"Server too busy" in OW not IE

[Scott M]

Maurice,


It would seem that this server is tripping on the Accept-Languages 
header that OmniWeb sends with the request for the page.  I have seen 
this before with this same type of server (a MS IIS 5 machine).

That said, you can work around this by using an invisible preference 
that's in OmniWeb.  To do this, make sure OmniWeb is not running, then 
issue the following command using the 'defaults' utility either by 
typing it in or copying from here and pasting into Terminal:

defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniWeb 
OWHTTPSessionAcceptLanguageOverride ""

and to remove this override:

defaults remove com.omnigroup.OmniWeb OWHTTPSessionAcceptLanguageOverride

You can view what OmniWeb is sending to the server in it's Error Log 
(found under 'Tools') with the "Show HTTP requests" item enabled.  The 
header is sent to a server at the beginning of a session and looks (for 
me) like this:

Accept-Language: en, *;q=0.5

but for you, if you have all languages installed, it likely looks like 
this:

Accept-Language: en, ja;q=0.94, zh-cn;q=0.88, zh-tw;q=0.81, ko;q=0.75, 
es;q=0.69, fr;q=0.62, it;q=0.56, nl;q=0.50, pt;q=0.44, sv;q=0.38, 
no;q=0.31, da;q=0.25, fi;q=0.19, de;q=0.12, *;q=0.06


As a warning, overriding this setting will prevent OmniWeb from 
communicating to web servers that you can receive pages in other 
languages.  If you have any questions regarding this, please feel free 
to contact me directly.


Sincerely,


Scott
Support Engineer
Omni Group



On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 09:56  AM, Maurice Weitman wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> Doing a search in AltaVista for "New Balance 608" yields loads of hits, 
> many of which, including <http://sport-
> apparel.hobbytribe.com/new-balance-608.html>, result in a "Server too 
> busy."
>
> The same URL works fine in IE.  I've tried various browser spoofs with 
> the same result.
>
> Regards,
> Maurice