Re: I've had it!

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1999

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texte = I just wanted to post a follow up about my post from last Saturday. Last week Iwas having considerable problems with my web server's stability. During thislast week, I went through every site on the machine, and recoded portions ofapplicable websites to limit searching and lookups, bearing in mind thatWebCatalog locks access to an entire database while it is doing a replacefunction. This has almost entirely eliminated my server speed problems.(Three of my sites do a search/replace with 2 or 3 lookups in the same databaseper page of the entire site. My speed issues would probably not affect manyother shoppable sites.)This however, did not eliminate the server from locking up. (MacOS, WebStar3,WebCat CGI) I have finally nailed down the bug.In the most recent beta (and affecting earlier versions too) this code willcause the server to come to a complete stop:[SetHeader db=prod.db&cart=[cart]&index=1]header28=[browsername][/setheader] ***** IF the browsername is: *****Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95; AT&T WNS IE4.0)My guess here is that the & (ampersand) is causing the problem.The workaround (of course) is:[SetHeader db=prod.db&cart=[cart]&index=1]header28=[url][browsername][/url][/setheader]Although I realize the second way is the proper(?!?) way of doing it, I thinkthat perhaps WebCatalog should be coded such as it wouldn't bomb(!) if it wassimply put in as the top example.I am now looking for suggestions for ISPs that will do image collocation, approx20-30Gig/month transfer. Needs to be a T3 based provider. Thanks! Brian B. Burton BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department--------------------------------------------------------------- MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.comAre you a Web Programmer?I am today.> for the 25th time (literally!) today, web catalog ACGI for the mac has self> quit, launched itself again, and popped up a damn serial number protection> screen in front of my shoppers! on top of that, given heavy traffic (which is> supposed to be a good thing) a lousy replace function locks up the entire> database that tracks site preferences because WebCatalog doesn't seem to beable> to do record locking.> I've had over 7000 visitors today, but only 123 orders (given an average day> ratio, I should have had over 350 orders) mostly because this site slows to a> damn crawl under any real traffic.> This week, I'm installing an NT server. I give it a week, if it doesn'timprove,> I declare Webcatalog completely incapable for medium to large sites, and I'm> gone. Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: I've had it! (Brian B. Burton 1999)
Re:I've had it! (Larry Hewitt 1999)
Re: I've had it! (Kenneth Grome 1999)
Re:I've had it! (Jay Van Vark 1999)
I've had it! (Brian B. Burton 1999)

I just wanted to post a follow up about my post from last Saturday. Last week Iwas having considerable problems with my web server's stability. During thislast week, I went through every site on the machine, and recoded portions ofapplicable websites to limit searching and lookups, bearing in mind thatWebCatalog locks access to an entire database while it is doing a replacefunction. This has almost entirely eliminated my server speed problems.(Three of my sites do a search/replace with 2 or 3 lookups in the same databaseper page of the entire site. My speed issues would probably not affect manyother shoppable sites.)This however, did not eliminate the server from locking up. (MacOS, WebStar3,WebCat CGI) I have finally nailed down the bug.In the most recent beta (and affecting earlier versions too) this code willcause the server to come to a complete stop:[SetHeader db=prod.db&cart=[cart]&index=1]header28=[browsername][/setheader] ***** IF the browsername is: *****Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95; AT&T WNS IE4.0)My guess here is that the & (ampersand) is causing the problem.The workaround (of course) is:[SetHeader db=prod.db&cart=[cart]&index=1]header28=[url][browsername][/url][/setheader]Although I realize the second way is the proper(?!?) way of doing it, I thinkthat perhaps WebCatalog should be coded such as it wouldn't bomb(!) if it wassimply put in as the top example.I am now looking for suggestions for ISPs that will do image collocation, approx20-30Gig/month transfer. Needs to be a T3 based provider. Thanks! Brian B. Burton BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department--------------------------------------------------------------- MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.comAre you a Web Programmer?I am today.> for the 25th time (literally!) today, web catalog ACGI for the mac has self> quit, launched itself again, and popped up a damn serial number protection> screen in front of my shoppers! on top of that, given heavy traffic (which is> supposed to be a good thing) a lousy replace function locks up the entire> database that tracks site preferences because WebCatalog doesn't seem to beable> to do record locking.> I've had over 7000 visitors today, but only 123 orders (given an average day> ratio, I should have had over 350 orders) mostly because this site slows to a> damn crawl under any real traffic.> This week, I'm installing an NT server. I give it a week, if it doesn'timprove,> I declare Webcatalog completely incapable for medium to large sites, and I'm> gone. Brian B. Burton

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Re: I've had it!

1999

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