Following up to myself... On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
The problem is: I go to my site. I click on a folder. I select 'add dtml method' from the menu. I type anything for the title and ID: then I hit 'add', or 'add and edit'.
The status bar changes to
"Connect: Host www.twistedmatrix.com:8080 contacted. Watiting for reply..."
but nothing happens after that.
It turns out that my preferences.js file was corrupt -- to try to get some kind of 'control' for this experiment, i installed netscape on the server, and then ran it via a remote X session. I realized what the problem was when I got to the same point where Netscape was freezing for me, and I hit 'add' -- and at the exact point where NS usually stopped responding, a dialog came up informing me that the information that I was about to transmit might be insecure! I realized that somewhere deep within netscape's black and tortured soul, it believed that it was displaying that dialog for me, and it wasn't frozen, it was waiting for a response! So I moved preferences.js on the client machine somewhere else, and everything works flawlessly. I'm walking away from this ordeal with a newer, more profound distaste for javascript, even less respect for the 4.x series of Netscape (mozilla will rise again!), and a stable way to edit Zope. Just wanted to let you all know that Debian is NOT broken! (Well, at least not in this regard)