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Re: Suggestions for improving Webber

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Speccie wrote:
> If nothing is
> shown under the Alert, it means the server did not send anything back.

The server sent something back, but Webber did not display it under the
alert.


> 
> If a new location is sent back with a 301 code, Webber will follow it if
> it
> can.

Webber did not follow the Location: header field in a 302 response.

> 
>> Same with 503 and other 5xx errors. Show the response text, not an alert.
> 
> If the web server has sent back an error page, it will be displayed under
> the alert. If nothing comes back, you will only see the alert.

You may wish to double-check this, because I did not see the server's
response body displayed anywhere in Webber. I'm testing against an Apache
2.4.x web server on Mac OS X, by the way.


> 
>> Webber will frequently crash into the monitor, but leaving the SHR screen
>> showing, after a bad connection or DNS resolution error dialog.
> 
> Can you give me an example of that so I can check it out?

No. But Webber doesn't crash the first time that such an error occurs, only
the second time. That is to say, the first time that an alert dialog
appears, I can click OK and continue using Webber as normal. If that alert
dialog appears again in the same session, then the IIgs crashes.

> 
> Even though a page may appear to be plain text, it is being displayed ina
> TextEdit Handle, and could hold invisible commands.

Why not filter them? Users expect a web browser to show plain text files.

> 
>> Save as dialog: encoded %20 in file name is not converted to a space.
>> Suggest you decode % entities in file names.
> 
> There are limits on what I wish to do with Webber, so am not going to
> process what appears to be a plain text page when saving to disk.

I'm talking about the file name that is presented in the Save as dialog.

It could be an HTML page or any other file served from the web server with
encoded spaces or other characters in the filename/URL.

> 
> Webber was released last December. I appreciate you may not have had the
> time then to look at it before now, but these comments would have been
> more
> useful to me then. 

Then why didn't you invite me to beta test in December?

> 
> I suggest that perhaps you yourself build a better web browser than
> Webber,
> one that does not have the problems you have found. 

I agree: if Webber were my project, I would incorporate all the comments and
recommendations for improvement which I gave.

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]DF$
The New Apple II User's Guide:
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Suggestions for improving Webber D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2021-10-04 06:17 +0000
  Re: Suggestions for improving Webber Speccie <someone@somewhere.com> - 2021-10-04 08:23 +0100
    Re: Suggestions for improving Webber D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2021-10-04 23:52 +0000
      Re: Suggestions for improving Webber Speccie <someone@somewhere.com> - 2021-10-05 07:39 +0100
        Re: Suggestions for improving Webber D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2021-10-06 03:16 +0000

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