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"The page crashed"

"The page crashed"

Posted Jan 3, 2013 0:56 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: FreeBSD 9.1 released by Lukehasnoname
Parent article: FreeBSD 9.1 released

Pardon the digression, but could you fill us in as to what "the page crashed" means? We've received no crash reports here, so it wasn't a site code crash. But we don't like having people lose their work typing in comments, so I'd like to know what happened so we can maybe try to address it.


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"The page crashed"

Posted Jan 10, 2013 0:06 UTC (Thu) by Lukehasnoname (subscriber, #65152) [Link]

Sorry to mislead you, it wasn't LWN's fault.

The web proxy at work occasionally prompts for HTTP authentication erroneously, and I can't escape/hit back to my text. It takes me to a 403, and my comment is gone.

Happens on Reddit and Slashdot, too. Thanks for the concern!

"The page crashed"

Posted Jan 10, 2013 11:56 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

You could try using https (https://lwn.net/). That way, you can be sure the proxy will not interfer, unless the proxy does a MITM attack on the SSL/TLS connection. If it does MITM, you have bigger problems (check the certificate to be sure; for me, it is showing as being from GeoTrust).

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