Yes, I know you are having problems accessing the front page. No, I do not know why, and neither do the web folks, who have been looking into it since last night.
I beg of you, stop emailing me. We are on it like ugly on an ape and will do the best we can to fix it soon.
Bad Horse's Filly
If it helps, there are a couple of local pages I tried to access this morning and had the same problem. Maybe the interwebs are broken? Did Tunch sit on them?
cleek
works fine for me!
Joshua Norton
Could you also do something about the way the icons on my tool bar keep changing and moving over to the right whenever I add a new one? It’s very annoying.
/I keed. I keed.
Michael
Hey, so long as you’re not passing me any hoax Antivirus Soft malware, like I suspect I may have gotten from the GOS, you’re doing good.
OT, I’m wondering about how long McDonnell voters (not to mention those who put him up to give the “State of the Confederacy” speech) are going to be happy when he undoubtedly signs this signature piece of legislation:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020903796.html?sid=ST2010021000012
“Hee Haw” was supposed to be only a short comedy variety show, not a template for a political ideology.
Mark S.
Huh, I was having problems last week but this week has been fine.
I probably just jinxed myself.
Jude
I can’t believe you people would be so insensitive to the feelings of apes.
I, for one, demand that Rahm Emanuel be fired for this slight.
Daddy Biggs
“This is, after all, what we still somehow have the nerve to call America.”
Another instant classic.
beltane
If you post a comment, the site works fine. The same thing happened here last year. The moral of the story is that you’re all better off posting a comment than lurking.
akaoni
If they can’t see the front page, how can they know not to email you?
Punchy
Sumpin else to note: the site is the suxxor when loading on certain mobile devices (i.e., Palm Centro). All the cool blogs load immediately, so it aint a Sprint thing; only when I attempt to fire up this PITA do I hafta do about 7 things to get this beeyotch to fully come up.
MobiusKlein
Oddly, I see it fine from my browser, but when I load on my cell, I get blankness.
Eh.
Comrade Dread
God bless the internet.
I love how I can carefully deconstruct a wingnut’s talking point using reason and logic and they reply with another stupid talking point completely ignoring how I just destroyed their last one.
It’s like arguing with a bot only programmed to respond in non-sequiturs
beltane
@Michael: Isn’t God supposed to be omnipotent and omniscient? Why does he need a frigging microchip to identify people.
The thing that bugs me the most about these fundies is that the entity they worship is so small, so stupid, and so nasty. Sort of like what they see when they look in the mirror.
jeffreyw
Yay! Today’s hawk pic.
And I gathered all the hawk pics in one set today.
jeffreyw
Damn you word press!
Today’s hawk pic.
ruemara
There goes my reason for posting.
Keith
“Pleez to send $25,000 to ficks our site. Thx!”
Ash Can
@Michael: Oh, God. When I see this, I genuinely worry about this nation’s future. This nation might truly be too fucking stupid to survive.
spudvol
I can’t access this site at all!!!11!1
Mark S.
John Mayer, as well as being a terrible songwriter (“Your body is a wonderland,” sorry I just puked) is also a dick, a white supremacist dick:
jeffreyw
In 2 comments seeing as how WP eats them up if they have more than 1 link.
I made a set of hawks on my Flickr stream here.
cheryl
I hear via DailyKos that once I post a comment, I can access the site. So here goes…
Ash Can
@jeffreyw: I just love your photos!
Chat Noir
I haven’t had any problems reading or commenting on Balloon Juice. Would like to see more Tunch/Lily/Smudge/Charlie/Max/other pets howevah. Just sayin’.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Hey look, Lenny Dykstra is back!
If you want to have some fun go to Lenny’s website and troll his Contact link. I’d put good money that Lenny is the only one working there so there’s a good chance that he will read the messages himself.
flukebucket
It may be meaningless in the grand scheme of thing but I have not been able to get Balloon-Juice to update on my Kindle either.
slag
For the record, I do not think apes are ugly. But I will still gladly assume that you are on it. Not that I care. Google Reader!
jeffreyw
@Ash Can: It is obvious you have excellent taste, my good friend. LOL
Maude
No probs using K-Meleon
puakev
This comment is just so I can view the front page again. Hope this works.
Geordie3
Several people have said that posting fixes the access problem, so I thought I would try it.
John, I hope that you are feeling better.
Michael
@beltane
Exactly – as an divine entity, It is nonsensically vicious.
I think the best portrayal of this was “The Rapture”, a movie that had Mimi Rogers in it about 15 years ago.
It did a pretty good job of presenting the End of Days in true American fundie form, making everything as petty, cheesy and pointless as a Sunday goober extravaganza at a Southern church.
James Hare
@Michael:
I’ve been thinking about leaving Virginia for some time. As the Commonwealth sinks deeper and deeper into madness, those plans get far more involved. I initially thought Obama’s election was a sign that our country was turning around. After the last year, it’s hard to believe we ever will.
Woodbuster
@Michael:
Hah! Consider this stolen and plagarized profusely!
At least this one wasn’t in South Carolina, thank Jeebus.
bystander
Hmmm. The last time I had trouble like this with a site, I was advised to try clearing my cache. So I cleared the works; history, active logons, cookies, the whole enchilada. That fixed the problem right up.
I didn’t have trouble accessing Balloon Juice until I cleared the works again last night. Not sure what I messed up in the process. I came in through Google’s cache, and have been advancing forward with the -> and <- arrows at the top of the page.
Will take the advice of the person who said, “try posting a comment.” Tally Ho!
ishkabibble
let’s see if posting a comment really does work.
bystander
Bingo! Comment posted. Bookmarked link restored.
Thanks for the tip beltane.
t jasper parnell
@Michael: Thanks to the good Lord for Virginny; lestwise the antichrist and obama, who are actually the same thingy, would be putting the microchips under our skin and keeping all the microdip for their own selves. Also.
licensed to kill time
I’ve had no problems at all (FF 3.6). I access BJ through the RSS feed, maybe folks having trouble could try that?
Geordie3
Well, posting something worked, and I can access the site again.
Is this a subtle ploy to bring out the lurkers…?
jeffreyw
@bystander: Also look at the properties on your BJ bookmark, be sure the url ends with the slash: *.com/
Michael
@Ash Can
Why do you hate Sweet Baby Jesus and the Troops?
The only people expressing such Communistical Socialist Kenyan Marxist Usurper thoughts like that are dastardly evil librul Democrats who want them goddamned negro and ay-rab terr’ists to win.
frogspawn
test post to see if front page comes back
Michael
@Ash Can
Why do you hate Sweet Baby Jesus and the Troops?
The only people expressing such Communistical Soc!alist Kenyan Marxist Usurper thoughts like that are dastardly evil librul Democrats who want them goddamned negro and ay-rab terr’ists to win.
twiffer
@Michael: what the fuck? why can’t people just think it is a bad idea for someone to be involutarily implanted with anything? i don’t need religion to tell me that no one should be able to implant microchips in me without my permission.
also, how is this not already covered by existing laws?
aside: no tech issues for me, running IE7 on XP Pro SP2 (work machine)
Ash Can
I’m liking the Boeing ad I saw in the margin a minute ago, about “taking a stand for real American tankers.” There’s a “fuck you” in Richard Shelby’s face.
Terrapin Station84
Testing.
Ash Can
@Michael: Thank you. Those quotes definitely made me feel better. :)
twiffer
@Comrade Dread: granted, it probably is a bot…
Marshwiggle
I have found that this works for me if I enter it by hand:
https://balloon-juice.com/?p=0
“Desperately wanting to read Balloon Juice since a few days ago when the link broke.” :-)
Morbo
I’m having no problems, except that the icon chosen by Opera is the Rumproast icon instead of Balloon Juice’s. Stick that in the bug report.
BleebleDeebleDorp
HOPE this comment will CHANGE front page problem!
sacrablue
Sorry John,
I emailed you before I found a way to reach this open thread.
schrodinger's cat
We need a Tunch photo or better still a Tunch action cam to fix this problem. Tunch is mad and he broke the intertoobz.
Kit Smith
Sorry, didn’t mean to add to the Chinese water torture. Front page is working just fine from work today.
Sentient Puddle
I’m doing the “never had a loading problem” dance right now. In my cube. And people are looking at me funny.
But random, non-helpful advice for fixing this bug. People are mentioning that commenting fixes it. I started commenting a few months back when there was another bug that commenting fixed. Those who didn’t comment didn’t have a cookie, and those without cookies did not properly load the CSS. So…a cookie problem, maybe?
t jasper parnell
@Mark S.: I agree the guy is a mega dick but who the hell is he?
racrecir
This also works:
https://balloon-juice.com/?paged=1
licensed to kill time
This is going to be another cookie monster thread? That was fun last time. Lurkers, come out come out wherever you are!
Zen Koan
posting to see if it helps with the Front Page
hipster
hope writting a comment helps!
demo woman
@Michael: GA just passed that law last week. Maybe the whacko that introduced the bill here has a cousins in VA.
sacrablue
@sacrablue: oh crap, I didn’t have cookies turned on.
t jasper parnell
@demo woman: Yes he does have cousins there and they’re his wives.
Nate
Comment!
Kitty
Writing a comment in hopes of getting bookmark back.
wrb
@Michael:
It has long puzzled me why with all the gods out there they pick that one. Compared with, say, his contemporaries over on Olympus he’s small, mean and nasty.
I prefer Offler because he’s lazy and so less likely to mess with you- and you do get the sausages- but still, there are a lot of other appealing choices
Martin
@Michael: Government is too big, and interferes too much with the free market, except when we need it to protect us from the microchip fairy!
Comrade Luke
You know, you’d think that a post titled “Rich Lowry’s Brain” would be pretty short, On the other hand, it’s Greenwald, so I guess that cancels it out.
What a great takedown.
Patrix
Posting to see the front page again.
sputnikgayle
Reading this site has kept me sane while nursing a very ill husband. Thanks.
CalD
@Jude: Right? A clear-cut case of speciesism if ever I’ve seen one. Emanuel must pay.
Michael
OT for the Open Thead, but all I can say is fuck me – some things just make me wish that there was a real Dexter out there doing justice.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/02/john_thain_symbol_of_wall_st_e.html
Anybody got this fucker’s address and a really big roll of shrink wrap?
Comrade Darkness
JOHN, there is circumstantial evidence it is a trailing slash issue.
https://balloon-juice.com is not actually valid in world wide web land, the server has to make repairs and redirect. It is possibly not doing this the way things are configured, either because of WP or because of Cpanel. Rewrite engine can fix that. Could also be the caching function. If you haven’t tried restarting the apache server, I’d try that first. Harmless and if it’s a memory issue with the caching, that should fix it (at least temporarily). Unless that’s a separate service. in which case restart THAT one instead and not apache, just for debugging purposes.
wrb
@Michael:
Damn your shit must stink if you need a $35,000 toilet to handle it
Comrade Darkness
@wrb: These were Jews picking, keep in mind. They were already biased by the biblical guy and not so interested in the titans or their upstart soap opera offspring.
Frankly, there is some evidence that the Eleusinian Mysteries were a promise of life after death, which was absent in Olympus mythology except for a few heros getting elevated to “heaven”. Christiandom has that lure, and to a tired people, that can be a pretty compelling lure, and the price of entry is set pretty low.
Comrade Darkness
@wrb: Aye, it wasn’t a toilet. It was a Commode. Which has two different meanings. One of which is way more likely for an office.
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2009/01/23/deal-journal-explainer-the-35000-commode-outrage/tab/article/
Sorry to link to the WSJ, but they are the experts on pointless furniture.
@Michael: OH, good, and NPR got it wrong too. Speaking of pointless.
atlliberal
I heard if I post a comment, I’ll be able to get back in, so here it is. I have nothing really to say, just miss your pearls of wisdom.
Michael
It is kinda fun to fuck with wiki entries, I just learned.
atlliberal
That $35,000 commode was probably an Italian inlaid wood chest or sideboard. I used to sell such things back when I was working.
Michael
And in case any of you were wondering, CIT is the commercial lender that nearly went tits up just about every day for the past year.
I’m sure that Thain will do as well there as he did at Merrill Lynch.
mesclun
Posting in hopes that this will restore me to the good graces of the internet gods.
bizzle
lookin’ for my bj cookie fix
Blue Raven
@beltane:
The Antichrist’s people do the embedding, not the agents of teh Loward.
J. Michael Neal
Back from my job interview with the pleasant young woman at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Went well, I thought, but it was mostly answering canned questions that she sends on to headquarters. Only two things I wish I had a chance to change:
1) It was probably a mistake to be honest when she asked me what accomplishment I’m proudest of. The answer I prep for that question is that I went back to school twelve years after I dropped out. (Failed out, actually, but they don’t need to know that, though they might guess from the transcript I sent them, which has about four straight quarters of nothing but Fs from 1989-90.)
However, I obviously felt a little too comfortable and off guard, because the truth slipped out before I could stop it. I told her that my greatest accomplishment is overcoming depression. Once it was out, I tried to make the best of it. Who knows.
2) I never found a place to slip in that my sympathies are with the regulators rather than the bankers, and would rather be working for the Feds. The closest I came was answering the question about where I see myself in five years. I told her that I see myself taking the exams for the promotion to Commissioner within the OCC.
Still, I feel pretty good about it. They’ll let us know who is getting a second interview sometime in mid-March. Sigh. I hate waiting.
farmette
cookie please
pattonbt
Testing the comment theory
Jorge
Just posting a comment. Nothing to see here.
RandomScreenName
Long-time lurker…crossing my fingers that this works.
Southwest of Heaven (formerly Echoes without Bunnies or Men)
test test blah blah
Carrie
Oh heck, let’s all email JC anyway…just for the hell of it.
I heard he likes that kind of thing.
tagged45
testes testes 1 2 3
Will DeLurk for Cookie
Hope to ppgaz this works !
dave
good luck
Will DeLurk for Cookie
Whoo-hoo !! I can see the front page again.
Napoleon
Testing
sher
posting for site access…..
J. Michael Neal
@tagged45:
That third one isn’t a testicle. Ur doin it rong.
Sentient Puddle
The Palin gaffes continue. Do you remember her wearing a black bracelet similar to those Livestrong bracelets in her speech on Saturday? Did you wonder what it was? answer:
Track Palin is still alive.
ACK
Need a BJ cookie. That is all.
Elie
@jeffreyw:
These are just fabulous… I love hawks and Coopers are so beautiful. One of our locals stops by to check out our feeder’s regulars from time to time… they are so beautiful!
How did you catch these shots?
locanicole (lurker)
will cookies help?
Cassidy
Not sure if you’re aware, but the site is having problems.
Elie
@J. Michael Neal:
Best to you, friend. You will do fine.
My hubby is struggling with under employment — he is just doing some part time stuff and where we live makes it hard for him – his expertise is health services research but we live in an area with somewhat limited needs for that. We moved here eight years ago on a lark to do more climbing and outdoors activities and both of us have struggled with employment, thankfully, not at the same time – so far anyway. We probably need to move but also love the area so much. Damned painful.
Anyway, keep on keeping on. My thoughts and good vibes are with you —
locanicole (lurker)
I luvs me some cookies!
Lady Sybil
Posting a comment in hopes of fixing link.
Sharl
test
arguingwithsignposts
@J. Michael Neal: Good luck, JMN. The waiting is the hardest part.
on a whim
Nothing to see here.
Mike O'Neil
sure miss being able to access the front page
Jeremy
posting for access, but I also want to compliment DougJ for his lyrical titles.
Ash Can
@Sentient Puddle: Things that make you go “eew.”
reality-based
posting for access –
poor john – first the shoulder, now this –
Felicity Simpleton
I’ll keep on trying….
Fax Paladin
Data point: It works on my Mac as a Mac, but not when the Mac’s booted in Windows mode.
jeffreyw
@Elie: Well, it comes down to luck mostly, but I am learning the camera controls a bit better. Getting a good focus is hard, but chances improve the deeper your depth of field. I boosted the minimum ISO speed to 1000 and set it for aperture priority with the aperture set fairly small, F11 or so, the higher ISO gives me a faster shutter. The rest is just waiting for a shot, and reflexes, 5 shots per second setting for a button push helps a lot. The rest is the fast auto focus and the brains in the camera. For every pic I post on Flickr there may be 20 that don’t make to cut, out of focus, subject out of frame, etc. I’m learning a lot just “pokin and hopin”. Any pros out there that want to help me out, feel free!
SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw:
Those are simply stunning. Wow.
mapaghimagsik
Will this fisk my balloon intertubes?
mapaghimagsik
How odd! It seems to. Perhaps it was the comment, or one of the six billion other things.
SiubhanDuinne
@Carrie:
I don’t think it’s so much that he likes getting emails as much as it is that he loves answering each of them, individually, no matter how long it takes him to find exactly the right turn of phrase for each of his correspondents. Not to mention attaching all those Tunch and Lily pictures. And all this with a clipped wing!
SiubhanDuinne
@Michael:
This sounds like something Demo Woman was mentioning in an earlier thread. Similar legislation is also being debated in Georgia, apparently (DW is way more up to date on this than I am). I’ll try to find that comment; maybe she provided a link.
x
testing. A GOS commenter suggested a comment here would fix the white page thingy.
Have a nice day.
mapaghimagsik
Dear John:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/jpeg, image/gif, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/x-ms-application, application/xaml+xml, application/x-ms-xbap, */*
Accept-Language: en-US
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727;
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: http://www.balloon-juice.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:19:33 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12
Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie
Cache-Control: max-age=300, must-revalidate
WP-Cache: Served supercache file from PHP
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 0
Connection: Keep-Alive
GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727;
Host: http://www.balloon-juice.com
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:21:28 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:24:47 GMT
ETag: “d068013-1019e-b2284dc0”
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=300, must-revalidate
Expires: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:26:28 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 65950
Connection: Keep-Alive
Blank Page on IE8. had same problem with firefox, but strangely enough, a post seemed to fix.
My email is linky — or not, added it to comment. Let me know if you need and I’ll email you further info from my yahoo account
Wuv,
Map
pandora
Giving posting a comment a try… I’m missing my daily doses of Balloon Juice!
oscarbob
After I logged in through the index and left a comment, I was able to access the main page.
Ash Can
OK, FWIW, I have had zero problems loading the front page on either IE8 or Firefox, as long as I do it on my laptop. When I try to access the site on our other computer, a POS dinosaur running Windows 98, I have the same access problems everyone else has, whether I use IE or Opera (no Firefox on the old computer; it can’t handle it). That doesn’t really tell me anything, but it may be useful information for someone more tech-savvy than I.
williamc
@SiubhanDuinne:
You are right. I read about it here in ATL in the new Creative Loafing out today. The great minds in the state Senate passed it overwhelmingly already (think there were only 2 no votes) think the chip has something to do with…Satan, or the Anti-christ or Libruls or somethin…
This is a test…I can haz front page?
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: I am still laughing about the “Refresh BJ” note on your hand.
mapaghimagsik
For those leaving comments on the main page. Magic!
Hey John, pass this along to your web folks
Watch this:
Without posting first:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: http://www.balloon-juice.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 2
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:31:10 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12
Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie
Cache-Control: max-age=300, must-revalidate
WP-Cache: Served supercache file from PHP
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 0
Connection: Keep-Alive
= FAIL (Blank page, with the fav.ico returning the actual page content)
However:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: http://www.balloon-juice.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Accept: image/png,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: https://balloon-juice.com/
Cookie: bb2_screener_=1265845099+161.209.206.1; __utma_a2a=1.2145241236.1265838274.1265844797.1265845078.14; comment_author_8eb61f2233b3e728f3ec7ea20244d052=mapaghimagsik; comment_author_email_8eb61f2233b3e728f3ec7ea20244d052=***redacted***; comment_author_url_8eb61f2233b3e728f3ec7ea20244d052=http%3A%2F%2Fmapaghimagsik.comicgenesis.com
Cache-Control: max-age=0
works and returns the page as expected
I re-tested removing all comment related information, and the error repeated.
jm
Leaving a test comment
Restrung
I’m writing a song called “Open Thread.”
the Conster
I love these lurker-flushing cookie-getting opportunities.
I CAN HAZ FRONT PAGE NOW PLZ?
LindaS
Comment trying to restore front page.
guhm61
Testing to try to get front page back.
Edit: Victory in snowland!
Carrie
@SiubhanDuinne: Yeah, he’s a giver alright.
mclaren
What problems accessing the front page? You poor chumps aren’t using Windows Vista, are you?
mapaghimagsik
@mclaren:
yeah, just to kill this line of thought. I can reproduce the issue on Ubuntu. This is definitely the web server not serving up what its supposed to. Firefox 3.5.7 btw
I’d be curious to proxy safari though, to see if there is already the comment cookie there, or if it is following up with a different request.
Don K
Testing…
Don K
It works! Thanks whoever found this fix first. (And John, please no nastygram for e-mailing you…)
PHinSD
First I bought the Furminator. Then I donated to the site re-design. Now I have to comment?
Donald G
Test test. Commenting didn’t work this morning in fixing the problem. Let’s see if it works this time.
Seemed to work this time. Let’s see if I close the browser if I can get back in.
Donald G
Nope, closing the browser and coming back in screws everything up.
mellens
I’m just here for the cookies and Tunch.
Comrade Darkness
@mapaghimagsik: Do you still have the response header from that second successful transaction?
Oh, hell, I guess I can go make my OWN successful response header, can’t I?
This worked (normal request):
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:37:38 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12
Set-Cookie: bb2_screener_=1265848658+74.106.201.236; path=/
Vary: Cookie
X-Pingback: https://balloon-juice.com/xmlrpc.php
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
200 OK
I deleted domain cookies only but left cookies enabled overall and it still worked:
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:38:45 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12
Vary: Cookie
X-Pingback: https://balloon-juice.com/xmlrpc.php
WP-Super-Cache: WP-Cache
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=97
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
200 OK
Disabled ALL cookies and yup, it fails:
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:40:57 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12
Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie
Cache-Control: max-age=300, must-revalidate
WP-Cache: Served supercache file from PHP
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
200 OK
The WP-Cache response is different in all three cases although only the last delivers no content. AND in fact the header say Content-length: 0. So it doesn’t think it has anything to deliver. I still would waterboard the caching service until it talks.
comment
this again
Bo
just following orders to see if this works …
Comrade Darkness
Okay, yet another case. Everyone having fun with this frog dissection of the intertubes? Can’t you just smell the digital formaldehyde?
With cookies still disabled, this url works with this response header
https://balloon-juice.com/?p=0
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:47:40 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12
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Boy, it looks like there are three different services responding, depending upon the circumstances.
Leigh A.
Leaving a test comment.
WaterGirl
@Donald G: In Firefox on the Mac posting a comment helps even after closing the browser.
Loon Juice
is Firefox much better than explorer? I tried it and didn’t see much difference.
on a whim
Once more, with feeling.
IP
Posting to regain access. To the Lurkmobile!
Darkness
From the wp-super-cache docs:
I think we have a culprit
mapaghimagsik
@Darkness:
Nicely freakin done! I think this agrees with what I’m seeing as well.
kick that caching service in the junk until it cries!
And yeah, there’s not enough digital dissection in my life these days. Too much CISSP.
guhm61
Declared victory too soon. On Safari getting a “…web server isn’t responding…” message. Went back to Firefox – no luck. So back to accessing site via Google then via the February 2010 Archive files
mapaghimagsik
Another post to set up comment info after clearing cookies.
Poicephalus
the /index workaround seems fine.
Publish it more.
Comrade Darkness
@mapaghimagsik: I’ve got more than that, actually, but I assume the webmages do as well.
content-length occurs in one and only one place in all of the super cache code.
In wp-cache-phase2.php
tracking down $gzsize, it’s coming from . . .
Gosh this code is messy. I don’t even see where this thing reloads the gzip file back in to serve to the next customer. I only see it saving it.
I’d call it a bug. Possibly one that could be solved by turning off gzip in super cache, at least to see if that helps.
mapaghimagsik
@Comrade Darkness:
That’s wordpress lib code, right? PHP is not my fu, more a .. well nevermind. But my exposure to WP code and PHP in general is that cleanliness isn’t as culturally enforced as other languages, mostly because you can get the job done so quick and it does seem readable at the most basic levels…but I digress.
I’m using BURP Proxy to decipher what I’m seeing. Its more a black box move, so I’m glad someone is white boxing this thing.
If there’s a cache in the way, I think there’s something weird with it, fav.ico was returning a full blown page, which is just darn odd.
Oddly enough, my last run and record indicated fav.ico wasn’t spitting out crap, so I suspect code or configuration is changing out from underneath us.
Odd to be communicating via the web site you’re diagnosing.
Any bets there’s a ‘dev’ or ‘qa’ site? Anyone?
Special Ed
posting a comment in hope of fixing…..
Monty
Hope this fixes the problem
asiangrrlMN
@sputnikgayle: Damn. Good luck with your hubby. Lots of vibes to you. Please keep us updated.
@J. Michael Neal: Well, bully for them if they can’t handle the truth. Good luck!
I have had no problems seeing the front page, knock on something.
Sweet Fanny Adams
Lemming…
SFPhil
Getting blank page with Google Chrome on a HP PC with Vista. Let’s see if this solves it.
nalbar
comment
chris
Thanks, John Cole.
I thought I was having a Linux-Firefox problem.
Linux rules! Most of the time…
abo
oh, another test…..
Comrade Darkness
@mapaghimagsik: It’s a third party module that is WP compatible. It is sloppy, although, it’s not doing really all that much, so it doesn’t have to be nasa spec or anything. It does look like it could use a major cleanup by the author.
Sweet Fanny Adams
Posting a comment does work. Front page back – I’m a happy grrl now!
Jude
Leaving a comment to see if it works…
I keep finding the front page by clicking on ‘cache’ in a Google search for this site.
Well, it was time to comment anyway. I love this place!
360 Degrees
Thanks for your effort!
Jude
It worked. How strange.
WordPress sucks. My site got hacked so badly through WP. It became a portal and server to some porn junk and I eventually had to start all over again. Hopefully the issues here are much easier to deal with!
gardengirl
Love the site, been lurking for a while. Hope posting works for me as well.
Did anyone else laugh at the weekend’s headline
“Snow Paralyzes Washington” I thought the Republican’s in the senate were going for that distinction.
Jeanne
Just posting.
mapaghimagsik
@Comrade Darkness:
If its responsible for this miserable state of affairs, the author needs to be kicked in the junk repeatedly.
Or, it could be configuration. Still, its not good software until the authors of offensive bugs have been kicked in the proverbial junk.
No junk was hurt in the creation of this post.
mapaghimagsik
@Donald G:
Hey Donald, you might have things set up to clear cookies after closing browser. That would cause the behavior you’re seeing.
Roxann
I miss balloon juice. I hope this fixes the problem.
PegR
Ignore this.
diane
testing
Ron
Bizarre. It works fine when I use firefox, but comes up blank when I use Chrome. Sounds like a truly bizarro issue.
mapaghimagsik
@Ron: that’s cuz Firefox still has your old posting info, and Chrome does not. if you posted with chrome, you’d be able to use Chrome, too
Petedownunder
Web site not accessible from Firefox, at least from downunder
Gay Veteran
Survived Snowmageddon II in Baltimore! Woo-hoo!!!
Catsmeat
Hi Tunch!
Frankie T.
Post-n-fix, I hope.
Crazy C
strange with the comment thing, hope this works
Brendan
Been locked out of the front page of balloon-juice for what seems like a week or so (perhaps I’m overreacting due to the blizzard). Anyway, trying the post-comment trick…
Rich
Post…
Richterscale
Comment pending…
dantheman
huh?
Sibelius
I guess I’ll try to.
frosty
Just a comment for comment’s sake. And to see if this gets me back to the front page.
Carry on.
flukebucket
cookie please
McFrank
Cookie!
Princess
This is just a trick to flush the lurkers out, isn’t it?
Sandmann
Dammit let me in!