Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!

Xander ,'Chosen'


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Steph L. - Jun 19, 2004 2:23:53 pm PDT #7987 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Is the Bitch thread broken? Every time I click on the link, I get the page header, but nothing else.


Jessica - Jun 19, 2004 2:25:25 pm PDT #7988 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Was there a link in your last post, Tep? I noticed it ended with a bunch of asterisks, and the "Read New | Message Center | etc" row was missing from the page.


Steph L. - Jun 19, 2004 2:26:33 pm PDT #7989 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

It may be a screwy tag.


amych - Jun 19, 2004 2:26:53 pm PDT #7990 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

fixed now, tep. There was a missing quotation mark in a tag. (And Go Team Firefox for displaying the page anyway instead of breaking it altogether!)


Deena - Jun 21, 2004 8:52:09 am PDT #7991 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Posting in bitches just now, got a 404, then the where are the developer's error after refreshing and got it again after refreshing again.


tommyrot - Jun 21, 2004 9:36:30 am PDT #7992 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I'm just wondering outloud here, but wouldn't a 404 error indicate a problem with Apache (the web server) rather than with the database or the php code?


§ ita § - Jun 21, 2004 9:39:00 am PDT #7993 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yup. I don't know where to being with an intermittent one of those.


tommyrot - Jun 21, 2004 9:48:00 am PDT #7994 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

What, specificly, causes a 404? Is it that the browser makes a page request and the server never replies? Or is it before that, when a DNS server says the server you're trying to connect to doesn't exist?

I'm thinking it's the latter. If the page request goes to the server and the server never replies, you just get a timeout, right?


§ ita § - Jun 21, 2004 10:43:48 am PDT #7995 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

404s are returned by the web server, if you ask for a page that it doesn't think exists.

The page you get if the domain doesn't exist is dependent on the browser. Opera will tell me there's a network problem. I'm not sure what message you get if the domain exists but doesn't have a web server at that port.


tommyrot - Jun 21, 2004 11:02:51 am PDT #7996 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

404s are returned by the web server, if you ask for a page that it doesn't think exists.

Oh. Of course. Don't know what I was thinking there.

Is every page request on the server logged? If so, and if you knew the time the error occured and the IP address of the user, could you look at the log to find out exactly what the browser was asking for?

My guess is that this isn't the problem--that the browser requests that result in a 404 are in fact correct, but if it's easy to do then we could rule out client-side wonkiness.