297 days remaining on 1.4 Mb download :)

[Tom Ritch]

On Oct 18, 2004, at 9:23 PM, Tom Ritch wrote:

> On Oct 18, 2004, at 8:36 PM, Clytie Siddall wrote:
>
>> I've noticed, and I think this is only in the betas, that quite often 
>> I have a download which appears to stall without actually giving any 
>> error. I'll go and look, to see if it is finished, and it will still 
>> be sitting there, giving some ridiculous amount of time before 
>> completion.
>> ...
>> Usually, if I reload the download, it starts and finishes normally. 
>> Weird, huh? (
>
> For sure.  But not unusual.  Safari has a similar problem.  I think 
> this problem has been around longer than the current betas.
>
>> Thought I'd better mention it. Anybody else seeing this?
>
> Yep.  Reported long ago as a bug, along with download sites which 
> seemed to be particularly difficult to use.  I think Omni is working 
> on it.


 From the 5.1b3 release notes:

> 	• 	In some rare cases OmniWeb could get into a fetch loop when an 
> HTTP 1.1 web server would close a connection on us without sending any 
> response.

Are downloads more reliable with 5.1b3, Clytie?  I have not had time to 
check yet myself, but I suspect this fixes our problem.

Tom