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General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Greven on June 23, 2005, 09:45:10 AM

Title: Downloading?
Post by: Greven on June 23, 2005, 09:45:10 AM

Why cant I download anything here form the forum?

It just says it can not find it...

Title: Downloading?
Post by: PurpleYouko on June 23, 2005, 09:58:33 AM

No idea!

I don't think anyone has ever reported that problem before.

Could it be your internet explore security levels? or are you using a different browser?

Title: Downloading?
Post by: Ulciscor on June 23, 2005, 10:02:43 AM

I put a topic saying I couldnt download the system variables file. It says file not found etc, I am using IE 6 SP 2. I also get the same problem when I use Firefox.

Title: Downloading?
Post by: PurpleYouko on June 23, 2005, 10:05:46 AM

Can you download robots from the beastiary?

Title: Downloading?
Post by: Greven on June 23, 2005, 10:08:36 AM

I use IE 6, and I can not download anything from here, but everywhere else it works fine.

Title: Downloading?
Post by: Ulciscor on June 23, 2005, 10:09:14 AM

Can't download any files attached to topics at all. I can copy the text alright though lol.

Title: Downloading?
Post by: PurpleYouko on June 23, 2005, 10:19:30 AM

There are no controls on this board that allow an admin to disable downloads for a specific member without reasigning them to a different user group. You are both classified as "member" and as such have full privaleges to upload or dowload files on all boards except those restricted to admin only.

The problem must be your end.

What security settings do you have in IE properties?

I have a similar problem on my PC at home. It downloads OK but won't display certain gif files. (Pretty much always those put up by Mighty Penguin. I still can't see his avatar at home)

Title: Downloading?
Post by: Ulciscor on June 23, 2005, 10:20:56 AM

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

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While trying to process the request:

GET /DarwinBots_Forum/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=64809 HTTP/1.1
Host: s9.invisionfree.com
Accept: */*
Cookie: DarwinBots_Forummember_id=45; DarwinBots_Forumpass_hash=a0c723d52d1315c563ade5359c67e376; DarwinBots_Forumforum_read=a%3A10%3A%7Bi%3A7%3Bi%3A1119461231%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A1119534255%3Bi%3A31%3Bi%3A1119461272%3Bi%3A10%3Bi%3A1119534095%3Bi%3A11%3Bi%3A1119465452%3Bi%3A13%3Bi%3A1119536214%3Bi%3A2%3Bi%3A1119522499%3Bi%3A32%3Bi%3A1119533500%3Bi%3A28%3Bi%3A1119534190%3Bi%3A22%3Bi%3A1119536217%3B%7D; DarwinBots_Forumsession_id=cee4be0c05c0278a1d50546a5e7f7bee; DarwinBots_Forumtopicsread=a%3A8%3A%7Bi%3A583%3Bi%3A1119533869%3Bi%3A592%3Bi%3A1119533676%3Bi%3A587%3Bi%3A1119534262%3Bi%3A594%3Bi%3A1119534581%3Bi%3A593%3Bi%3A1119535801%3Bi%3A595%3Bi%3A1119536166%3Bi%3A21%3Bi%3A1119536221%3Bi%3A20%3Bi%3A1119536297%3B%7D
Connection: Keep-Alive
X-Forwarded-For: 81.131.169.104
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; YPC 3.0.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Accept-Language: en-gb
Referer: http://s9.invisionfree.com/DarwinBots_Foru...hp?showtopic=20 (http://s9.invisionfree.com/DarwinBots_Forum/index.php?showtopic=20)

The following error was encountered:

Invalid Response
The HTTP Response message received from the contacted server could not be understood or was otherwise malformed. Please contact the site operator. Your cache administrator may be able to provide you with more details about the exact nature of the problem if needed.

Title: Downloading?
Post by: PurpleYouko on June 23, 2005, 10:44:52 AM

In the words of somebody from the Invision board forum..

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Try clearing your cache and cookies.

On IE: Tools -> Internet Options -> Clear History, Files, and Cache

It looks like it might be the cache settings on your own PCs

Title: Downloading?
Post by: Greven on June 23, 2005, 10:50:06 AM

Still not working.... :(

Title: Downloading?
Post by: Ulciscor on June 24, 2005, 07:25:46 AM

Total lack of workage here too. Curse these message boards.  :cuss:

Title: Downloading?
Post by: PurpleYouko on June 24, 2005, 08:30:38 AM

I will ask the question to the invision administrators and see if they have any idea.

Title: Downloading?
Post by: PurpleYouko on June 27, 2005, 11:25:38 AM

This response from the invision admin....

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I removed the cookie information, posting that could enable people to take over the person's account.

Are they using a proxy or other non-standard things on their connection?

Any comments here that I can pass on?

Title: Downloading?
Post by: Ulciscor on June 27, 2005, 11:29:33 AM

I don't have a clue but things seem to be working now; I managed to download the readme file [Num] left on one of my posts. :D

Title: Downloading?
Post by: Botsareus on June 27, 2005, 05:53:47 PM

yea, I got a comment:

YOU ARE SAYING THAT THERE WAS A WAY FOR A PERSON TO TAKE OVER MY ACCOUNT JUST BY POSTING SOMTHING?  :burnup:  :rant:

Title: Downloading?
Post by: PurpleYouko on June 28, 2005, 08:38:26 AM

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yea, I got a comment:

YOU ARE SAYING THAT THERE WAS A WAY FOR A PERSON TO TAKE OVER MY ACCOUNT JUST BY POSTING SOMTHING?  :burnup:  :rant:

UHHHHHH......

How about NO!

They would have had to decipher the information in a specific cookie, left on the server by one of your posts, to find your password.
Then they could log in as you and change it.

All your posts have to contain a cookie or the board wouldn't allow them to be registered as coming from your ID.

Apparently it used to be possible for other users to see this cookie. Now they can't.