RE: mergent online and rewrite urls

[Jean-Marc Edwards <jedwards@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I do not have an answer as to why Mergeant is slow. But as you know we have 
provided Mergent with a test account so they can experiment with WAM (proxy re-
write method) and their answer is that they found it was slow too. They are 
offering us to change our account from an IP based on to a username/passsword 
one. This is not possible of course.

We may try to test if Mergent is faster when we use WAM but without the "proxy 
rewrite" method.

Jean-Marc

Selon "Knox,Sheryl Cormicle" <knoxs@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Our Mergent link is somewhat slow (more like 10 seconds when the original
> poster said 30 seconds). Some of our Gale stuff loads pretty slowly,
> especially the more graphical resource center homepages. Our killer slowdown
> is with the Mitchell OnDemand car repair database.
> 
> I could use some general enlightenment on how the proxy transactions work and
> what factor may be at play. Are the slowdowns due to the nature of the III
> box acting as a bottleneck and the slowness is a function of how burdened the
> server is with its overall load? Or is there something about how the proxy
> relays its requests that is not compatible (or is less compatible) with
> certain sites?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Goodyear
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:13 AM
> To: IUG INNOPAC List
> Subject: RE: mergent online and rewrite urls
> 
> 
> I posted about a similar situation a while back.  This slowness happens with
> Gale on our system.  So far we're nowhere with it.  If we leave the proxy
> out of the url it zips right through.  With the proxy, it is so slow it will
> often time out.
> 
> I'd love to hear something constructive about this.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gina Roth
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 2:06 PM
> To: IUG INNOPAC List
> Subject: Re: mergent online and rewrite urls
> 
> 
> We do not seem to have any slowness issues and we use proxy rewrite also.
> 
> Gina
> 
> 
> At 01:00 PM 7/20/2004, you wrote:
> >Innopac'ers,
> >We use the proxy rewrite method to authenticate our users and have noticed
> >lately problems with mergent online and very very very slow loading pages
> >(over 1/2 minute to just move from the basic to advanced search
> >screens...even very slow registering the log out).  I contacted mergent
> >tech support and they said they know they have a problem with rewrite and
> >it is something they "are starting to look in to".  Is anyone else having
> >this problem with mergent?  Has anyone discovered a work around?  I
> >suspect the answers to these questions are (respectively) "yes" and "no",
> >but this group is so terrific I thought it worth throwing out there.
> >Thanks.
> >Sara
> >=============================================
> >Sara B. Sluss
> >Web Site Content Manager/Business Librarian
> >University Library
> >California State University, Long Beach
> >1250 Bellflower Blvd.
> >Long Beach, CA 90840-1901
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Jean-Marc Edwards
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Concordia University Libraries
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