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FP97: Infinite Loop Creates Thousands of Temp Files

Article ID: 193835

Article Last Modified on 9/26/2001

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SYMPTOMS

When you try to publish or import a Web, thousands of .tmp files are created on the server, and the Author.exe or Inetinfo.exe process consumes all available resources, which will eventually cause the server to stop responding.

CAUSE

Two or more HTML pages include a style sheet reference to each other. This is caused by using the <BODY STYLESRC="pagename.html"> tag, which references another page from which to inherit page attributes. Using this method of style sheets causes an infinite loop when recalculating hyperlinks. For example:

Page1 includes the following tag in its HTML code: 

      <BODY STYLESRC="page2.html">
Page2 includes the following tag in its HTML code: 
      <BODY STYLESRC="page1.html">

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, make sure there are no instances of the <BODY STYLESRC=""> tag that refer to pages that point back to the referring page.

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