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machnhed1

Hi,

I'm trying to trouble shoot this error that we are encountering on one of our machines. If you visit the page http://www.boundlessgallery.com/customer/categories/273/Photographs/ you should see a series of photographs with titles of each, however, on one of our machines (and only one) it displays the following (this is only part of the pages code):

messju · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject:

to me this looks like artefacts of chunked http encoding.
see: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.6.1
(they know this stuff much better than me Smile

)

this may happen if the webserver delivers the body with "Transfer-encoding: chunked" but the client doesn't honor the Transfer-encoding-header and doesn't decode the chunked encoding.

machnhed1 · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:54 pm Post subject:

Not sure if that is the case, because if the user on the same machine trys to browse this category (which runs the exact same code except that it is pulling information about a different category): http://www.boundlessgallery.com/customer/categories/521/Prints/ the page works as designed.
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boots · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 9:13 pm Post subject:

It only happens on one machine? What kind of machine? OS? Browser?

I wonder if it is simply suffering a flakey network connection or other hardware issue. How does that machine perform overall? FWIW, the site looked fine from here, too.

machnhed1 · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject:

Yeah, just one machine running Win XP Pro. Its a smoking workstation with raid, dual proc, etc.. I'm still of the mindset that it is something unique to the machine.

Thanks for taking a look at the pages.

Here's another interesting tid-bit, the machine also has problems regardless of whether I am using IE or Firefox.
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boots · Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:11 am Post subject:

hmm. I've checked it now with IE on w2k and Firefox on Debian and it looks fine on both (btw, nice site design). I would consider checking out the hardware and drivers a bit more closely. Did you try turning off encoding at the server to see if that makes any difference?

messju · Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:29 am Post subject:

maybe that machine where it's not working does use a proxy that is buggy? some webcache? some anti-virus-web-filter? some ad-filter?

what you posted *really* looks like chunked encoding: