Re: America Online Issues
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
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numero = 16032
interpreted = N
texte = Grant wrote ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------>The normally speedy site is painfully slow via AOL and when the time >comes for delivery/download of the product, (the site sells high >resolution digital artwork) the download just stops before the entire >image is downloaded to disk.Last I checked, AOL still uses a proxy server to get at your site (supposedly to speed things >up), but there may be an option for your visitors to switch to 'direct' connection -- just a guess.AOL also does that weird picture compression before it hands the picture off to the client...perhaps you can provide the picture as some filetype (like ZIP or SIT) that AOL won't think is a picture. And also, you could look for AOL in the [BrowserName] to help you display different text on your site automatically (perhaps an explanation and apology for AOL's slowness)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thanks Grant, I have now put in a page that directs AOL users to enter through a page that tells them to turn off the Use Compressed Images in their AOL prefs. This makes all of the images in the site much clearer and the site overall is a little faster but the downloads still crap out.I would rather not supply the images as anything other than .jpg for cross platform reasons.If anyone knows how to give AOL customers the option to bypass the AOL proxy server I would love to know.Sorry again for a topic that is on the fringe of WebCat issues. I will try to resolve this quickly.Kevin Mueller ArtOnCall.com
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Grant wrote ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------>The normally speedy site is painfully slow via AOL and when the time >comes for delivery/download of the product, (the site sells high >resolution digital artwork) the download just stops before the entire >image is downloaded to disk.Last I checked, AOL still uses a proxy server to get at your site (supposedly to speed things >up), but there may be an option for your visitors to switch to 'direct' connection -- just a guess.AOL also does that weird picture compression before it hands the picture off to the client...perhaps you can provide the picture as some filetype (like ZIP or SIT) that AOL won't think is a picture. And also, you could look for AOL in the
[browsername] to help you display different text on your site automatically (perhaps an explanation and apology for AOL's slowness)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thanks Grant, I have now put in a page that directs AOL users to enter through a page that tells them to turn off the Use Compressed Images in their AOL prefs. This makes all of the images in the site much clearer and the site overall is a little faster but the downloads still crap out.I would rather not supply the images as anything other than .jpg for cross platform reasons.If anyone knows how to give AOL customers the option to bypass the AOL proxy server I would love to know.Sorry again for a topic that is on the fringe of WebCat issues. I will try to resolve this quickly.Kevin Mueller ArtOnCall.com
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