I can't read reviews on ENworld

[MerricB]

G'day folks!

For the past several months, whenever I have tried to read a review on ENworld, it has taken a very long time, many megabytes of downloading... and still no review.

There's something seriously broken.

Recently, I installed Webwasher. One of its features is to show # of cookies received, etc.

The most recent attempt (to http://www.enworld.org/reviews/recent30.php ) produced
* 13 filtered scripts
* 26 cookies received
* 13 cookies sent
* 13 connections made
* 7 Kb sent
* 224 Kb received
...and I still hadn't reached the page.

It's not because of Webwasher, because I got the same behaviour before I installed it last week.

I'm running a Windows Me machine, IE 6 (SP1), and a dial-up connection from here in Australia.

To my programmer's eyes, it looks as if there's a bug that causes an infinite loop: there's a pattern of 1 script, 2 cookies received, 1 cookie sent, for each connection made.

I can't remember what the behaviour is from work (broadband, Windows XP), but I think it works from there; I'll double check in a couple of days and post details, assuming this hasn't been cleared up by then.

Cheers!

 

[EricNoah]

in the url of the page you're trying to get to, replace www.enworld.org with enworld.cyberstreet.com and see what happens.

 

[Darkness]

I had the same problem. But the link in Merric's post works for some reason.

 

[MerricB]

That works, thanks Eric.

Now, why is it happening?

Cheers!

 

[Welverin]

Could it be some naughty program hiding on your computer?

 

[MerricB]

If it is, I'd like to know what it is.

Why is only ENworld affected by it? And only the review/guide section? (not the boards?)

I recently installed Norton Antivirus 2003 (and updated the virus list); also Webwasher and AdAware; none of which have detected anything unusual on my machine.

Cheers!

 

[Welverin]

Just an idea, seems really odd though.

 

[Blacksway]

Seems to be a problem to do with cookies. This is the most information I've ever had on the problem (which has been around for a while) and hopefully should give me some ideas for where to investigate further... thanks.

I'll let you know how I get on.

 

[Blacksway]

OK

I made a small change today to the code. Can anyone who is still having this problem have a quick go and tell me if it now working (and MerricB if you could check this with Webwasher that would be wonderful).

Thanks.

Oh, and if it doesn't work then can Webwasher tell you the names/contents of the cookies that are being set etc?

 

[Blacksad]

It works for me now