POSSIBLE SOLUTION, Re: Netscape for Windows home page quirk

[Alejandro Garza Gonzalez]

We have a Windows 3.1 workstation running NS 2.02, and had the particular 
problem of Netscape only reading in a portion of the page, then pausing 
until the user cancelled the document request with ESC. I think I have 
figured out why that happened.

The problem was fixed when I added the complete machine and domain name 
to the URL, instead of just having the machine name (e.g.: 
http://www-cib.mty,itesm.mx/ versus http://www-cib/)

Since i have a BASE HREF="http://www-cib.mty.itesm.mx/" tag in the homepage,
I think netscape felt the need to resolve that address for a second time
(since it had already resolved 'www-cib', with no domain). So I think there
is some problem with the DNS resolving; this means, if netscape has to look
up several different addresses, it might get 'mixed up' and stop processing
an HTTP request... 

Some ppl recommend switching off the NETSCAPE.INI line "Async DNS" as 
follows:

  [Network]
  Use Async DNS=no

Which I had done before actually fixing the problem. Perhaps it is a 
combination of both circumnstances.

SO, specifically, Paul Soderdahl or someone else could check on their 
end, if providing a homepage that has no references to outside URLs 
(meaning Netscape doesn't need any further DNS resolving) solves the 
problem, then it's a workaround to a Netscape bug for now. 

(Paul, I see your homepage http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/biz/ has references 
to images on another server...) 

Then again, it could very well be a Trumpet bug.. I don't know about the 
setups of the machines of the people having problems with this; please 
share.

Hope this helps!

_ alejandro garza _________________ __ _ _  _    _
  ITESM Centro de Informacion-Biblioteca Monterrey
  agarza at campus.mty.itesm.mx
_ http://www-cib.mty.itesm.mx/ ____ __ _ _  _    _




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On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Alejandro Garza Gonzalez wrote:

> We have the same problem here. The only way to fix it is to press escape, 
> and then CTRL-I (or stop and Load Images) each time it happens...
> 
> _ alejandro garza _________________ __ _ _  _    _
>   ITESM Centro de Informacion-Biblioteca Monterrey
>   agarza at campus.mty.itesm.mx
> _ http://www-cib.mty.itesm.mx/ ____ __ _ _  _    _
> 
> On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Paul Soderdahl wrote:
> 
> > We have several machines running Windows 3.1.1 and Netscape 2.02.  They are
> > set to default to the home page URL: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/biz/ which
> > contains an HTML document with four inline graphics.
> > 
> > When first launching Netscape, the text loads properly as well as the first
> > image or two.  The remaining images never load (and appear as broken image
> > icons) and Netscape never quits being busy.  (Literally, this can go on for
> > hours.)  However, if one clicks "stop" and "reload" the page immediately
> > loads in toto.  Furthermore, clicking on anything away from the home page
> > and returning to the home page works properly.  (In other words, Netscape
> > never finishes displaying those last two images, but clearly they've been
> > brought over the net ok.)
> > 
> > Has anyone come across this problem before?  (Note, Netscape on the Mac
> > works properly; it's only our Windows version that has this problem.)
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > Paul