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A total waste of bandwidth

Discussion in 'PriusChat Website Questions' started by hobbit, Dec 17, 2008.

  1. hobbit

    hobbit Senior Member

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    Normally I read with a text-only browser, so I hadn't noticed
    this before. But in a graphic environment, I loaded a priuschat
    page and then noticed that it never *stopped* loading, even
    though the whole page was displayed. Here's why.
    .
    One page component is
    http://priuschat.com/forums/images/misc/11x11progress.gif
    which gets handed out with these HTTP headers:
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    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:18:09 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
    Last-Modified: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:21:55 GMT
    ETag: "a281b6-219-45851ac68fec0"
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 537
    Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
    Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: image/gif
    .
    The combination of the expiry time and the cache-control line causes
    a browser to reload 11x11progress.gif, over and over and over and over
    until you manually stop the load. There is no delay on this, it
    happens as fast as the browser and intervening network can do it.
    .
    If we must have this relatively useless "progress spinny", please
    lose the screwed-up caching stuff so it loads only once. It's already
    a self-looping animation [which, by the way, should have at least
    *some* minimal delay time added other than 0ms]. Or just eliminate
    it entirely, because frankly it comes up in a completely irrelevant
    part of a page and I can't even see what it's supposed to be indicating.
    .
    _H*
     
    #1 hobbit, Dec 17, 2008
  2. qbee42

    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    Yea, it's a great piece of coding, isn't it? You have to wonder who writes code like this.

    Tom
     
    #2 qbee42, Dec 17, 2008
  3. firepa63

    firepa63 Former Prius Owner

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    If I have to "Rollover to see the power of the sun" one more time, I'm only going to visit PriusChat at night...!
     
    #3 firepa63, Dec 17, 2008
  4. Helio

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    :amen: Brother! The Power of the Sun! I get it already!
     
    #4 Helio, Dec 17, 2008
  5. Helio

    Helio Member

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    I don't think I'm having that endless 'loading' with Google Chrome, I have noticed that with Mozilla though.
     
    #5 Helio, Dec 17, 2008
  6. Rae Vynn

    Rae Vynn Artist In Residence

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    What I hate is the intermittent hijacking of my posting. I'll post a reply, and what loads is JUST the ad banner. That's it. Nothing else. It spins forever. I have to hit the back button to get back to the main page.

    The power of the sun banner just p***es me off. Continually.
     
    #6 Rae Vynn, Dec 17, 2008
  7. hyo silver

    hyo silver Awaaaaay

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    I haven't seen that sun ad in quite awhile. I get one advertising a 'Pontaic Montana' No that's not my typo, it's in the ad. "Buy our car and we'll give you cash back!" How stupid do they think people are?
     
    #7 hyo silver, Dec 17, 2008
  8. Danny

    Danny Admin/Founder
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    H* - I have no idea what the code even means, so I'll take a look into it and see what I can find out.

    Regarding the Sharp ads, they are only through the end of this month...
     
    #8 Danny, Dec 17, 2008
  9. Danny

    Danny Admin/Founder
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    It looks like it's an image that is loaded for the tag bar at the top of the thread for when you edit them. When you were browsing on the graphic browser that you were using, did you have javascript enabled? The progress icon is connected to a javascript AJAX call, and if you have JS disabled, perhaps that is causing the reload.

    I don't have any continuous load problems on my browser.
     
    #9 Danny, Dec 17, 2008
  10. Danny

    Danny Admin/Founder
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    Of course now it has started doing it to me...
     
    #10 Danny, Dec 17, 2008
  11. patsparks

    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    I haven't notice but I'm an ignorant Aussie who knows little about computers.
    I just use IE.
     
    #11 patsparks, Dec 17, 2008
  12. qbee42

    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    It probably works okay down your way, with all the clockwise rotation and such. :rolleyes:

    Tom
     
    #12 qbee42, Dec 17, 2008
  13. firepa63

    firepa63 Former Prius Owner

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    Oh come on... It's downhill. Gravity speeds it up.
     
    #13 firepa63, Dec 17, 2008
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