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By ryivhnn on
On one of my sites, recently upgraded to 5.18, if you attempt to paste anything into the comment box and then post, it goes to a "page not found" (which loads my background images but fails to load any content at all). This is a slight improvement from what the 5.14 was doing where it cried and exploded into a 500 Server Misconfiguration :)
If you type into the comment box and post, it's fine.
It's mainly causing angst for the roleplayers who may bang out a post while offline and then want to post it up later, no one else has really noticed as they tend to use the rest of the forum in the standard forum using way.
I'm at a loss to explain why it's doing that, I think it was fine prior to 5.14, and I can't recall when it started happening after I upgraded. The comment box is fairly bog standard unless bbcode and the associated wyiwyg bar affects it in some way, the only thing I can think of that may be an issue is the liquid wiki module as the way the filters have had to be set up to make it work have been messing with how some of the content gets displayed. Disabling the modules and the filters hasn't solved the problem though.
I am hoping to solve the problem with a pending upgrade to 6.12 (on a side note, can I go straight from 5.18 to 6.12 or will that destroy something?) but that's still a bit off as me being me, a redesign happened seeing as I needed to rewrite some of my code anyway :) In the meantime does anyone have any idea what could be causing the pasting problem and any possible solutions?
thanks! :)
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No idea hey. Well hopefully
No idea hey. Well hopefully when I (eventually!) get around to the rewrite and upgrade that will solve the problem.
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Well I've worked out (in a
Well I've worked out (in a very slow and painful fashion) that this is only problematic when there's a certain amount of characters being pasted in the post or that were already existing in the post (if something is being appended). I got up to 1118 characters before the 404 struck again. I'm not sure of the exact number as I stopped on a subheading and it refused to accommodate the next sentence after it. It would not paste the lot in one go, I had to do those characters in sections, or in this specific case I copied and pasted paragraph by paragraph, saving the post and then going to the edit tab again between pasting paragraphs.
Still got no idea what's causing it. Software engineering husband suggested that perhaps there was some buffer it was hitting the upper limits of. This could be it but the php memory limit is set to 32M and it's a bunch of text, how much memory do you need in all seriousness? But for the sake of argument I bumped it to 128M and it still wouldn't post the damn post, though by this time of night I was a little too irritated to be bothering to do a word count and clearing caches and cookies and all that when I should be recoding and want to be painting :) Still the users need a useable site while waiting for the upgrade and unfortunately this means being able to post or paste in things longer than 1118 characters now.
I shall keep investigating, or at least trying to work out what I should be investigating.
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