On Oct 15, 2004, at 3:04 AM, Paul Sinnett wrote:
I've just upgraded from 1.3.3 and I now have a big reduction in performance. I checked my raw access logs and it seems that for each GET of a page it does a dozens of GET's on
title=User:Paul_Sinnett/monobook.css&action... title=User:Paul_Sinnett/monobook.js&action... title=-&action...
Is this normal? I don't have any of these pages defined but it takes about 10 seconds to make these attempts.
Can you please check the exact URLs it's using, and compare against your $wgServer and $wgScript settings?
1.3.6 has some extra checks for an Internet Explorer security hole where a URL ending in ".txt", ".html" or some other "extension" it recognizes is sometimes interpreted as HTML (with arbitrary JavaScript execution) instead of according to the set Content-Type header. If a raw page request isn't coming from the canonical URL it's thus redirected to the canonical URL.
That redirect might perhaps be failing if you have a funky setting. You might also try checking the actual headers being sent (use Mozilla and install the 'Live HTTP Headers' extension for an easy way to check.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)