[Pmwiki-users] 3 minute Delay displaying Pmwiki pages

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:34:39AM +0000, Jennifer_Brandon at scee.net wrote:
>    Certain  machine  outside  out local network are allowed access.  They
>    can  view  normal  webpages  fine but pages in the Wiki take about 2-3
>    minutes to get delivered to my browser. It's *really really* bizarre.

Jennifer-

Yes, I have heard of this happening once before, and it turned out to be
related to the version of PHP being used and (believe it or not)
the ethernet cards being used.  The relevant posts are 

http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users_pmichaud.com/2002-August/000002.html
http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users_pmichaud.com/2002-September/000008.html
and
http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users_pmichaud.com/2002-October/000055.html

>    My  only  ideas  are that the Wiki is trying to do some sort of access
>    control  on  my  client,  which  is timing out after a few minutes and
>    letting me though anyway. I had a look at the PMWiki code briefly, but
>    couldn't find anything obvious.
>    Any advice very welcome!

AFAIR, PmWiki itself doesn't do any special access control on the client.
Perhaps the PHP interpreter is trying to do some sort of client lookup on 
PmWiki's behalf (although I have no idea what or why).  What versions of 
PHP and Apache are you running?

Pm