iMac Internet Connect and Moz hang while ISP cuts me off

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Ken Seggerman - 14 Jan 2004 00:46 GMT

I am running Mozilla 1.5.1

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5.1)
Gecko/20031120

on Max OS X version 10.3.2 on a fairly recent iMac.

I connect via dialup and if I'm lucky I get a 44k connection from my
local fly-by-night TelCo/ISP.

It seems to take forever when the ISP disconnects me. If I happen to be
sending an email or posting to a newsgroup from Mozilla while being
disconnected by the ISP, the OS X Internet Connect goes into an endless
loop of unsuccessful attempts to reconnect and I have to restart.

The solution, of course, is to get DSL from a better provider. Until
then I am curious to know if this is a OS X problem or a Mozilla problem
and if there is anything I can do about it in the meantime.

Sincerely,
Ken Seggerman

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Jerry Talkington - 14 Jan 2004 02:09 GMT

> I am running Mozilla 1.5.1
>
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> then I am curious to know if this is a OS X problem or a Mozilla problem
> and if there is anything I can do about it in the meantime.

It's an OS issue. Any networking below the application layer (i.e. HTTP
for web, SMTP for mail,) is handled by the OS. Moz doesn't (and
shouldn't) care how you are connected beyond that point, so if the OS
doesn't say there is a timeout, we will keep waiting.

If reconnection is that bad, you should probably disable it (or disable
automatic connection in general if there is not an option for it.) This
should cause the OS to return errors to Moz, which will keep it from
spinning endlessly.

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iMac Internet Connect and Moz hang while ISP cuts me off