Re: America Online Issues
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
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 yourvisitors to switch to 'direct' connection -- just a guess.AOL also does that weird picture compression before it hands the pictureoff 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, youcould look for AOL in the [BrowserName] to help you display differenttext on your site automatically (perhaps an explanation and apology forAOL's slowness)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thanks Grant,I have now put in a page that directs AOL users to enter through a pagethat tells them to turn off the Use Compressed Images in their AOLprefs. This makes all of the images in the site much clearer and thesite overall is a little faster but the downloads still crap out.I would rather not supply the images as anything other than .jpg forcross platform reasons.If anyone knows how to give AOL customers the option to bypass the AOLproxy server I would love to know.Sorry again for a topic that is on the fringe of WebCat issues. I willtry to resolve this quickly.Kevin MuellerArtOnCall.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 yourvisitors to switch to 'direct' connection -- just a guess.AOL also does that weird picture compression before it hands the pictureoff 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, youcould look for AOL in the
[browsername] to help you display differenttext on your site automatically (perhaps an explanation and apology forAOL's slowness)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thanks Grant,I have now put in a page that directs AOL users to enter through a pagethat tells them to turn off the Use Compressed Images in their AOLprefs. This makes all of the images in the site much clearer and thesite overall is a little faster but the downloads still crap out.I would rather not supply the images as anything other than .jpg forcross platform reasons.If anyone knows how to give AOL customers the option to bypass the AOLproxy server I would love to know.Sorry again for a topic that is on the fringe of WebCat issues. I willtry to resolve this quickly.Kevin MuellerArtOnCall.com
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