Shekhar said:
I connect internet on my CDMA mobile phone. Even when I am
not hitting any hyperlink and I am only reading a
downloaded page, there is a frequent call & data transfer
as if the internet explorer is checking for refresh page.
I signed out of MSN messenger to ensure that it is not the
culprit.
For the specific example you are giving do a View Source
and look for strings similar to:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL=index.html">
If you were online they could be doing this to try giving you
a different ad every 10 seconds.
If you see code such as that you can avoid its effect by ensuring
the following security option is set to Disable
Allow META REFRESH
Be aware though that this might affect the operation of many sites
which use the same type of coding to redirect from obsolete URL names
to newer ones. Some sites code these pages to give a user the
equivalent link to click on but many do not. In that case in order to find
the correct site you may have to resort to View Source to figure out what
the target site would be and effect the redirect yourself.
Now the trouble is I pay everytime a call is made & I want
to avoid that.
Then there are probably some other options you should be aware of.
First of all I hope that your connection is not established automatically
but instead gives you a prompt each time one is needed? Otherwise
you won't have as much control as you may need.
In any case you could exploit the Work Offline feature to minimize
connections. E.g. if you think that you have visited a site before
and you just want to see what you saw before you could set
Work Offline (Alt-F,W) and try the link.
Unfortunately if parts of a page are marked non-cacheable they won't
be available for offline use but sometimes you can still make use of
most it by replying correctly to a series of prompts. The amount
of connecting while you are in the Working Online state
may also depend on the cache-checking option you use.
Here is how you could minimize your connections if you think that
the page has been seen before and is available for offline use.
1. Set Work Offline (Alt-F,W) and try it then.
2. You may get "page not available offline". Before clicking on Connect
try clicking on Stay Offline. Parts of the page may still be available
which will load offline after that. This symptom often occurs with
pages which are implemented by frames. You may have to click on
Stay Offline more than once.
3. When you have to connect you can minimize the amount of checking
that IE does by setting cache-checking to Never (Alt-T,O,Alt-S,N).
Be aware thought that this will be at the expense of accuracy
so you may find yourself pressing F5 or even Ctrl-F5 often
if things seem out of date or not working correctly.
HTH
Robert Aldwinckle
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