solved! Re: [Xitami] reply from localhost *sometimes* slow?

[Thomas J. Hruska]

At 03:44 PM 7/28/01 -0600, you wrote:
>> At 10:12 AM 7/26/01 -0600, you wrote:
>> >something I've been wondering for a while.... Sometimes when I request a
>> >page that is on my //localhost, the browser takes several (2-10) seconds
>> >to get a reply, but other times it is really speedy.
>---
>
>Craig wrote:
>> Look for a file called HOSTS on your system, under Win98 it should be
located
>> in your C:\Windows\system32 directory (I think, its been a while for me
under
>> Win9x). There is a sample file called HOSTS.SAM that is an example file for
>> HOSTS if you don't have it there already. 
>> At any rate, add the following line to your HOSTS file:
>> 127.0.0.1       localhost
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>good idea, but the line already was in there... maybe added by the
>xitami install?

That file is extracted from the Windows archives (CAB files) when you first
install Windows.  Xitami doesn't touch it.

>"Thomas J. Hruska" wrote:
>> Are you typing '//localhost' into the browser?  If so, then you should note
>> that it might be looking for a machine called 'localhost' using the NetBIOS
>> protocol (hence the really long delays).  Try the fully qualified
>> 'http://localhost/' URL instead.  Also try 'http://127.0.0.1/' as well.
>=================
>you're the winner Thomas... I checked my bookmarks, and they were indeed
>entered as localhost/whatever. I changed to http://localhost/whatever,
>and it seems to blaze right thru every time.

What did I win?  ;)


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