Maximum execution time error message

[thoughton]

I'm on a 56k modem (remember them? ) and whenever I read a topic that has 'full' pages (i.e. if there are 2 pages, page 1 is 'full') the messages get cut off about 3/4 of the way down and I get this message:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in e:\vcdhelp\www\forum\templates\subSilver\cache\vie wtopic_body.tpl.php on line 43

Us poor old country folk who cannot get broadband are limited to 56k. A forum page that is 'full' often takes more than 30seconds to load at that speed. Any chance of increasing the 'maximum execution time'? Or is there a way for me to set some preference to make fewer posts appear on each page?

Thanks in advance,

[Baldrick]

Could you check this page
https://www.videohelp.com/test.php

and post here what it says.

[thoughton]

Thanks for the quick reply! The page says this:

HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/85.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.5

[Baldrick]

Strange that your webbrowser doesn't support gzip....hmmm..do you have any other webbrowser to test with?

It should say "HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip" if it supports gzip. If your browser supports it you will get a compressed version of the page, about 5-10 times smaller file size.

[tgpo]

Mac IE:

HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.21; Mac_PowerPC)

[Baldrick]

So it is all MAC users that eating all bandwidth....

Why doesn't your browsers support gzip?

[tgpo]

OmniWeb:
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, identity
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/85 (KHTML, like Gecko) OmniWeb/v496


Opera:
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: deflate, gzip, x-gzip, identity, *;q=0
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC) Opera 6.0 [en]


Mozilla Firebird:
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031026 Firebird/0.7

Camino:
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20030306 Camino/0.7

iCab:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; iCab 2.9.7; Macintosh; U; PPC; Mac OS X)

Netscape:
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1

[tgpo]

So does that mean that Opera is the best browser for the forum on the mac?

[stiltman]

So it is all MAC users that eating all bandwidth....

Why doesn't your browsers support gzip?

I say ban all MAC until they switch to using a less bandwidth hogging system :P

I knew I hated MACs for a reason...Know wonder the internet is so slow

[tgpo]

I knew I hated MACs for a reason...Know wonder the internet is so slow

No, no. The internet is slow because all of those Windows servers are busy crashing and being hacked that no visitors can get on the servers :P

[Baldrick]

thoughton: I increased the timeout to 60 seconds. But try use a browser with gzip support and it should download the sites faster.

[thoughton]

Thanks a lot Balders

I should call myself the Black Vegetable! *cackle*

Thanks also tgpo for posting all those results. I guess I'll try out some of those gecko browsers - last time I did any comparison Safari kicked all their butts (but apparently not in this case )

[tgpo]

Thanks also tgpo for posting all those results. I guess I'll try out some of those gecko browsers - last time I did any comparison Safari kicked all their butts (but apparently not in this case )

It seems that Opera supports the most features.

[tgpo]

Wow. I just tried using Opera for an extened amount of time. What a crappy browser.

[Faustus]

Wow. I just tried using Opera for an extened amount of time. What a crappy browser.

There are many who would flame you endlessly for that comment, I however tend to agree, it would be ok if it was Free... but they actually want you to pay for it. Yet just because it has features it has alot of fans.

[tgpo]

The reviews on macupdate.com say that the linux and winblows versions are good, but the mac version just isn't up to standard.

[Craig Tucker]

The reviews on macupdate.com say that the linux and winblows versions are good, but the mac version just isn't up to standard.

The Symbian version for my P800 is excellent.

[thoughton]

Wow. I just tried using Opera for an extened amount of time. What a crappy browser.

Hear hear!

As i recall I hated Opera and Ominweb last time I checked, but Firebird and Camino were OK. Mozilla just crashed too much. I also cant handle the 'unfinished beta software' feel most of them had.

[Craig Tucker]

I am using IE 6 at work on Win2000 and i dont get any notification of gzip support either.

HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

I will try my PC at home when I finish work.

[Baldrick]

I am using IE 6 at work on Win2000 and i dont get any notification of gzip support either.

HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

I will try my PC at home when I finish work.

Are you using any proxy server settings in IE?

[Craig Tucker]

At work, Yes

[Baldrick]

At work, Yes

Then it is normal, gzipping doesn't work with all proxy servers.

[Craig Tucker]

At home

HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

No proxy server here

[Baldrick]

At home

HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

No proxy server here

Not normal.

[stiltman]

HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

[Baldrick]

Have you enabled HTTP 1.1 in internet expplorer -> tools -> internet options ?

[Craig Tucker]

Yes

[Craig Tucker]

Any other ideas Balders because the forum is getting slower and slower for me.

[Craig Tucker]

Just installed Mozilla firebird

HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Much quicker page loading times.

Would like to know why my version of explorer did not support gzip though.

[Baldrick]

Would like to know why my version of explorer did not support gzip though.

Me too.