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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject: 406 not acceptable
OK....so I've never had this happen before. I was trying to make a post and kept getting this error. I finally narrowed it down to this pair of sentences:
Quote:
It is a self loathing thing to get wrapped up in which evil megalomaniac is going to be selected as your next ruler.
Far better to just realize this system as being impressed on you from outside to control you than to get wrapped up in trying to select the least evil of the uniformly evil choices to be your ruler.
With the paragraph break where it is, the software will allow them. If you try to use them together without the break, you get a 406 error.
I tried changing around some of the words and couldn't find anything specific that changed it. Anybody got any ideas as to why? _________________ "I was born in a deep forest
I wish I could live here all my life
I am made from stones and roots
My home, these woods and roads
All my life I loved this sound
Of the woods all around
Eagles fly where the winds blow free" -Korpiklaani
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: Re: 406 not acceptable
I don't know, but I have that problem fairly often when I'm posting news stories. Very tedious and annoying.
The only thing I can figure is that it doesn't like certain strings of letters. Perhaps because they are code for symbols that aren't allowed. _________________ "The problems of today will not be solved by the same thinking that produced the problems in the first place." - Albert Einstein
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:00 am Post subject: Re: 406 not acceptable
Characters that are non-standard for English are not allowed. Aaron said it's to keep hackers out, or something like that.
But SPG's post doesn't have any of those. And I've had similar things happen to me, too. Sometimes just adding a blank line between sentences is enough to get it to go through.
I also have problems with some URLs. I have to TinyURL them to get them to post, even though they don't contain any non-English characters. _________________ "The problems of today will not be solved by the same thinking that produced the problems in the first place." - Albert Einstein
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:08 am Post subject: Re: 406 not acceptable
Yeah it sounds like an ASCII VS Unicode problem. Also the blank line
problem people are describing... If you are using a text editor like
notepad, (depending on the programs install settings) it may have
snuck in an invisible spacer code into your text that doesn't work with
the server. In fact if you are using word or any text editor and you
run into this problem after copying your text, the problem is
probably because of the text editor.
If you are writing your posts in the browser and you run into this
problem, try a different browser. The problem could be in your browser
text settings. And another problem that could cause what I'm hearing
might be OS keyboard settings. You may be typing with Unicode
settings and not know it... So there are a number of things that could
cause problems like what I'm hearing.
If you could post a few details, it might help...
1. I booted my WindowCrapP Machine
2. I logged onto my AOLOL internet
3. Opened Microsoft Exploiter to check installnewviruses.com
4. Then I went to peakoil.com and opened notpad to right a poost.
5. I copied my notpad tixt onto peakoil.com and the poost didn't wrk?
Hahaha...
Going back to notepad, if that's where the problem is... Click on
"Format" and unclick "word wrap". Then select all the text for your
post and paste it into your browser. And if that doesn't work, try
giving more details, but I suspect the problem is in something you
are doing and not with the server.
Leanan wrote:
I also have problems with some URLs. I have to TinyURL them to
get them to post, even though they don't contain any non-English
characters.
Tinyurl.com is great, but the cause of URL problems
is not because of bad text characters but because the URL doesn't
end in ".html" or has stuff like "?" question marks in it. And the
server's software wasn't programmed to recognize links with
unusual extensions or non standard things in the URL.
So that's a different problem...
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:31 am Post subject: Re: 406 not acceptable
I don't use a text editor. I use Firefox, and I ain't switching browsers. (FWIW, the news editors who use IE have the same problem, with the same URLs.)
Quote:
Tinyurl.com is great, but the cause of URL problems
is not because of bad text characters but because the URL doesn't
end in ".html" or has stuff like "?" question marks in it. And the
server's software wasn't programmed to recognize links with
unusual extensions or non standard things in the URL.
So that's a different problem...
I'm not so sure. Most news sites have a standard form for their URLs. If one of their URLs has odd symbols or ends in a strange extension, they all do. But only some of their URLs cause a problem, so I don't think that's the issue.
IME, the ones that cause problems are the ones that use strings of numbers as part of the path. Every once in awhile you hit a number string the server doesn't like, and it doesn't let you post the URL. _________________ "The problems of today will not be solved by the same thinking that produced the problems in the first place." - Albert Einstein
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:54 am Post subject: Re: 406 not acceptable
steam_cannon wrote:
If you could post a few details, it might help...
1. I booted my WindowCrapP Machine
2. I logged onto my AOLOL internet
3. Opened Microsoft Exploiter to check installnewviruses.com
4. Then I went to peakoil.com and opened notpad to right a poost.
5. I copied my notpad tixt onto peakoil.com and the poost didn't
wrk?
Ummm...XP media edition sp2, hardwire DSL running through a 3com switch and a D-Link router, firefox 2.0.0.12. I typed all the text in the little "post a reply" box. I did cut and paste a quote elsewhere in the post, but not near the two sentences in question. I tried deleting both entire sentences and re-typing them in case some little extra invisible character had snuck in, but it didn't help at all. Like I said, this was the first time it's happened to me out of several thousand posts, and it was just those two sentences that gave trouble out of probably thirty in the post. _________________ "I was born in a deep forest
I wish I could live here all my life
I am made from stones and roots
My home, these woods and roads
All my life I loved this sound
Of the woods all around
Eagles fly where the winds blow free" -Korpiklaani
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:15 am Post subject: Re: 406 not acceptable
smallpoxgirl wrote:
...XP media edition sp2, hardwire DSL running through a 3com
switch and a D-Link router, firefox 2.0.0.12. I typed all the text in
the little "post a reply" box. I did cut and paste a quote elsewhere
in the post, but not near the two sentences in question. I tried
deleting both entire sentences and re-typing them in case some
little extra invisible character had snuck in, but it didn't help at all.
Like I said, this was the first time it's happened to me out of several
thousand posts, and it was just those two sentences that gave
trouble out of probably thirty in the post.
Hmmm, well if it's just once in a while and typed in on the page...
It's probably an intermittent firefox glitch. Firefox is great, but it can
glitch like anything else. Maybe converting the copied text into the
text box, firefox messed up some of the text you typed earlier. And
it's probably not the operating system if it's only once in a while. So
you might be able to test this next time when it happens by:
1. Opening up windows explorer
2. Going to peakoil.com and logging in...
3. Going to the forum you want to post in...
4. Then typing/copying in the text the same way.
If internet explorer doesn't give you the same problem, it's probably
a firefox glitch. If it does the same thing in Explorer it still is probably
a browser text oddity, though there may not be any easy solution...
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:26 am Post subject: Re: 406 not acceptable
I'll try that next time. Thanks for the suggestion. _________________ "I was born in a deep forest
I wish I could live here all my life
I am made from stones and roots
My home, these woods and roads
All my life I loved this sound
Of the woods all around
Eagles fly where the winds blow free" -Korpiklaani
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:25 am Post subject: Re: 406 not acceptable
I kept getting these as well, found this thread, read
steam_cannon wrote:
sounds like an ASCII VS Unicode problem
... scanned my post for illegal characters, found the word resume, removed the accented e's and voila! success. Apparently it doesn't like ASCII characters, and further tests have since confirmed this.
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