Are The Internet-Police Perusing PA General Discussion?

[Snowbird]

Whow! Unless there is some sort of glitch between my computer and the "BP is murdering us..." thread, someone is not allowing me and perhaps others to view that thread.

When I click on it, a big white page pops up and says "406 Not Acceptable." This happened once before on another PA thread, but I didn't pay too much attention at the time. :confused:

[Steven]

I don't think so Snowbird. Try this link: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3727-BP-is-murdering-us%E2%80%A6

Namaste, Steven

[Snowbird]

Thank you Steven!! Your link worked just fine.

[Snowbird]

I don't need to be connected to this (thanks for the former connection) but this is the 2nd BP thread that I have clicked on and gotten a white page that says Not Acceptable. This one is BP's other Gulf disaster two weeks before the blast. I don't have any trouble with any of the other threads.

Oh well.

[Anchor]

Snowbird: It would probably take more than one persons reports to convince anyone that it is more than a problem at your end :)

Have you tried with a different browser ?

John..

[Operator]

Snowbird: It would probably take more than one persons reports to convince anyone that it is more than a problem at your end :)


Hi John,

I have experienced the problem too ... for more info on 406 error pages: http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E406.html
In my case it was a little weird (I normally use Firefox): ... I use the "Today's Posts" button to generate the list with actual
posts and then use that page by right-clicking on the links I want to follow and choose "Open link in new tab".
This way I don't have to re-open the actual posts page again and again ...

I experienced more than once that a 406 error happened on the right click method but not when I just left-clicked it.
As far as I can check (part of) the problem is in special characters that are sent in the URI because the title is included (which contains these characters).
One way to avoid the problem is to copy the link in your paste buffer and paste in the address bar (may be a new tab) and then strip the title but leave the
number behind the ? mark ...

E.g. the full URI of your post is: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3762-Are-The-Internet-Police-Perusing-PA-General-Discussion&p=33982#post33982
The URI to this thread is: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3762
or your specific post is: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3762&p=33982#post33982

Happy browsing ...

P.S. I see now that the displayed text on the links are abbreviated ... please hover on the links and check the status bar

[Anchor]

Ok, well that got my attention.

The explanation given at the checkupdown link is somewhat misleading (tending towards wrong!).

Here is a better one



406 is the status returned when the HTTP request has "Accept" headers that are incompatible with what is being requested or what the server is set up to deliver.

To put it in a metaphor, imagine that you're asking me for lunch, and in your request you tell me you have an allergy to peanuts. And I have food, but it all contains nuts. Instead of giving you the food (which would kill you), I will give you an empty response with a status of "unacceptable"

OR imagine that I've asked you for a book to read, but I can only read books in English and French. If you only have books in German, you would give me an empty response with a "406 - Not Acceptable" status.

406 is the server telling you "I have what you asked for, but you won't accept them".

That's what Accept headers in the HTTP request are for. For instance, if the HTTP request includes directions that it will only accept "img/jpg" mime type, the server would send a 406 status if the file requested is an Excel spreadsheet.

To diagnose:
- request one of these pages and analyze the HTTP request headers
- Pay attention to the MIME type of the responses, the Character Set, GZIP encoding

"406 Not Acceptable" is an unusual status code - the most common are 200, 404, 500, 301. You only see a 406 when something is wrong with the server, usually something silly but hard to diagnose. (my emphasis)

Conclusion - somethings up.

John..

[morguana]

also this thread http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3834-A-%ABportal%BB-in-f%E1tima-portugal-Mary-s-energy

fatima portal thread, so its not just the oil ones

[Bill Ryan]

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To all mods and members - the reasons there's a '406' error on one or two threads sometimes is that the automatically-generated URL has unusual characters in it.

The solution is for a mod or admin to edit the thread title to remove the unusual characters - including anything with an accent in any non-English language. That then works on all browsers.

I fixed the FATIMA thread:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3834-A-Portal-in-Fatima-Portugal-Mary-s-energy

The way I did this is guess what the thread title probably should be, then made the amendment in my browser. When I had it, I edited the title as a permanent fix.

I then checked the BP IS MURDERING US thread.

Sure enough, I found an 'unusual' character - an ellipsis [ ... ] instead of three separate dots. Some browsers don't like that in a URL.

I edited the thread to remove the ellipsis - and now it should work for everyone.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3727-BP-is-murdering-us

[morguana]

thx bill, will edit as above in future

[Operator]

When I had it, I edited the title as a permanent fix.

There maybe a more generic solution ... in e.g. Joomla there is an option called "Search engine friendly URLs" (or something like that).
Perhaps vBulletin has an option like his too.

As I demonstrated in my post above the title is not necessary for the url ... it is most likely added to have the possibility of a search engine
to find this link directly ... When I google e.g. 'avalon bp murdering' it finds this url which is pretty neat too of course.

Besides switching on/off this (potential) option there is another automatic solution ... add urlencode or rawurlencode in the php code where
this url is generated (I think the admins have access to the scripts ?). This will probably encode the special characters in a %decimal format.

[Thinker]

Whow! Unless there is some sort of glitch between my computer and the "BP is murdering us..." thread, someone is not allowing me and perhaps others to view that thread.

When I click on it, a big white page pops up and says "406 Not Acceptable." This happened once before on another PA thread, but I didn't pay too much attention at the time. :confused:

Perhaps the Threads posted by Thinker:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3859-Jesus

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3825-Why-we-fight-wars-when-we-could-feed-the-world

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3727-BP-is-murdering-us

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3698-God

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3593-The-14th-Amendment-Robbed-We-the-People

[Anchor]

Should not require a manual fix. I would ask the admins to check with vbulletin for a fix.