July 9th, 2020 Site Update Tech Thread

[IBJoel]

Hello everyone,

We released a small site update today. Please let us know in this thread if you encounter any technical problems or irregularities below!

[Just This Once...]

Topic pages hang with Adguard on Safari enabled. Maybe that was the intent, but I will wait until normality is resumed.

[IBobi]

Topic pages hang with Adguard on Safari enabled. Maybe that was the intent, but I will wait until normality is resumed.
Not sure what you mean, can you elaborate? Is it still happening? Please indicate your browser, device, mobile or desktop version, etc.

[Just This Once...]

MacOS 10.15.5, Safari 13.1.1, with AdGuard 1.7.4.

Topic pages load ok, individual threads return a blank white page. Pausing ad blocker renders full page but with Safari Developer Console revealing a plethora of security errors linked to Google Syndication:

Blocked a frame with origin "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com" from accessing a frame with origin "https://www.pprune.org". Protocols, domains, and ports must match.

[skylimey]

Seeing a php error when going 'back' Error: Cannot unset string offsets in ..../vbseo/includes/functions_vbseo_vb.php on line 1262

[IBobi]

Seeing a php error when going 'back' Error: Cannot unset string offsets in ..../vbseo/includes/functions_vbseo_vb.php on line 1262

You mean using the back button in your browser? I am not showing that happening in Chrome or Firefox, on the full desktop version of the site. What's your browser, device, and are you using desktop or mobile skin?

[IBobi]

MacOS 10.15.5, Safari 13.1.1, with AdGuard 1.7.4.

Topic pages load ok, individual threads return a blank white page. Pausing ad blocker renders full page but with Safari Developer Console revealing a plethora of security errors linked to Google Syndication:
Looks like an adguard issue. We don't support users blocking ads, I'm sorry.

[dogsridewith]

This: =...Topic pages load ok, individual threads return a blank white page...

Started July 9 and continuing until I just let blank page sit for quite some time w/ furious displays of top and side ads.
(Windows Explorer, w/ Webroot, installed by repair service a year ago, running as usual. Same problem trying chrome, which indicated Webroot enables/uses an adblock function which I cannot control)
Also found captcha will not work when trying to send this problem via the message form of Contact administrator...so some pprune members may have no way of communicating this blank page stall. (This w/ google cookie enabled, which has always enabled captcha.)

[skylimey]

Sorry, my bad...

Go here: https://www.pprune.org/rotorheads-23/

Click the 'Aircrew Forums' link and it happens every time.

Chrome on Win10 Pro.

I can't reproduce it on other Win 10 nor Linux (not helpful I know), but on this machines it's 100% reproduce able....
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/699x220/annotation_2020_07_12_1035351_35ec4fc3b6b33b63ad794c53d8cf9a 7e98a11848.jpg
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/562x368/annotation_2020_07_12_103535_200cce0151453b3fec50131a6457765 eb0a60354.jpg

[cavuman1]

I had no joy logging in for nearly five hours on 9 July. When I granted run permission for ajax.googleapis.com on NoScript 11.0.4, the problem was resolved. What exactly was the nature of the update?

Thanks,

Ed

[IBJoel]

I had no joy logging in for nearly five hours on 9 July. When I granted run permission for ajax.googleapis.com on NoScript 11.0.4, the problem was resolved. What exactly was the nature of the update?

Thanks,

Ed

What was the error you received wen trying to log on? I'll ask tech about that

[IBJoel]

Sorry, my bad...

Go here: https://www.pprune.org/rotorheads-23/

Click the 'Aircrew Forums' link and it happens every time.

Chrome on Win10 Pro.

I can't reproduce it on other Win 10 nor Linux (not helpful I know), but on this machines it's 100% reproduce able....



I would try bypassing your cache: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache

But it's possible that your browser on Windows 10 Pro may have extra content-blocking software or something.

[skylimey]

Nope, tried that... I don't suppose the code throwing the error gives any clue? There's obviously something amiss in the code, something unexpected not getting caught, and knowing what that was would be a clue where to look.

I can't find any examples of the file to read online.

BTW - it's ONLY the aircrew fora that are showing this, all the others work fine?

M

[cavuman1]

IBJoel, I appreciate your concern. I did not receive an error message - instead, when presented with the Login screen, I selected Login, and - Bupkis!

-Ed

[IBJoel]

Nope, tried that... I don't suppose the code throwing the error gives any clue? There's obviously something amiss in the code, something unexpected not getting caught, and knowing what that was would be a clue where to look.

I can't find any examples of the file to read online.

BTW - it's ONLY the aircrew fora that are showing this, all the others work fine?

M

if you do incognito/private browsing on your Win 10 Pro machine, does it still happen?

[skylimey]

Incognito works fine.... Hmmm, what would cause that?

BTW also broken on safari on my iPad. Probably works ok incognito.

[IBJoel]

Incognito works fine.... Hmmm, what would cause that?

BTW also broken on safari on my iPad. Probably works ok incognito.

It would seem to be a cache/cookie issue, since incognito is cache-less