Language Tutorial Problem

[Brian Rice]

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I have to escalate this to the server administrators now. Mediawiki  
developers indicate that the old versions the server is running are  
unacceptable in order to not expect bugs, and I don't have root  
access to upgrade it. Also, I do not have access rights to fix MySQL  
database issues, which may also be the case.

I should add that I have been leaning for some time towards another  
offered free hosting setup via a friend, and this may happen sooner  
rather than later now. I've been putting up with this for years, and  
it's impeding all kinds of progress.

On Nov 23, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Brian Rice wrote:

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> Page history:
> http://slate.tunes.org/wiki/index.php? 
> title=Language_Tutorial&diff=0&oldid=1429
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> is still viewable, so I think this discounts the page-size  
> hypothesis. My other idea is that there is a firewall that is  
> reacting to too many hits to a single URL and screening or limiting  
> them. I'll ask the administrators whether this could be relevant.
>
> On Nov 23, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Brian Rice wrote:
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>> I've reproduced it with HEAD and wget, and FireFox-based browsers.
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>> Yet, Safari seems totally immune to this problem, even after  
>> flushing its cache and so forth.
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>> I am inclined to try splitting the page up to see if page size  
>> matters or content. I may try that soon, or not if some other  
>> factor is determined to matter.
>>
>> Ken Causey is also looking at it; this is a curious problem.
>>
>> On Nov 22, 2005, at 10:49 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> This is another confirmation here.  The page won't load for me  
>>>> either.
>>>
>>> I'd just like to give more details. The server doesn't give a  
>>> response
>>> when accessing http://slate.tunes.org/wiki/Language_Tutorial.  
>>> Instead
>>> the connection is instantly closed. Running the program HEAD  
>>> shows this.
>>> If doing so on bespin, you need to unset http_proxy in order to get
>>> correct results.
>>>
>>> helmut at bespin:~$ env -u http_proxy HEAD http://slate.tunes.org/ 
>>> wiki/Language_Tutorial
>>> 500 EOF instead of reponse status line
>>> Client-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:44:39 GMT
>>>
>>> Greetings
>>>
>>> Helmut Grohne
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