While this is not a WWWOFFLE problem, I am turning to the list for advice, since <Linux | WWWOFFLE> are outside the scope of the one to whom this query should be addressed.
I recently participated in an online auction (of green coffee-beans) in which there were many other bidders eager to lodge their bids at (more or less) the same time (and the rules are - first in, best dressed). My existing setup coped adequately until I sent the message to purchase my selected quantities of the offered varieties. Then, because of delays caused by system load at the remote host, I got a time-out message from WWWOFFLE instead of the expected acknowledgement of the purchase. Consequently I was left totally in the dark about the <arrival | non-arrival> of my purchase request. Looking at the contents of the WWWOFFLE cache subsequently (when offline), it turned out that the remote host did receive the request and send an acknowledgement; the reply made it to the cache, but not to the screen of my computer. So the question is - which of WWWOFFLE's three timeout default-settings should be changed to avoid a repeat of this hiccough? Felix Karpfen -- Felix Karpfen Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA)
