Recurrent timeouts on IE6 fix on 11?

[bcc]

I checked the diffs for timeouts fix for beta 11 and saw that you removed some of the code that was added earlier specifically to deal with IE problems.

Was it fixed some other way or has it been simply rolled back to sending requests over and over if the server is not responding?

In other words, is it safe to use 11 with IE6 on a bad/slow connection?

[phpfreechat]

Humm I think I removed the code too fast. It's right that if the server is down it will send a lot of request to the server. I should work on it and maybe look at "onSuccess" and "onFailure" prototype.Ajax callbacks to deals with these cases.
For the slow connexion problem, I think I have to rollback the modifications I removed.

[bcc]

If someone reported the timeout even with that code, it means not sending any more requests doesn't help.

I don't know much about the internals of the chat, but maybe it would help to have a global synchronization lock to assure that tere is only one request at a time and an internal timer that would abort the request if it's been over some specified amount of time. After that, the state of the client would be fixed up (if needed) and the new request would be sent out as if the previous one never happened.

[phpfreechat]

I don't know if it's achievable with prototype library but if it is I agree it's the good manner.

[phpfreechat]

I commited a simplified version of ajax request handling:
The periodical "/update" command will not be executed if the latest ajax request is not completed (failure or success).

Feel free to give me your feedback.

[Booner]

I am running phpfreechat-1.0-final and IE 7.x is still having time out problems. By version 11 do you both mean that there is more recent version that the one I am using?

Thanks for any insights!

- Booner

( I hate working for Bill the Borg. His pay scale sucks. )

Update Dec 21/07: The IE time out issue seems to have been rectified by adding the following to index.php's param listing; as suggested elsewhere in this forum:

$params["timeout"] = 60000;

[Moonbase]

I'm currently using 1.0-final rev. 1222 (from svn) and I still see timeouts on IE6 clients. Unfortunately, they time out but the "connect" button doesn't change so they can't reconnect without pressing F5 and reloading the chat.

I will try your suggestion of a 60s timeout.