Re: iMac Internet Connect and Moz hang while ISP cuts me off

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:46:11PM -0500, Ken Seggerman wrote:
> 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.

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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