{"id":20736,"date":"2023-08-25T15:58:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?page_id=20736"},"modified":"2024-09-21T23:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T06:22:49","slug":"old-tips-on-websurfing-and-troubleshooting-http-servers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/hodgepodge\/nonfiction\/old-tips-on-websurfing-and-troubleshooting-http-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Old tips on websurfing and troubleshooting HTTP servers"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p class=\"pub-history-dates\">(Last minor change: 3 October 1996.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>This document contains a few tips I've picked up here and there on using\r\nvarious browsers, and on downed HTTP servers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Strategies for Successful Websurfing<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\r\n<li>When you're about to dive into a big document with lots of\r\nsubdocuments, open a new window first. Then you can go as many levels deep\r\nas you want to in the subdocuments, and when you're ready to pop back out to\r\nthe main level you don't have to press the Back button umpteen dozen times\r\n(or wait for the Go menu to load, in Netscape); you simply close the window\r\ncontaining the subdocuments.<\/li>\r\n\r\n<li>Alternatively, you can use the Go menu in Netscape, or the Window\r\nHistory list in NCSA Mosaic's Navigate menu, to jump back to any document in\r\nyour session history.<\/li>\r\n\r\n<li>If you have a slow connection, choose \"Delay Image Loading\" (or\r\ndeselect \"Auto Load Images\") from the Options menu; that'll greatly reduce\r\ntime-to-load for many pages by replacing inline graphics with little\r\nno-image-loaded icons. You can always load just the images later if you\r\ndecide you need them. This approach is no good on sites that don't provide a\r\ntext interface, but all sites <em>should<\/em> provide such an interface.<\/li>\r\n\r\n<li>On an SGI system, using Netscape Navigator, you can click a\r\nlink using the middle button to open up a new window starting with that\r\nlink.<\/li>\r\n\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<h2>Troubleshooting Tips For Broken HTTP Servers <\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>(Note: these tips may only apply to systems running the httpd that comes\r\nwith Mosaic (perhaps from CERN?). The Netsite server seems to be more\r\nrobust.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\r\n<li>If you're running the CERN(?) http server, don't edit your access log.\r\nIf you do, be sure to change the owner and group back to \"daemon\" when\r\nyou're done. Otherwise, your server may stop working because it may not\r\nhave write access to the access log.<\/li>\r\n\r\n<li>A suggestion from Ken Jones: if you're having trouble retrieving\r\ndocuments, check permissions on all your http docs and the directories\r\nthey're in. The httpd daemon needs to have read permission on everything in\r\norder to serve it.<\/li>\r\n\r\n<li>(SGI systems only) If you need to restart your httpd daemon (again\r\nprobably doesn't apply to Netsite), try doing <kbd>\/etc\/init.d\/network\r\nstart<\/kbd>. That'll shut down inetd and then restart it. The standard SGI\r\nhttpd startup script doesn't seem to adequately kill inetd, for some reason.<\/li>\r\n\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5482,"menu_order":580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20736","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20738,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20736\/revisions\/20738"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}