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Dan42
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:00 pm Reply with quote
oookaaaaaayy....

It looks like the master javascript file got corrupted for unknown reasons; there were some garbage characters at the end. So literally all the javascript that controls the site was just broken. To make matters worse, that javascript file has a filename that varies based on its content so it can be cached eternally. So even after fixing the corrupted file, everyone was still getting the cached, corrupted version. As they say, "There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." Well, I bypassed the cache problem by slightly modifying the master javascript file, thus giving it a new (uncached) filename.

TLDR: it's fixed
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mdo7



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:03 pm Reply with quote
Dan42 wrote:
oookaaaaaayy....

It looks like the master javascript file got corrupted for unknown reasons; there were some garbage characters at the end. So literally all the javascript that controls the site was just broken. To make matters worse, that javascript file has a filename that varies based on its content so it can be cached eternally. So even after fixing the corrupted file, everyone was still getting the cached, corrupted version. As they say, "There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." Well, I bypassed the cache problem by slightly modifying the master javascript file, thus giving it a new (uncached) filename.

TLDR: it's fixed


Yeah thanks, I think we can lock this thread now.

To any moderators reading this: Since this issue is already fixed, can I request to have this thread lock?
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nobahn
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:04 pm Reply with quote
Thanks, Dan.
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Cyclograph



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:07 pm Reply with quote
edit: nevermind, forced cache flush and now working!

All UI of the top bar is broken here too... server: moeka-chan.
At this moment, using an ancient, obsolete XP system with old Firefox (19.0.2), but was working yesterday.
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