Service disruption over at The-Big-Meow.com today

[dianeduane]

Just so that everybody'll know: I've been moving all the content at the old TBM website into a new installation of the Drupal content-management system, which will make everything a lot tidier and cause things to run more smoothly (take a look at EuropeanCuisines.com to see how one of our other implementations of this system can work). Later in the day, when I actually start moving directories around, things are likely to get peculiar, so please don't be surprised at 404's and other strange manifestations.

If you're a subscriber to The Big Meow, please don't be concerned -- this isn't going to affect the chapter that's just been posted (see the blog previous posting to this one). The subscriber-only versions of the chapter are hosted elsewhere. (You should be getting a notification email around now as to the location, reminding you of usernames and passwords: if you don't get one, email me with the word PICARESQUE in the subject line and I'll send you what yoy need.)

Thanks!

 

Comments

[hrrunka]

Good luck with the transfer.

For reasons that remain unclear at present, I'm getting a "412 Precondition Failed" message from http://www.europeancuisines.com/ which makes plenty of suggestions for correcting the problem. The only one which might have applied (connect directly, not via a proxy) didn't make any difference. Curiously, Anthrocon's website was giving me exactly this problem last year.

However, using a different computer which has never gone through the proxy did work. I'm guessing there's a blacklist with a memory behind whatever triggers the 412, and it's got this computer tagged...

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Hmm, 412 implies a precondition from the client (in the headers, things like If-Match and If-Modified-Since) according to the HTTP spec., it seems a weird response from the site for a direct connection. I suppose a proxy might be adding the modification check and then passing the response through rather than returning the cached version, or a browser could have lost the page in cache but still have a "last modified" data saved. Have you completely flushed your cache or tried a different browser? I just tried it using links with no problem. Of course, it did cause a different problem, I now have a yen for Pierniki (to go with my craving for Borscht)...

[hrrunka]

Yeah. Been down the same route before with anthrocon.org, too. In that case the admin twiddled something at the server to solve the problem. Think I'll have to dig out the email correspondence and see what his explanation was. That'll probably have to wait til Monday, as the mailbox concerned is at work...

[hrrunka]

Apparently, in the www.anthrocon.org case, the problem as reported on the server was:

"Header 'TE' present but TE not specified in 'Connection' header"

It seems the web cache/proxy was adding a header like this:

"TE: chunked"

and the "badbehavior" module www.anthrocon.org was using didn't like it. Having found something it didn't like, it then remembered the offending IP address, and rejected all subsequent connection attempts. I'm told the server reported subsequent attempts thus:

"I know you and I don't like you."

;)

As www.anthrocon.org is now quite happy to let me browse it, I can't compare the text of the warning page I get from www.europeancuisines.com with the one I used to get from www.anthrocon.org , but my memory says they're (almost?) identical...