Re: Do you use HOSTS file ?
From: Lars M. Hansen (badnews_at_hansenonline.net)
Date: 07/28/04
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:16:33 GMT
On 27 Jul 2004 08:03:09 -0600, Craig Macbride spoketh
>* If your local machine doesn't run a web server, the references to
>127.0.0.1 will take ages to time out, quite possibly taking longer
>than just loading the ad banners in the first place!
No it won't. That will only happen if you are running a software
firewall on your desktop that for some reason are quietly dropping
connection attempts to localhost. Normally, connections from localhost
to localhost on a closed port will result in a quick RST, not a slow
timeout.
>* If you get around this by pointing those hosts entries at the closest
>web server instead, such as your ISP's web server, that's even kludgier,
>and has to be changed whenever you change ISPs.
See above.
>* If your local machine does run a web server, pages may not display
>nicely with missing parts.
>
image tags and embedded objects should have the size of the image/object
specified, in which case it doesn't matter if the object or image is
loaded. The browser will simply set aside an area of the proper size on
the page and not load the object...
Lars M. Hansen
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