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ael comments on "Page loading slowdown due to proxy?" (14627)

ael — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:08:44 -0700

An unexpected data point - the following Stackoverflow page also exhibits the lengthy
load time behaviour, despite there being no MathJax involved as far as I can
tell.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4967629/insert-external-page-html-into-a-
page-html

In this case, after the long delay the syntax highlighting is displayed.

So it seems this is likely to be a Stackexchange rather than a Mathjax issue? (Does Stackexchange have a bug tracker?)

ael comments on "Page loading slowdown due to proxy?" (14445)

ael — Wed, 11 May 2011 03:47:47 -0700

After some further investigation by shogun70, it is still unclear what the cause of this problem is, though it seems restricted to Firefox and may be related to the proxy blocking .otf files.

Should anyone else experience similar problems, it would be helpful if they could leave a note here, to discover whether this is a widespread issue.

shogun70 comments on "Page loading slowdown due to proxy?" (14429)

shogun70 — Sat, 07 May 2011 06:15:06 -0700

@ael,

I'm involved in the MathJax project and would like to look into this problem.

It sounds like this is a generic problem with MathJax, and not MO. Could you raise this issue at the MathJax users group and it can be discussed there.
http://groups.google.com/group/mathjax-users

If you prefer this to be confidential then email me on my gmail account (user_id: shogun70)

Useful info to start with would be:
- browser / version / any add-ons / operating-system
- type of proxy you use - HTTP or SOCKS
- which sites do you experience the issue with (MO, Math.SX, mathjax.org, etc)

Also, do you have access to the command-line utility "curl"?

regards,
Sean

ael comments on "Page loading slowdown due to proxy?" (14422)

ael — Fri, 06 May 2011 09:51:25 -0700

I've just noticed math.stackexchange.com has the same problem.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Page loading slowdown due to proxy?" (14414)

Anton Geraschenko — Thu, 05 May 2011 14:02:47 -0700

I think lining up a donation to MathJax is a good idea, but we probably can't easily line up the annual $20000+ that SE donated.

Qiaochu Yuan comments on "Page loading slowdown due to proxy?" (14410)

Qiaochu Yuan — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:29:14 -0700

@Scott: StackExchange recently became a MathJax partner, so if we're planning on sticking with MathJax in the long term (no idea if we are) we might want to follow suit.

Scott Morrison comments on "Page loading slowdown due to proxy?" (14409)

Scott Morrison — Thu, 05 May 2011 10:31:02 -0700

Interesting. We load the MathJax libraries from my personal Dreamhost web hosting. We could switch to using the "official" MathJax hosting of the libraries, although my understanding is that since we're a major user we probably should line up a donation before doing so. This is probably a decent idea anyway...

ael comments on "Page loading slowdown due to proxy?" (14408)

ael — Thu, 05 May 2011 09:59:53 -0700

The MathJax components of MO pages take forever to load when I access the web via the university proxy server, while without the proxy it is pretty much instant. Has anybody else experienced this problem? Is there anything I (or maybe the local IT admins) can do to fix it?

NB this does not seem to be a Mathjax issue as other Mathjax sites do not have this problem.