By adding popups to pages, Rikai can increase the bandwidth required to load a page by a factor of ten. To combat this, HTTP 1.1 Compression is used, which results in a file-size comparable to the original. But support for HTTP 1.1 seems still to be spotty in some products, notably some proxies with Internet Explorer

      Unfortunately, your browser/proxy/OS combination does not properly support HTTP 1.1 and/or HTTP compression, and this can cost me a lot of $$.

You may try updating your browser:

Internet Explorer on Windows: Make sure the advanced option "Use http 1.1 through proxy connections" is checked.
        Microsoft accidentally left this off by default in MSIE 5.5 and maybe other versions. This is the most common problem I've seen

Mozilla: this should work on ALL platforms, plus save you a lot of security headaches. Mozilla even works with some proxies that strip off the headers needed for compression, since I always assume Mozilla can receive compressed data (and it seems very robust in this regard).

Internet Explorer on the Mac: This browser is totally hopeless in this and many other regards. Please download Mozilla.

Netscape Even the old netscape 4.7 browser supported compession on all platforms. I don't recommend it though.

      Send comments to webmaster@rikai.com. Please include as many details as possible, especially versions of proxies, browsers, and your O/S.
      Also, include the output of this link in any correspondance.
      Sorry for the inconvenience.

For the next best thing to Rikai, you may try Jim Breen's similar tool at: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?9T.

-- Todd David Rudick