weird chron.com error
Peter B. Steiger
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an
invalid or unsupported form of compression
I got that when I went to their main comics menu at
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComics.mpl
... googling the error says that I should disable caching in my Firefox
config screen, which I did, and the error went away. But when I click on
any particular comic title, I get that same error. What up wid dat?
Using FireFox 3.01 on Linux, if that makes a difference.
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Jim Lahue
> Anybody else getting this?
>
> The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an
> invalid or unsupported form of compression
>
> I got that when I went to their main comics menu at
> http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComics.mpl
>
> ... googling the error says that I should disable caching in my Firefox
> config screen, which I did, and the error went away. But when I click on
> any particular comic title, I get that same error. What up wid dat?
>
> Using FireFox 3.01 on Linux, if that makes a difference.
>
Worked ok for me. Using Firefox 3.01 on Win XP (with NoScript blocking
scripts on the site).
Jim Lahue
Antonio E. Gonzalez
<see...@for.email.address> wrote:
>Anybody else getting this?
>
>The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an
>invalid or unsupported form of compression
>
>I got that when I went to their main comics menu at
>http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComics.mpl
>
>... googling the error says that I should disable caching in my Firefox
>config screen, which I did, and the error went away. But when I click on
>any particular comic title, I get that same error. What up wid dat?
>
>Using FireFox 3.01 on Linux, if that makes a difference.
That's happened quite a few times on FF 3.01 too, though it's
sporadic; along with the constant crashes, which I'm sure will soon be
addressed . . .
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nancy13g
wrote:
> Anybody else getting this?
>
> The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an
> invalid or unsupported form of compression
>
>
> ... googling the error says that I should disable caching in my Firefox
> config screen, which I did, and the error went away. But when I click on
> any particular comic title, I get that same error. What up wid dat?
>
> Using FireFox 3.01 on Linux, if that makes a difference.
>
It's been happening to me, too, over the past few days. (FF 3.0.1). I
even opened up *gag* IE to see if it worked there, but got only a
blank white screen where the comic should have been.
It seems to be one of those intermittent "it's still too early in the
morning in Houston for anybody to be fixing things" problems that the
Chron has, though, because when I go back to check at around lunchtime
(Eastern), all the strips are usually working properly.
satan'slittlesister
<nanc...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an
>> invalid or unsupported form of compression
>It's been happening to me, too, over the past few days. (FF 3.0.1). I
>even opened up *gag* IE to see if it worked there, but got only a
>blank white screen where the comic should have been.
The Chron has some problems with their caching (among other things).
Requesting the same page again from a single IP address will give you
an identical response -- regardless of switching browsers, the
presence of cache-control headers, or sometimes, cookies (kinda
fun/funny when visiting from a corporate net, see other people's
personalized pages).
If you're a real geek... try requesting one of the comics pages with
no User-Agent header, or merely an unusual one. What's the magic
character?
Also, http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Im-Dave,-Oh-Yeah!.aspx
sls
Jym Dyer
=v= I'm getting it in FireFox, Safari, and MSIE on Linux,
MacOS, and Windoze (for every combination of those that
exists). Something is definitely screwed up at their end.
<_Jym_>