Downloading pages
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St. Jude Donor '15-'16-'17
Downloading pages
Roughly one third of my clicks on various navigation links on this site are downloading the pages instead of displaying them in my browser. It's ONLY on this site.
I'm a senior software engineer by trade, and I've warned you about a "double-click" issue sounding like a screwed up server in the load balancer rotation. I've also been the lucky receiver of some nasty spyware that took me several hours to remove around that time. This feels like the same sort of thing. I believe one or more of your web servers is serving out the response MIME-types as some other file-type rather than html so browsers want to download it rather than render it. You end up with a bunch of file downloads at the bottom of the screen. It's really, REALLY annoying.
As before, I'm willing to work with you to debug/troubleshoot the issue, but please don't ignore it.
I'm a senior software engineer by trade, and I've warned you about a "double-click" issue sounding like a screwed up server in the load balancer rotation. I've also been the lucky receiver of some nasty spyware that took me several hours to remove around that time. This feels like the same sort of thing. I believe one or more of your web servers is serving out the response MIME-types as some other file-type rather than html so browsers want to download it rather than render it. You end up with a bunch of file downloads at the bottom of the screen. It's really, REALLY annoying.
As before, I'm willing to work with you to debug/troubleshoot the issue, but please don't ignore it.
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yup.
something is a miss.
I normally use firefox but can't now.
if I don't get a download request I get a page of code symbols.
I have to use Internet explorer now. yuck.
ONLY HERE.
something is a miss.
I normally use firefox but can't now.
if I don't get a download request I get a page of code symbols.
I have to use Internet explorer now. yuck.
ONLY HERE.
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So that we can investigate, please provide the following:
1) What browser(s) are experiencing this issue
2) What OS is being used
3) Does this occur logged in, logged out or both
calwldlife, regarding page symbols, if you could provide a screen capture of that the next time, I'd like to see exactly what you're seeing.
1) What browser(s) are experiencing this issue
2) What OS is being used
3) Does this occur logged in, logged out or both
calwldlife, regarding page symbols, if you could provide a screen capture of that the next time, I'd like to see exactly what you're seeing.
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Chrome 20.0.01132.57 m
Windows 7 (home premium)
Logged in (haven't tried logged out)
As with the double click issue, it is intermittent. I think that's an important point. Servers don't just randomly decide to behave differently on different http requests. There's one or more servers in a rotation that aren't right.
Windows 7 (home premium)
Logged in (haven't tried logged out)
As with the double click issue, it is intermittent. I think that's an important point. Servers don't just randomly decide to behave differently on different http requests. There's one or more servers in a rotation that aren't right.
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) usually does get through, then I get the download at the bottom, and if I click submit post again, it tell me it's a dupe.I only typically post in PR&C. It's been a while since I've posted anywhere else.
If this helps, it usually happens in batches. I'll click 20 links and get the proper behavior, then i'll get like 5 or 6 bad responses in a row. Waiting for a short time in between seems to help sometimes.
Last edited by Vitoc; Aug 1, 2012 at 09:21 PM.
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