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Oct 11, 2002, 3:04 AM
Paul
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Oct 11, 2002, 3:04 AM
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When I make a post, sometimes when I hit my back button, I get a white page full of binary garbage. Any ideas why?
Oct 11, 2002, 3:20 AM
Jag
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Oct 11, 2002, 3:20 AM
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Yeah, I had that once and I was able to reproduce during the same session several times by doing a back. Fairly spooky I thought while I was at trying to figure out what was going on Shocked...

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Oct 24, 2002, 4:36 PM
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I've also seen that before - I suspect it has something to do with IE + the advanced editor screwing up, but I'm not certain.
Jason Rhinelander
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Nov 3, 2002, 1:06 PM
ellipsiiis
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Nov 3, 2002, 1:06 PM
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Is this what you're referring to? I was using the basic editor, not advanced.

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Nov 3, 2002, 1:40 PM
Jagerman
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Yup, that's it. It was on our forum here, right?

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I was using the basic editor, not advanced.


Uh oh - that means it isn't the advanced editor. Frown

Perhaps it's the gzipping messing up (not sending the proper gzip header, perhaps?). In truth, I really have no clue at all where this is coming from.
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Nov 3, 2002, 2:16 PM
Wil
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Nov 3, 2002, 2:16 PM
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I think it's a mod_gzip issue, yes. I've seen this on our corporate site a few times and the webhost there use mod_gzip.

However, I nailed it down to a problem with our web cache (Squid) not preserving headers correctly, but I'm not sure. I googled a lot for this and there seemed to be an issue with earlier versions of Squid not preserving headers it didn't understand correctly and one of those being the gzipped header.

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Nov 4, 2002, 5:08 AM
Eraser
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Nov 4, 2002, 5:08 AM
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I've also witness this issue with mod_gzip as an intermittent problem.

The developers claim the problem is usually confined to IE5+ but suggested clearing any leftover files as defined in the: 'mod_gzip_temp_dir' path then restarting Apache.

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