Re: no coordinates in my starbucks piggy bank results

From: David Huynh <dfhuynh_at_csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 02:17:27 -0500

I don't know why it gets stuck. Is there any error in the JavaScript
console or the Java console?

David


Prokopp, Christian wrote:

> No idea..it might take me 5 minutes to get through a craigslist page
> but eventually it works. Maybe David or Stefano have an idea?!
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
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> *From:* Susan Hardin [mailto:shardin_at_umich.edu]
> *Sent:* Saturday, 14 January 2006 1:47 AM
> *To:* general_at_simile.mit.edu
> *Subject:* Re: no coordinates in my starbucks piggy bank results
>
> I understand how this should work, but for some reason I never get
> past the point of being told that additional pages are being loaded. I
> choose 0 or 1 for additional pages, to minimize the amount of time it
> would take to get results, and still my browser just churns and
> churns. That window never goes away, and no results appear. Since it
> never gets past this point, it never steps into the "waiting for
> Google coordinates" popup window. This occurs on all machines I've
> tested. Seems that it is in a loop or something, or not finding the
> additional pages.
>
> Thinking that my home networks (ISDN and Satellite) were too slow, I
> tried it several times on the university's high speed network this
> morning. Same results.
>
> I experimented with creating a couple of scrapers using solvent last
> night for single pages and things went very well. However, any
> attempts at working with multiple pages seemed to stall out or hang. I
> would have to restart Firefox to be able stop the current process so I
> could retry running the scraper (using solvent).
>
> My primary machine is a Mac, running 10.3.9, the other Mac is running
> 10.4.x(?) and both machines are running Firefox 1.5. The other machine
> is a PC, running XP and Firefox 1.5. All are running Piggy Bank 2.1.2
> (Jan 11th build).
>
> Any ideas on what's happening?
>
> Susan
>
> Susan Hardin
> Webmaster - sakaiproject.org
> shardin_at_umich.edu
>
Received on Thu Jan 19 2006 - 07:19:02 EST