Incorrect Forum Display

[bob3160]

I'm getting an increasing amount of notifications that when opened display the following:




I'm using my laptop not my Smart Phone or tablet
What's happening

[CraigB]

I get that page loading text problem now and again and a page refresh usually fixes it for me, it's never consistent though and it only happens once a week or so for me, maybe it's related to the slow forum responses we've been receiving

[Asyn]

Never seen that, but it could help to use http instead of https...

[SpeedyPC]

Never seen that, but it could help to use http instead of https...

+1

[DavidR]

I'm getting an increasing amount of notifications that when opened display the following:

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I'm using my laptop not my Smart Phone or tablet
What's happening

Never seen that, but it could help to use http instead of https...

I have never seen that either, it may well be down to the https and the issue of mixed content.

@ Bob
Have you changed any settings in your laptop's browser relating to mixed content ?
Most browsers can be set to only display the secure content, so I don't know if A) this would have this impact or B) if you have actually applied that setting.

[bob3160]

My browser settings haven't changed in months.
This has been happening for the past week.

[DavidR]

Has it always been related to https URLs in the forums ?
What happens if you do a hard page refresh or if that doesn't work changing the url to http ?

[bob3160]

Has it always been related to https URLs in the forums ?
What happens if you do a hard page refresh or if that doesn't work changing the url to http ?

Haven't tried that. These are notifications generated by the forum of a new post.

[iroc9555]

I have also had them running IE 8. Not with FF though. Like Craigb said refresh page will fix it.

[essexboy]

I have noticed that on HTTPS links only

[bob3160]

Has it always been related to https URLs in the forums ?
What happens if you do a hard page refresh or if that doesn't work changing the url to http ?

Haven't tried that. These are notifications generated by the forum of a new post.

Changing the link to HTTP fixes the problem.
Something the forum should do automatically in their notifications or, fix the problem.

[DavidR]

Has it always been related to https URLs in the forums ?
What happens if you do a hard page refresh or if that doesn't work changing the url to http ?

Haven't tried that. These are notifications generated by the forum of a new post.

Changing the link to HTTP fixes the problem.
Something the forum should do automatically in their notifications or, fix the problem.

I though it might resolve it, we have certainly seen this https URL in notification before. There doesn't appear to be any consistency in this either as not all notification links are https. I don't know if a user happens to be using something like https always (don't know the proper name) it forces the topic to be https. So my guess is that the notification would also use https in the notification link.

Essentially the forum notification email software needs always use http, but I don't know if there is that degree of configuration in the SMF forum software.

[MikeBCda]

I use only the regular HTTP addy, but have on rare occasions seen more or less the same here in Firefox ... usually, but not always, a page reload clears it up, particularly if I clear the cache first.

One other possibility occurred to me, at least in my own case ... my graphics controller is an antique Intel 82845-series onboard chipset, for which updated drivers haven't been available in ages, and it has problems with one game in which it'll occasionally lock up and eventually give me an error message that a DLL driver for it failed to operate, and the whole system then drops back to 4-bit 640x480.  Everything's good as new if I reboot ... I've never run into that problem in any other context, so I assume the game's trying to call a function that the controller never heard of and there's nothing wrong with the controller itself (or its drivers), and probably totally unrelated to the forum display thing some of us are occasionally seeing.

[SugarD-x]

Seems I waited too long to post the other topic!

For whomever is an administrator, if the forum can be set up to support https:// mode, then it should solve half the problem. From there it's just a matter of resolving the notifications email issue, which should either display one or the other...and preferably https:// because of the added security it provides, even if it's not very secure in this form.

[DavidR]

Far from providing added security, it doesn't, it just encrypts the traffic. I would say that it is worse to have it on https as the web shield doesn't scan https content. So you effectively lose the protection of the web shield, whilst that may not necessarily be an issue on the forums, but web sites aren't immune from being hacked.