OT: URL with a predictably long load time?

[Terry Pinnell]

This is probably OT here but I'm unsure where best to enquire, so ...

I'm testing a macro that I sometimes run when I open a page in Firefox.
Its purpose is to determine whether the page has fully loaded before
further macro commands are run to do other stuff. (If I try to run those
*before* the page is loaded, unpredictable chaos can occur.)

So I need a page that will take a longish time 5-10 secs or more) to load,
so that I can see what's going on at various points in my macro. Can
anyone suggest one please? I probably have one amongst my thousands of
bookmarks but so far haven't located it.

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For the curious, my simple macro for accomplishing this was working fine
until yesterday, when I upgraded to Firefox version 4.0. The familiar red
'X' icon at the top left of its window changed when a page was loading,
providing a way to test a single pixel's colour at a fixed place within
the FF window. But this has been replaced by a sort of spinning wheel,
which is proving trickier.

 

[Stanimir Stamenkov]

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:15:36 +0100, /Terry Pinnell/:

So I need a page that will take a longish time 5-10 secs or more) to load,

http://gfxzone.planet-d.net/database/gfxzone_bitmap_list.html

Content-Length: 2822014

Not sure if that would be large enough for your connection speed.

 

[dorayme]

I need a page that will take a longish time 5-10 secs or more)

Try this one for "or more" - like maybe ten years:

<http://www.realestate.com.au/property-apartment-nsw-rosebery-4051
19197>

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

So I need a page that will take a longish time 5-10 secs or more) to
load, so that I can see what's going on at various points in my
macro.

To get _predictably_ long load time, it's probably best to create a simple
server-side script that generates a trivial HTML document, e.g. the same
line repeated, so that the number of lines is an input parameter. With a few
simple tests, you can then probably select a suitable parameter value for
your purposes.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Try this one for "or more" - like maybe ten years:

<http://www.realestate.com.au/property-apartment-nsw-rosebery-4051
19197>

Stanimir, dorayme: Thanks both, but those took only a couple of seconds
here!

 

[Terry Pinnell]

To get _predictably_ long load time, it's probably best to create a simple
server-side script that generates a trivial HTML document, e.g. the same
line repeated, so that the number of lines is an input parameter. With a few
simple tests, you can then probably select a suitable parameter value for
your purposes.

Thanks Jukka, but although I have done a little HTML coding a few years
ago, I'm a real novice. I wouldn't recognise a 'server-side script' if one
jumped out and bit me! Maybe you could get me started please? But I expect
I may then have trouble hosting it within my very limited free web space.

 

[Allodoxaphobia]

So I need a page that will take a longish time 5-10 secs or more) to load,

Not large -- just text and s l o w . . . .

http://www.jonz.net/fortune/index.php

HTH
Jonesy

 

[P E Schoen]

"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message

So I need a page that will take a longish time 5-10 secs or more)
to load,

I have a simple demo that calls a PHP script that generates an HTML page
after a 5 second delay (which can be changed in the script, and could be
made adjustable by means of a CGI variable). Here is the link.
http://www.pauleschoen.com/bgf/BGFemailDemo.htm

Just click on the button and it should take a little more than 5 seconds to
load a dynamically generated page of emails.

If you would like a longer time, or if you would like the script, please
send me an email. I could also easily add a field in the form for the number
of seconds to wait.

Paul

 

[Edward A. Falk]

Here's a quick-n-dirty one: http://www.efalk.org/cgi-bin/foo.cgi

 

[cwdjrxyz]

Try this one for "or more" - like maybe ten years:

<http://www.realestate.com.au/property-apartment-nsw-rosebery-4051
19197>

When I go to the page, some information about the real estate company
comes up very fast, but the page is still loading. After 16 seconds I
get the message "The page you requested does not exist, or is
currently unavailable." Most likely the offering is no longer
available and has been pulled. If the page were still available, I can
believe that loading time could be much longer. Many real estate pages
in the US are huge and contain many videos, high resolution photos,
etc. that can cause load time to be very excessive unless they are
constructed such that not everything downloads at once. Proper use of
server side script such as php can download selected media without
download everything else at once when a button is selected to get a
specific view.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Here's a quick-n-dirty one: http://www.efalk.org/cgi-bin/foo.cgi

That's more like it, thanks Ed! I could have almost made a coffee while
that one loaded.

P.S: I think your 'foo' should be something like 'fum'. Next verse:
'I smell the blood of an Englishman.'

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Not large -- just text and s l o w . . . .

http://www.jonz.net/fortune/index.php

HTH
Jonesy

Nice one, thank you. Now, I wonder if it's finished loading...?

 

[Terry Pinnell]

"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message


I have a simple demo that calls a PHP script that generates an HTML page
after a 5 second delay (which can be changed in the script, and could be
made adjustable by means of a CGI variable). Here is the link.
http://www.pauleschoen.com/bgf/BGFemailDemo.htm

Just click on the button and it should take a little more than 5 seconds to
load a dynamically generated page of emails.

If you would like a longer time, or if you would like the script, please
send me an email. I could also easily add a field in the form for the number
of seconds to wait.

Paul

Just about the ideal delay, thanks Paul.

 

[Allodoxaphobia]

Nice one, thank you. Now, I wonder if it's finished loading...?

Eventually.
Thanks for the kind words.

Jonesy

 

[Captain Paralytic]

This is probably OT here but I'm unsure where best to enquire, so ...

I'm testing a macro that I sometimes run when I open a page in Firefox.
Its purpose is to determine whether the page has fully loaded before
further macro commands are run to do other stuff. (If I try to run those
*before* the page is loaded, unpredictable chaos can occur.)

So I need a page that will take a longish time 5-10 secs or more) to load,
so that I can see what's going on at various points in my macro. Can
anyone suggest one please? I probably have one amongst my thousands of
bookmarks but so far haven't located it.

--------------------

For the curious, my simple macro for accomplishing this was working fine
until yesterday, when I upgraded to Firefox version 4.0. The familiar red
'X' icon at the top left of its window changed when a page was loading,
providing a way to test a single pixel's colour at a fixed place within
the FF window. But this has been replaced by a sort of spinning wheel,
which is proving trickier.

Take a look at Fiddler. You can use this to intercept the http traffic
and hold on to it for as long as you like before releasing it back to
the browser.