

BM> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:46:36 +0200, Robert Heller
BM> <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:
BM> > I have this problem: my bank seems to use a MS-Windows (IIS maybe) web
BM> > server for their on-line banking. I am using Mozilla on a Linux box
BM> > with a *slow* dial-up connection. *Sometimes*, if for whatever reason
BM> > mozilla fails to download the bank's on-line banking page (which are
BM> > excessive heavy with graphics and junk), mozilla 'goes south'. It gets
BM> > sort of stuck loading the page. Nothing shows up and no progress is
BM> > made. I have an external modem and I can see that there is no activity
BM> > (the RD/SD light are dark). I can seem to exit from mozilla -- ^Q will
BM> > cause all of mozilla's windows to go away, but the mozilla process
BM> > linger (show up with ps x). I have to do a killall mozilla-bin to
BM> > really kill it off. If I then restart mozilla fresh, I might be able to
BM> > get my on-line banking (I may have to wait 8 minutes for the open
BM> > session to timeout).
BM> >
BM> Does the bank page use Flash? A clue is when you move the cursor over
BM> certain links, the pointer changes to a different "hand" shape, and if
BM> you right-click, you get a Flash menu with "Play", "Loop" and other
BM> choices. Flash pages may take a long time to load after the browser
BM> says "Done".

No flash. I've disabled flash (removed it from the plugin directory).
The bank does use JavaScript.

It seems to be some 'feature' of MS-Windows and/or IIS (the bank does us
MS-Windows server and IIS/4.0) that seems to 'give up' if the page
download does not complete in some time limit and it gives up in a way
that confuses mozilla (like it does not bother to close the internet
socket).

I'll probably be giving up on this bank by the end of the year.

BM>
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