A new error page..

Flamsterette_X · June 7, 2002, 8:58pm

Just thought you’d like to know about this new error page that crops up every now and then:

I don’t get it… how could it not receive any data for the request? Can someone shed some light on this, please? Thanks.

F_X

Polycarp · June 7, 2002, 9:54pm

Now wait a minute! The hamsters are using squids to retrieve search results now?!?!? Jerry, what kind of menagerie do you have there, anyway?

(Note: The first time I tried to post this, I lost connection to the SD – a likely story! The hamsters and the squids are trying to cover up the truth!)

Polycarp · June 7, 2002, 9:59pm

And then it posted it twice – obviously they’re trying to make trouble for me!

Arnold_Winkelried · June 7, 2002, 10:19pm

A new error message! Finally, my life is complete. Flamsterette_X, you are hereby put in charge of the error message scrapbook.

Not me. Have you tried the power of prayer?

erislover · June 7, 2002, 10:34pm

I don’t believe this is a straightdope error.

Flamsterette_X · June 7, 2002, 11:45pm

One other thing: what the heck is a “zero-sized reply?” That has absolutely no meaning for me at all.

Polycarp: What next after hamsters and squids? Maybe giant pandas?

Arnold: Believe me, I’ve tried praying to my deity of choice… and as for being put formally in charge of the error message scrapbook, I’d think I need more data. For example, what were the error messages people received in the past? Is there a source or a logbook anywhere that documents these things?

erislover: It might not be, even though this is the only place I’ve encountered it. Might have nothing to do with the server or anything. But since I have no idea about it, it goes here.

F_X

milquetoast · June 8, 2002, 12:51am

This is just a WAG here, but a “zero-sized reply” would be a reply with a size of zero.

Seriously, I’m guessing it means the response it received had no data, and, therefore, its response to that response was “Hey, Buddy, I got no data here! Whachu want from me? Anyhow?”

Duck_Duck_Goose · June 8, 2002, 2:41am

http://forums.spinner.com/showthread.php?threadid=1546

Flamsterette, what’s your browser?

http://crossover.codeweavers.com/pipermail/plugin-support/2001-December/000958.html

I also found the issue reported in
> http://crossover.codeweavers.com/pipermail/support/2001-October/000437.html
> [shockwave refuses to complete the installation]
>
> Alas, I can’t get web access without going through the squid proxy.
>
> I noticed that the completion phases tries to fetch a URL
> pinger.macromedia.com:80/
> Manually trying this URL gives a ‘zero-sized reply’ error from squid (can
> someone not going via squid confirm what it returns?) and on a hunch added
> it to a reject list in my local junkbuster config. i.e. that URL gets
> blocked.

This may well be the problem. If I try it through my Squid proxy I
get the ‘Zero-sized’ reply html page, just like you, but if I try to
fetch ‘http://pinger.macromedia.com/’ directly then I get… a zero
sized reply, just like Squid says.
So I suspect that the installer knows how to deal with a zero-sized
reply (expects it?) but not the HTML code returned by Squid.
> Now the installer seemed to complete, asking me for
> registration details, and gets all the way to asking me “Your computer
> must be restarted to complete the installtion” :-). I figured I could
> restart crossover/wine and be done, but alas no. Every time I hit a
> shockwave plugin (as in the crossover test page), the plugin pops up with
> the “you must restart” message.

I am not getting this message when I install Shockwave so I am not
sure what could be causing it. I guess you already tried going through
the completion phase again?
Otherwise I’ll try the same tricks as you tomorrow to see if I can
reproduce this bug and see what differs from the normal install.

Does this make sense to anybody out there? Jerry?

Flamsterette_X · June 8, 2002, 7:46pm

All that stuff you quoted does not make sense to me, DFuck Duck Goose. Since the only place I’m getting this particular error page is here at my brother’s, I’ll give you their browser/OS details:

OS: Windows 2000/ME (I think; I don’t want to restart the computer just to find out)
Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0

F_X

Kal · June 8, 2002, 10:20pm

[hijack]

Best typo ever!!

[/hijack]

Duck_Duck_Goose · June 9, 2002, 3:36am

Sure it’s a typo?

Flamsterette_X · June 9, 2002, 5:21am

Kal, I just got your message… and of course I had to see what this “one hell of a typo” in my thread was. I cannot believe I made that typo… spellcheck would be good, but more diligent previewing would be even better, I suppose.

DDG, that’s what I get for trying to be nice and using your full screen name. I swear that was a typo… I’m very sorry. Forgive me?

F_X

Black_Lizard · June 9, 2002, 7:46pm

I ran a whois on the aebc.com domain name:

sound to like this error was created by something other than the SDMB.

Flamsterette_X your location says Vancouver BC how close to Richmond are you? could your ISP piggyback off of the Cipherkey Exchange Corporation ?

I just thought this might be of some interest.

Black Lizard

Flamsterette_X · June 9, 2002, 9:20pm

Actually, I’m in Richmond. (note to self: must change location) If I could be bothered, I’d look up where that road is in relation to my brother’s, but I’m not that curious.

And as for the Cipherkey Exchange Corporation, I have no clue what that could be.

Thanks for the info.

F_X

Duck_Duck_Goose · June 10, 2002, 2:09am

No problem.

–Just give me all your money and your first-born child and we’ll call it even…

heh

Flamsterette_X · June 10, 2002, 3:36am

DDG, you sure you want $300 Canadian money? As for my first-born child… sorry! I don’t have any kids yet!

F_X

Flamsterette_X · June 10, 2002, 4:04am

And just in case it didn’t come across…

F_X

Flamsterette_X · June 10, 2002, 4:10am

And just in case it didn’t come across…

F_X

saoirse · June 12, 2002, 3:17am

Zero-sized reply… that’s the second new phrase I’ve picked up today. "I mentioned a raise at the Loya Jirga I had with my bosses, and they gave me a zero-sized reply.