rob wrote: > > Hey, > > I do a large amount of local development work with Mozilla and Netscape > 6.x ... running off a locally installed web server such as IIS or Apache. > > Here's the deal: > > Basically, on pages with lots of table structures and many sliced > graphics (we're talking pages with total sizes upwards of 50k) the pages > almost never finish loading and the graphics frequently fail to load, > leaving the page incomplete. Externally loading files, other than the > core html, seem to fail frequently, even reloading. Images, CSS files, > and JS files frequently do not load. The page comes up all distorted > (because empty alt tags are being inserted where spacers where, etc.) > and frequently unreadable. > > I'm a big fan and advocate of Mozilla, but this can be a real problem > for a local developer. I've checked and the problem is happening on my > home machine, my work machine, and two other machines at work running > IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 Professional. As you may or may not know, IIS > on Win2k Professional is limited to 10 simulatneous connections, because > Micro$oft wants you to use Server. > > I checked some HTML/PHP sites on Apache and although I can't use it for > the project I'm on right now (much of what we do is ASP stuff, sorry!) > and guess what? Lets hear it for open source, huh? It works fine on > Apache. Particularly the static ones are telling. Only thing I can > think of is, no connection limits. > > Almost like Mozilla times out connection limits too soon, or something. > > That's the only thing I can think of as being the culprit, but I know > very little about the HTTP connections and how Mozilla reads 'em. > > I was wondering if anyone else, maybe someone involved in Necko or what > have you could look into this, check the connections, etc. etc. etc. > > I'd appreciate it. It is a bit of a problem, because Mozilla is the > only browser that displays this problem, and so all those great > Microsoft Developers which are developing ASP apps locally which we want > to convert to Mozilla "true believers" will automatically open up > Mozilla and be like, "what is this crap??". > > Thanks. > :rob > > > I've had problems with IIS5 too. Mainly, nothing works except the \localhost\ directory. I have nothing there [and all external IPs are blocked - allowing only for 127.0.0.1 to connect], since I keep each WIP-site in a separate location, and share it [i.e. D:\webdev\site1\ is mapped to localhost/site1/]. This works fine in IE, but gives me an error: "You are not authorized to view this page" in both NS4.x and Mozilla. I can open the index.html file in Mozilla, then proceed fine through file:///whatever/. It's a minor inconvenience, but I have no idea why it behaves this way. Anyone have an idea? -bZj -- Brian Z Jones | down8 at yahoo dot com Mozilla 0.9.3 | Windows2000 Server SP2
