We have been trying to figure out why this has been happening. I have two computers on the company network right now, my desktop and my personal laptop. Desktop works fine, the laptop had problems. WDLive loaded fine, but took forever “configuring” trying to load the wdlconfig.xml file.
I got it to work!! I went to Tools/Internet Options to the advanced tab. Scroll down to the HTTP 1.1 Settings and check the "Use HTTP 1.1 box.
The page loads fine now. To verify, I un-checked it and the config took several minutes.
I don’t know why, I just found that was the difference in the way my to computers had I.E. Configured.
Hard to tell which bit may be the answer for WDL but I wouldn’t mind betting it’s either the caching improvements or the way that the connection header now works across proxies.
I have no idea, and a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing, but I found this doing a google search. Mind you, I can vaguely grasp the idea of what is being said about persistant connections, but it might explain the problem, since the swf code was attempting to open two files, the config and the clientraw.txt file, and this opening/closing stuff may have been related. I Quote the message below…
HTTP/1.0 opens and closes a new TCP connection for each operation. Since
most Web objects are small, this practice means a high fraction of packets
are simply TCP control packets used to open and close a connection.
[...]
HTTP/1.1 leaves the TCP connection open between consecutive operations.
This technique is called "persistent connections," which both avoids the
costs of multiple opens and closes and reduces the impact of slow start.
Persistent connections are more efficient than the current practice of
running multiple short TCP connections in parallel.
There’s also a bit in the protocol where it’s talking about fast requests from browsers before it’s had a chance to send all the file content. With http 1.1 it can resume the download rather than start again. At the moment WDL rapidly and repeatedly asks for the file until it timeouts or receives it. It could be that this rapid asking for the file is what is not getting through the proxy and it’s this bit of WDL I’m going to try and change if I can.
Same here with the CPU, do you also see 100% consumption of your connection to the web? since I moved upto 1.02 this has started.
I’ve modified all the files to use the 1.02, plus mysite was replaced with my own site as well. Not sure what Julian has done on this version but it needs his attention as to what might be the cause.
Same here with the CPU, do you also see 100% consumption of your connection to the web? since I moved upto 1.02 this has started.
I’ve modified all the files to use the 1.02, plus mysite was replaced with my own site as well. Not sure what Julian has done on this version but it needs his attention as to what might be the cause.
Try it and see how long it takes to load… Mine is around 1 minute on going through a high speed cablemodem connection on my portable.
Your live display loaded almost instantly using Mozilla 1.6. IE6 took about 80 seconds to load using my laptop.
do you also see 100% consumption of your connection to the web?
I don't know what you mean here. My network icons stay lit up all that time but I am only downloading at 30 kbs. This is with a high speed connection (ADSL). The total download was about 317 KB with an average transfer rate of 32.5 kbs.
I don’t think it is an issue with what Julian has done. I think it may be Machine configuration,IE6, or OS related. On my desktop IE6 displayed your live page almost instantly.
Both my laptop and desktop are using W2K and both machines IE6 are configured the same. The desktop is a 900 MH with 512 M memory. The laptop is a 1.13 MH with 1 G memory
The desktops IE6 total download of your WDlive was about 35.3 KB with an average transfer rate of 32.1 kbs.
The mods to v1.02 were really only cosmetic and I haven’t changed anything about the way the software fundamentally works in that release. However I have been working on a new version that radically changes the way the data files load which I think may be a big improvement. It’s with a couple of ‘volunteers’ for beta testing and if it’s successful I’ll release it as soon as I can.
