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I cannot post questions on Wolfram Alpha anymore. Even if I ask "5+1" the answer is "This WolframAlpha server is temporarily unavailable. Click here to try another server."- Even if I delete all cookies like suggested on the forums by someone who also had this problem Does someone have some other tips?
are altering headers that our server doesn't like. So I would expect that this is a more general problem than those extensions when using proxy services or accessing the site from certain networks that utilize proxy services. But in general if your requests are getting routed through anything that is modifying headers of the requests we may have a problem.
Hello all -I've been doing some troubleshooting this morning with WA customer service, including dropping into developer tools in the web browser. As I said before, I'm a relatively secured corporate environment which worked fine up until a few weeks ago. I've sent some logs over and I think they're picking through them. Questions about the status of json.js and other details of the server-client back and forth have come up.
The WolframAlpha team is aware of several issues that users are experiencing due to extensive recent updates, and we are hoping to resolve things quickly. Please patiently bear with us until everything is back to normal.
In the meantime, if youd like to provide any specific feedback about what youre experiencing, it would always be appreciated. You can contact in...@wolframalpha.com with whatever issues you are seeing, steps to reproduce, OS/browser, account information (if applicable), etc.
I've confirmed that it's a problem with my work network. I was able to connect my laptop to a separate wifi network and everything worked normally. I then connected directly to the work network and tried a new query using the same browser window and I got the syntax error.
I am a teacher in Bangkok, Thailand, and I am have been having the same problem as George and Dustin for the past 3 days. We often use your website in class, but we have not been able to for the past few days. The website pages load fine. It just can't calculate anything....not even "2 + 3". I get the same message George posted above. Sure hope somebody figures out what's going on soon.
Using Chrome here and it has not worked this week. I just tried a second ago. This is in san diego CA. We have a bunch of T1 connections. So its interesting that nothing has been announced at all. I only created this account to say this. I do use it almost everyday to do quick multi unit calcs for work. now I'm going to have to go back to using unit translation lookup tables and a regular old HP calculator. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.
I am near San Francisco CA. Same results with Firefox and Chrome. I noticed that the "Computing" animation does not show at all, the error is immediately displayed.One interesting thing is that I was briefly able to query with both Firefox and Chrome for about 1 minute, however it is now back to the same error message.I am starting to think it might be a problem with the firewall at my work because my phone works correctly when browsing directly to the site.
To help them, each of you who are having issues should perhaps post your location (and your ISP? and your IP address? --the latter you may not wish to pose for privacy reasons)) so that they have some additional information to debug this.
This may or may not be related, I'm getting the error message to say the input cannot be parsed on every entry, even the site examples. Can anyone confirm if this is a site problem or something at my end please.
Still working fine for me (Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, though the browser should not make any difference). I believe that WA has server colocations in two different places. It is possible that there are issues with one of them--where are you located? However,
Recently I am told that information unknown to the user is sent to Wolfram Servers. Is there any truth behind it ? I was told that more than just an IP address of the user is sent to them and that they catalogue all info and built a database from it. Even if you do not click on "internet connectivity option" info is sent to them.
The answer to (a) and (b) are blatantly clear because the Wolfram Corporation takes control over the computation through their own servers. So they can hear, see and infer every bit of what's happening. For (c) is fishy what is going on and how the data is being used by Wolfram Corp.
Just think of what can be deduced from I.P. data, USER ID and MACHINE ID AND HELP FUNCTION BROWSING EVERY TIME YOU USE Mathematica. This is metadata that Wolfram Corp has no real hesitation admitting to gathering. Wolfram Corp can profile user and possibly predict what she will do ? a not so hypothetical example. what if we know it was sold to research division who control and make policy. Based on user patterns here and there simple info will help us predict whether they will do this or that ... Banks, federal banks, Bank of England ? whether they will raise interest rates or cut them, other policy institutions.
There is a setting in Mathematica that controls whether it can access the internet. Go to Preferences -> Internet Connectivity and uncheck "Allow the Wolfram System to access the Internet". Disabling this will disable some features that depend on internet access, such as WolframAlpha queries.
This can be controlled in Preferences -> Internet Connectivity -> Wolfram Alpha Settings. The default setting is "Ask before sending". With this setting, Mathematica will present a dialog box like the following before sending the information:
It does not seem to matter if you substitute incorrect or nonsensical values for the mathid and license fields, or omit them completely--you will get your result anyway. Presumably this means that WRI does not really care about the contents of these fields, so perhaps their reason to include them was as a tool for defending against possible DOS attacks on their server.
The obvious implication of this is that one should not search for sensitive search terms with Internet access enabled. However, the likelihood of revealing any confidential information through searches in the Mathematica documentation seems realistically quite remote, unless you have a tendency to make rather unconventional searches.
The DemonstrationsTools` package, which supports the authoring of demonstrations, contains vestigial code for the DemonstrationTemplateOpen function (which opens the authoring template notebook) that obtains the template from the Wolfram server, if it does not exist on the local machine, using a query that includes the $LicenseID and $MachineID as part of the URL.
The paclet manager, which is responsible for documentation updates, providing the data sources for the *Data functions, and updates to some packages (e.g. CUDALink`), sends the following to the paclet server when it communicates with it:
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