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Posted by: Necro Tech Feb 22 2005, 03:22 AM

From my home, work and sisters house I can't access dumpshock by going to www.dumpshock.com anymore. I get an error message saying IE can't download / from dumpshock.com. I can get in the back way by going directly to a thread but not the front door since last friday. Is it just me?

Thanks for your time.

Todd Songer.

Posted by: Sabosect Feb 22 2005, 05:23 AM

I've also had that problem for a few days.

Posted by: ThatPaolo Feb 22 2005, 06:42 AM

It is not working on this side of the land too

Posted by: Neuron Basher Feb 22 2005, 01:27 PM

This is very strange -- I didn't notice it because I use Firefox and it's not having problems with http://www.dumpshock.com/ at all. I'm looking into it right now to see what's wrong.

Posted by: Neuron Basher Feb 22 2005, 01:39 PM

Update: I reinstalled the software that we use to drive the homepage and it seems to have solved the problem for me with IE. Could you guys verify that things are working for you now?

Posted by: Kanada Ten Feb 22 2005, 02:34 PM

When I use IE and type in the front page it asks me to download a file!

Posted by: ThatPaolo Feb 22 2005, 03:57 PM

Works now.

Posted by: Neuron Basher Feb 22 2005, 04:11 PM

Kanada Ten, it shouldn't ask you for that anymore. I'm not sure what the problem was but I was able to duplicate it and reinstalling the blog software solved it for me. It could be cached on your end in it's broken state still.

If anyone is still having problems after doing a shift+refresh on the homepage, let me know.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Feb 22 2005, 09:00 PM

<shurg> No change, and on two machines even. I don't normally use IE either, so if I'm the only one don't worry. I'll download the file and let you know what's in it.

Posted by: Fortune Feb 22 2005, 09:02 PM

I use IE, and I am having no problems with it.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Feb 22 2005, 09:03 PM

Hum, looking at it in Notepad, it looks like the source code only all the ; are little boxes. When I paste it into Netscape, they all become EOBs.

Posted by: Neuron Basher Feb 22 2005, 09:44 PM

What version of IE, Kanada Ten?

Posted by: Kanada Ten Feb 22 2005, 11:17 PM

Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106IC on a Windows 98SE

Interestingly, if I choose to open the file (which has no extension) using Internet Explorer it shows the webpage - though the layout there is a bit funky.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Feb 22 2005, 11:18 PM

All the links perform the same way (meaning they ask me to download a file).

Posted by: Sabosect Feb 23 2005, 12:31 AM

Same problem as Kanada, only I can't open it because I don't have the program it was made with.

Posted by: Neuron Basher Feb 23 2005, 12:46 AM

Do you get the same problem on http://tss.dumpshock.com/ ? It's running a slightly older version of the blog software (WordPress) but I'd expect it to exhibit the same problem for you.

I can't duplicate this using a fully patched IE6 on XP SP2 (6.0.2900.2180...).

Posted by: Kanada Ten Feb 23 2005, 02:28 AM

No problems with tss in IE, though it too is not as well formatted.

QUOTE

Same problem as Kanada, only I can't open it because I don't have the program it was made with.

It should come up with an "Open using" dialog box. You can select Internet Explorer from the list. No real reason to though.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Feb 23 2005, 03:06 AM

Well, it works on the XP machines here as well. Still not on the 98's.

Posted by: Sabosect Feb 23 2005, 03:14 AM

The supplemental? No problems with it. If there are formatting problems, I haven't paid enough attention to notice.

Posted by: Tanka Feb 23 2005, 05:02 AM

QUOTE (Kanada Ten)

Well, it works on the XP machines here as well. Still not on the 98's.

Everything in Windows is patched up to the latest stuff?

Hm...

IE operates the same in 98 and XP, though there's a difference in the kernel (as XP is NT-based, NT 5.1 or 4.1 I believe. I can never remember which). I didn't think it would cause that much of a problem.

My suggestion? Not attempting to be an elitist (as I hate those), but get FireFox. If you don't like it, try Opera. IE is bad news, period.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Feb 23 2005, 05:13 AM

I use Netscape.

Posted by: Drain Brain Feb 23 2005, 11:03 AM

Having the same problems as Kanada Ten and others: prompts me to "download" the DS homepage. Opening with IE works, but not well, yadda yadda yadda... same story.

The TSS page worked, but I have no point of reference for how well, since I've not looked at it in a while.

Posted by: ThatPaolo Feb 23 2005, 03:40 PM

With plain vanilla IE on XP SP2 both sites work just fine, with no formatting problems.

Mark, I guess it was a mime type misconfig, right?

Posted by: Sabosect Feb 24 2005, 12:59 AM

QUOTE (tanka)

My suggestion? Not attempting to be an elitist (as I hate those), but get FireFox. If you don't like it, try Opera. IE is bad news, period.

Can't for certain reasons I cannot go into.

Posted by: Neuron Basher Feb 24 2005, 02:48 AM

QUOTE (ThatPaolo)

With plain vanilla IE on XP SP2 both sites work just fine, with no formatting problems.

Mark, I guess it was a mime type misconfig, right?

Not exactly a mime type misconfig, though the content-type is the root of the problem. They apparently made the content type a configuration parameter between the beta 1.5 we were running and the final version, and I didn't run the DB update script to fix the schema; I didn't realize there were any gotcha changes there since it _seemed_ to work okay.

Posted by: Neuron Basher Feb 24 2005, 02:48 AM

Could you Win98 users let me know if the problem is solved now? I think it should be.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Feb 24 2005, 02:52 AM

Yes, it is fixed. And layout looks good.

Posted by: Fortune Feb 24 2005, 02:57 AM

The lay-out is strange for me now. The side-bar type thing for links, search, and donation counter, while still apearing at the side, is located under the rest of the text at the bottom of the page.

Edit: And now it doesn't upon refreshing the page. Hmmmmm.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Feb 24 2005, 03:05 AM

That's how it was for me originally, so maybe that was a cached version?

Posted by: Fortune Feb 24 2005, 03:20 AM

That's what I figured, which is why I refreshed. The weird thing is that I don't think it was like that earlier when you were having the problem.

Posted by: Necro Tech Feb 24 2005, 07:10 PM

Fixed for me on all my machines. Thanks.