Found this problem.. which is quite serious as least for me as a poor webmaster wannabe.
In the step 1 of the URL submission, it was generally a good idea to fetch some info from the destination link first and try to insert some info for the submitter, I was even thinking of adding features to auto filling in Title and tags (from Meta keywords).
Then eventually when I try to submit a MP3 under my Podcast category, at first it just seems taking forever to respond and forward to step 2, I was puzzled and thinking it might be my host problem. Re-submit a couple of time and finally recall that it is the URL prefetch things! Checking on my webhost account… there was more than 100MB of downloads bandwidth wasted. :'(
Quick fixes are either:
1. Disable URL Prefetch thingy totally. ( I hope their submit without URL will be release soon)
2. Set an upper limit of bytes Pligg can download (which I'm doing now).
in your libs/link.php
function HTTPRequst->DownloadToString()
modify the while loop to
$read_count = 0;
/* modified read max 10k */
while(is_resource($this->_fp) && $this->_fp && !feof($this->_fp) && $read_count++ < 10)
So if you are running on budget webhost like me, you better fix your Pligg.
