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liam
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116 Posts
10/02
Posted - Sep 5 2003 : 5:12PM
like astroknight. lots of his reviews refuse to load. Some other people too, some of their reviews just will never load.

for example, astroknight's review of fashionistas will not load.

Saki
At-Large

2087 Posts
11/99
Posted - Sep 5 2003 : 5:27PM
What operating system and browser version are you running, liam? I just checked on Windows XP/Internet Explorer 6 and can load astro's review just fine.

- Saki [faqs]

Bill All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

5334 Posts
6/00
Posted - Sep 6 2003 : 5:11PM
liam,
Are you running a firewall? I recently upgraded from dial-up to DSL, from the free version of Zone Alarm to Zone Alarm Pro and added a router as a hardware firewall.

It appeared that the Zone Alarm upgrade caused me some problems at ADT. I wasn't seeing some avatars, some banner ads weren't appearing, etc...

Being that I trust ADT, I turned off most of the cookie control (except for "Block third party cookies" and ad blocking for ADT. All of my problems have gone away.

liam
Member

116 Posts
10/02
Posted - Sep 8 2003 : 9:33PM
I got winxp with ie6. ya, run a firewall but my setup is the same version firewall as last year when i had no problems. I guess the prob is at my end. But as a sample I pulled up all of Saki's reviews of Evil Angel Movies. some come up, some don't.

12 listings ("won't" indicates that it won't come up):

Crack Her Jack 1
Belladonna's Evil Pink (Won't)
Rocco: Animal Trainer 12 (Won't)
Fresh Meat 8
Joey Silvera's Service Animals 13 (Won't)
Weapons of Ass Destruction 2
Flesh Hunter 2
Rocco Super Moto Hard
John Leslie's Dog Walker (Won't)
Fashionistas, The (Won't)
Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex For Women 2 (Won't)
Fresh Meat 10


Saki
At-Large

2087 Posts
11/99
Posted - Sep 9 2003 : 10:24AM
Sounds like your firewall software may have an issue with the URL format of the reviews, notably the extended characters (':,! and so forth). Look at the URL below...see how %2c takes the place of a comma in Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women 2, The?

http://adultdvdtalk.com/reviews/read_review.dlt/sku=4628/ultimate-guide-to-anal-sex-for-women-2%2c-the.htm

That's the only commonality I can see between the reviews you can't load and the reviews you can. The ones you can load don't have a special punctuation mark in the title...

Maybe you can poke around your firewall software to see if you can add an exception for adultdvdtalk.com?

- Saki [faqs]

 
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8011 Posts
9/99
Posted - Sep 9 2003 : 11:35AM
I suppose I should read this forum more often. I had no idea this was a problem.
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8011 Posts
9/99
Posted - Sep 9 2003 : 11:42AM
I bet the problem has more to do with a redirect that's occuring in the background. If your browser is not allowing page redirects for soem reason then this will happen.

Can you post the exact URL of a review page that will not load?

liam
Member

116 Posts
10/02
Posted - Sep 9 2003 : 7:04PM
well the url never really seems to change. It's like perpetual limbo. so for example I'm at this URL (saki's evil angel reviews):

http://adultdvdtalk.com/reviews/search_reviews.asp

I attempt to go to the fashionistas link url, which my browser identifies as:

http://adultdvdtalk.com/reviews/read_review.dlt/sku=5054/fashionistas,-the.htm

PS: I turned off firewall completely, same problem.

Saki
At-Large

2087 Posts
11/99
Posted - Sep 9 2003 : 7:43PM
Can you read anyone else's reviews of the same titles you reported "won't" come up? For example, can you read any of the reviews of The Fashionistas?

- Saki [faqs]

liam
Member

116 Posts
10/02
Posted - Sep 9 2003 : 8:55PM
You have something saki :)

It seems to be specific to the movie.

Fashionistas will not come up no matter the reviewer. Same goes for Ass worship 2 and ass worship 1.

But there is no problem bringing up ass worship 3 or ass worship 4.

Saki
At-Large

2087 Posts
11/99
Posted - Sep 9 2003 : 9:55PM
That's because Ass Worship 1 and 2 are listed as "Jules Jordan's Ass Worship" and "Jules Jordan's Ass Worship 2" while the other two are simply "Ass Worship 3" and "Ass Worship 4".

Drew, as an example, Ass Worship 4 looks like this in the IE status bar:
http://adultdvdtalk.com/reviews/read_review.dlt/sku=4176/jules-jordan's-ass-worship.htm

But if I copy the shortcut or click through, the address bar reads:
http://adultdvdtalk.com/reviews/read_review.dlt/sku=4176/jules-jordan%27s-ass-worship.htm

I think this might have something to do with the expansion of ' to %27s due to URL encoding...

- Saki [faqs]

Edited by - saki on 9/9/2003 10:06:35 PM

Saki
At-Large

2087 Posts
11/99
Posted - Sep 9 2003 : 10:09PM
liam, can you try to load the problematic pages in another web browser, like Opera to see if it's something specific to your IE setup?

- Saki [faqs]

Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8011 Posts
9/99
Posted - Sep 9 2003 : 11:26PM
The URL encoding is actually happening in the page source. IE reformats the URL in the status bar so it's more human readable.

The read review page is expecting the URL to match a particular format. If that format is not matched exactly then it HTTP 301 permanent redirects to the proper URL. It's this "page transition" that is sometimes a problem depending on the browser's configuration.

In any case it's really frustrating that these personal firewalls are such pieces of shit. Sure, they serve a purpose but now web developers not only are required to code for various browsers but also need to take into consideration all of the various "features" of the software packages out there.


Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8011 Posts
9/99
Posted - Sep 9 2003 : 11:37PM
When you click this link above the read review page realizes that the URL is in the old (technically invalid URL) format and redirects your browser to the equivalent new page at:

http://adultdvdtalk.com/reviews/read_review.dlt/sku=5054/fashionistas%2c-the.htm

My guess is that your browser is configured to not allow page transitions. In IE 6 on Win2k this option is configurable from the Tools>Internet Options>Advanced Tab-Browsing section:Enable Page Transitions. This box should be checked.

liam
Member

116 Posts
10/02
Posted - Sep 10 2003 : 11:39AM
Yeah i got that and page transitions is checked. it's prolly just some glitch. i need to reformat OS or something.



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