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Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:34:12 PST7
From:	xowatson@concentric.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: troublesome URL

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I'm guessing your laptop has a cookie which automatically logs you
in, so you're seeing something we who don't have accounts can't
see. The login page has no java, though it calls some server-side
scripts, so the pages that are sent after login will be different than
what we are seeing, and may indeed contain some java with
commands that require a higher level than 1.18.

On 17 Feb 2002 at 20:32, Benedict G. Archer wrote:
> My browser is Netscape 4.61 (latest) with java 1.18 (no update).
> Verizon is my ISP which may cause me to see something different than
> others. If I open my browser with a blank page and then go to
> www.verizon.net I can see the location field change, perhaps in more
> than one step, to start.verizon.net/vzn.isp/ispindex.htm?ver=23524. The
> last numeric characters may not always be the same. Initial loading has
> always been slow. But recently it's even slower, but worse, every few
> minutes while browsing mail or news, the activity meter in warpcenter
> goes to max, the cursor becomes a clockface, and I can't do anything for
> perhaps a full minute or more (the activity trace remains pegged for
> about the full width of the actvity monitor window). Eventually the
> system regains function, but then every minute or so the activity
> monitor pegs again and I wait some more. Here's the message I tried to
> mail:
> Dave,
>
> The offending URL is reached from www.gte.net which is apparently mapped
> to www.verizon.net which immediately takes you to various other urls
> beginning
> start.verizon.net/[very long variable string], all of which result in
> the behavior I described at the meeting. I confirmed the behavior
> described at the meeting while watching iptrace. To recap, once I visit
> one of these urls, the behavior in both mail and news are affected (but
> not other sites, e.g., SCOUG.com). When the effect occurs the activity
> monitor goes to max, the cursor becomes an almost constant clock face,
> and I can't do anything else until the episode ends (long enough that
> the activity monitor trace is at max for very nearly the entire width of
> its display window). The condition re-occurs every few minutes but
> doesn't seem to be triggered by any particular action, certainly nothing
> that requires communication with the isp server. iptrace shows lots of
> activity while in this state, but not constant activity. When the spasm
> ends, iptrace is quiet (except for expected activity). I have JAVA,
> javascript and style sheets enabled. Can't recall the details, but I
> had found, by trial and error, some time ago that these settings were
> needed to make some other sites accessible (one site that just wound not
> display without at least some of these settings was www.tyan.com). The
> site has been changed since then and I haven't checked again if these
> settings are still needed. But regarding my recent problem, if I set my
> home page to blank, or open the browser for mail, the symptoms do not
> occur.
>
> I'm sending this because the gte/verizon site seems to be a candidate
> for a list of sites that are troublesome for OS/2.
>
> Ben A.
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