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Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2002 20:32:09 PST7
From:	"Benedict G. Archer" <bgarcher@gte.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: troublesome URL

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xowatson@concentric.net wrote:
>
> On 17 Feb 2002 at 13:55, Benedict G. Archer wrote:
> > Dave, I tried to mail this to you with some details, but mail to
> > Dave@SCOUG.com bounces.
>
> Sorry about that Ben. We'll get the address fixed.
>
> What happens when you hit verizon.net, and what version of Opera
> and Java are you using?
>
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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