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Metropol

(March 2011)

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DF
DrewF
Critique posted:
In terms of the Upload Service, it's either it or Google Chrome, but one of them doesn't enjoy reading SketchUp files when people post them as part of their mocks. For me, upon clicking one, it won't download it, but instead open it in Chrome, as code, for Chrome itself decide it is just text in Korean. Basically, the file should download, but doesn't.

Is this just some problem on my end, or can others replicate it?


I'm on Chrome and it does the same thing. Best method round is to right click and Save As.
PE
Pete Founding member
it could be an mime type error. shall add it to the list.
PE
Pete Founding member
The Google Sketchup problem should be solved now Smile
RO
rob Founding member
Funny error message when I attempt to download aconnell's link in the BBC Breakfast request thread:

Quote:
Host Not Configured to Serve Web Traffic

You've requested a page on a website (up.metropol247.co.uk) that is on the CloudFlare network. Unfortunately, the host web server does not appear to be configured to accept web traffic or serve web traffic. If you are the owner of this website, you should login to CloudFlare and change the DNS records for to resolve to a server configured to serve web traffic.

If you continue to experience this error, you may contact support. Please reference the following information in your message:

Timestamp: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:09:20 -0700

Your IP address: HIDDEN BY ME

Requested URL: up.metropol247.co.uk/aconnell/BBC%20News%20-%20Breakfast%20-%202009%20-%20Titles%20%20Vamp.wav

Error reference number: 1004

Server ID: FL_21F3

Process ID: PID_1334657360.047-1-468663854

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
PE
Pete Founding member
yup, had a few reports of that. am investigating whether its essentially just replacing a standard timeout or whether it's a flaw in the CDN system.

Has anyone noticed any increase in speed since I turned this thing on btw?
JA
JAS84
That error appeared merely trying to access the forum. I don't think it's a timeout, because it appeared instantly.
Quote:
Host Not Configured to Serve Web Traffic
You've requested a page on a website (www.metropol247.co.uk) that is on the CloudFlare network. Unfortunately, the host web server does not appear to be configured to accept web traffic or serve web traffic. If you are the owner of this website, you should login to CloudFlare and change the DNS records for to resolve to a server configured to serve web traffic.

If you continue to experience this error, you may contact support. Please reference the following information in your message:

Timestamp: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:20:54 -0700

Your IP address: HIDDEN BY ME

Requested URL: www.metropol247.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

Error reference number: 1004

Server ID: FL_19F3

Process ID: PID_1335100849.388-1-1611551822

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.162 Safari/535.19

14 days later

CR
Critique
If this is unique to .skp files or not, I don't know, but this file provokes a 'This webpage is not found error'. It still appears in the user's uploads, so presumably it hasn't been deleted, and if it has, then surely there should be the Tsk card page?
DF
DrewF
Critique posted:
If this is unique to .skp files or not, I don't know, but this file provokes a 'This webpage is not found error'. It still appears in the user's uploads, so presumably it hasn't been deleted, and if it has, then surely there should be the Tsk card page?


Not sure, but it downloads fine by right clicking and Saving As.

Perhaps it's a temporary solution to the problem that used to happen with SKP files when it came up with a load of binary nonsense when the link was clicked on, instead of downloading.
PE
Pete Founding member
DrewF posted:
Critique posted:
If this is unique to .skp files or not, I don't know, but this file provokes a 'This webpage is not found error'. It still appears in the user's uploads, so presumably it hasn't been deleted, and if it has, then surely there should be the Tsk card page?


Not sure, but it downloads fine by right clicking and Saving As.

Perhaps it's a temporary solution to the problem that used to happen with SKP files when it came up with a load of binary nonsense when the link was clicked on, instead of downloading.


see I thought we'd fixed the .skp problem so it would just download. very odd. will investigate further.

9 days later

VM
VMPhil
Oops, just noticed a bug. I uploaded a file called 'EyeTVSnapshot[2].jpg' which is how the software I use automatically numbers each screenshot after the first. Because it used those types of brackets, the .jpg]link to it doesn't work and when I tried to link it in a post it just came up as ".jpg]*".

Oh, and as you can see after pressing 'preview post' linking it doesn't work either with it coming up as ".jpg]link". Here's the raw link:

http://up.metropol247.co.uk/Philip/EyeTVSnapshot%5B2%5D.jpg
WE
Westy2
What is the problem with the 'TV Forum Watch' thread in Metropol?

Why can't we peacefully co-exist with each other without moaning?
JO
Jon
Westy2 posted:
What is the problem with the 'TV Forum Watch' thread in Metropol?

Why can't we peacefully co-exist with each other without moaning?


We could. If there wasn't things to moan about.

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