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Online MSDN and continuous 'access' to browser
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14/06/2003 14:03:25
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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14/06/2003 13:29:08
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Forum:
Windows
Category:
Computing in general
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00800134
Message ID:
00800138
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>I've noticed recently that when I'm accessing a MSDN ONLINE article the little area at the bottom that shows "page load completion status" (I thought) periodically and frequently "restarts". By restart I mean it is blank, then starts showing green boxes moving rightward, fills up with green and blanks then starts all over again.
>While all this goes on I've got the full page of interest and am only reading it.
>
>Why would it be doing this and is there some way to stop it??? It give me the creeps and makes me feel that stuff is being accessed on my PC.
>
>Thanks

This reminds me of the UT message area, which checks every 5 minutes if there are new messages. It might be something similar, or it might not be.

It should be relatively easy to check the source-code of the HTML page. Perhaps there is a timer to reload after a certain amount of seconds or minutes.

You might also want to use a program that checks network traffic, to see what information is actually being sent. I think those are called "packet sniffers".
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