[lug] wget, Firefox, connections

[Eric Johnson]

Bill,

I'd try to update wget if you can, not that I know anything about how to do
that.  Or, if it's only vaguely of interest at this point, trying additional
machines with different versions of wget would be interesting some time,
both on the same network connection and on others.  Maybe it'd illuminate
where the problem is.

Side question for anyone:  I've been noticing that Firefox on FC4 at home is
very slow at retrieving objects coming from domains that begin with anything
other than "www."  I suspect the problem is in making the connection, since
when data finally flows, it flows quickly.  IE on Windoze seems to be fine,
so I don't think it's a QoS issue with the ISP.

Has anyone had a similar experience, or have ideas on what one might do
about it?

-- Eric Johnson
 
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Eric Johnson
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-----Original Message-----
The place it's hanging on is the line:

Connecting to catalog.mso.census.gov[148.129.75.139]:443...


Which occurs on one machine but not on the others. For now I've got 
around the problem by trying the same wget command on another machine, 
and it works perfectly. The only thing I can guess at now is that on the 
machine where it doesn't work, wget is an old version -- 1.8 or so, 
where on the machines where it succeeds the version is 1.10. But I'm 
still curious why in that one case it wanted to access a secure server 
for something , but not in the other cases. The other machines never 
access this secure connection (or at least never log it) but this 
machine does for some reason. And I used the exact same wget 
command-line switches in all cases.

However, the problem is no longer a critical one for me now... just a 
head scratcher...