[OpenAFS] Web Browsers

[Ray Link]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Michael Robokoff wrote:

> noticed the cache usage did not increase much. AFS using 77294 of the
> cache's available 1000000 1K byte blocks. Then I noticed network
> activity continued when the browsers were hung. So I waited several minutes
> and the download eventually completed.

You mentioned that you tried Netscape, Mozilla and Konqueror, so I shall
assume you are running on some variant UNIX.  As far as I know, all of
these browsers download files to a temporary location (/tmp or the like)
and then copy the fully-downloaded file to the destination directory
you specified.  What is most likely happening is (this happens to me
all the time) the download progress meter only shows 99%, and then
the browser is hanging as it copies the completely downloaded file into
AFS space.

Easy way to check:  Switch to an xterm and try to ls the file while the
browser is hung.  Odds are, it doesn't yet exist yet, because the move
is still ocurring.

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