From: pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
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Subject: Re: pthreads?
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 17:13:54 GMT
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
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>Thanks for your report and suggestions.
>
>However, I need to understand this problem some more to put something
>intelligent into the FAQ.  I would like to avoid saying something
>mysterious like ``don't use Netscape with that site''; AFAIK, there
>should be no problems using FTP protocol from a Web browser.
>
>So please tell more details.  Perhaps this is a bug specific to some
>version of Netscape, but not others.  Does IE have the same problem?
>Did someone try to look at the specific error message, or contact the
>site maintainers and ask them about the reasons?  Etc., etc.

The symptoms I saw involved only timing out while trying to access the
site.  I.E., Netscape would say, "Connecting to ....." after you type
in or paste the url, but the server never responded, so Netscape would
time out, saying the server was either too busy or not responding.

This happened both on weekday evenings and weekend daytimes and
evenings.  Since this is a ".edu" site, I wonder if their web
bandwidth is just too busy from all the MP3 downloading going on at
universities these days?

I do not use IE at all, so I cannot tell you if it has the same
problem.  I did not contact the site maintainers, since WSFTP_LE got
me to the site without any problems.

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