297 days remaining on 1.4 Mb download :)

[Tom Ritch]

This problem still exists in 5.1b3, although to a seemingly much less 
extent.

Keep up the good work Omni Group.  The end will soon be in sight.  As 
well as many new goals.  ;-)

Tom

On Oct 21, 2004, at 7:26 AM, Tom Ritch wrote:

> 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