EBay UK search hanging

From: Geoffrey Thomas <geoffreythomas_at_onetel.net.uk>
Date: Fri Jun 18 16:18:10 2004

Ebay does have some illegal cookies from time to time where the site domain
address and the cookie domain address don't match. Opera ( under win'98 )
tells me this quite often. Sounds as though this may be at the root of your
problem.

Geoff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:08 PM
Subject: OT: EBay UK search hanging


>
> Knowing that there's a few EBay users on the list who also know how to
> fix modern software... :-)
>
> On the rare occasions that I do actually bother to search EBay for
> anything classic computer related I quite often find that hitting the
> search submit button just hangs, with the browser (Opera under Linux in
> my case) sitting there saying "Waiting for DNS confirmation of cookie
> domain(s)".
>
> If I open another browser window at this point and then try and go to
> any other site it'll just sit there with the same message.
>
> If I close the browser and come back later it's fine. Very frustrating.
> Anyone else see this or know what causes it? I've *only* seen it happen
> trying to do an Ebay search, never with any other website - but it's
> been this way for months.
>
> Whilst it's hung like this in the browser I can do DNS lookups from the
> shell fine, so it's not a DNS problem or a local configuration problem.
> I assume Opera happens to use shared DNS lookup code and for some reason
> something to do with EBay's search *sometimes* makes it hang.
>
> Presumably others might be able to shed some light on this, or at least
> confim / deny that they've seen similar problems with EBay UK from
> different platforms and browsers...
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
Received on Fri Jun 18 2004 - 16:18:10 BST