Re: lynx-dev "hanging" after d)ownloading large file

[Leonid Pauzner]

18-Dec-99 06:07 Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:

>> I have extended read progress status enabled, and
>> for some sites lynx "handgs" when getting the page (as a result of normal 
>> link
>> activation) - the read status shown is like
>>      Read 2345 of 2345
>> - ie all content is read,

> No it doesn't mean that.  Not reliably, not for HTTP.
Perhaps "Read 2345 of 2345" was a wrong citation from memory (trace log
may be useful).

>> but seems that remote server didn't close
I saw this once: lynx shows "Read XXX KB" status and "hang", than I
press 'Z' and got the output of ~10 lines. That was a page generated by
cgi script (perhaps script was not exited and STDOUT was not closed in a
right place).

>> connection. As I remember, all http servers with which I saw this problem was
>> Apaches. Seems that this problem is not caused by Proxy - there is a status
>> window for WinProxy, that shows all present connections - with 'hanging' lynx
>> connection among them

> I don't see how this leads to the conclusion that it's not the proxy's fault.

>> (so I assume that either remote server or Windows TCP
>> stack is guilty).


>    Klaus