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"an error occurred and your request could not be completed."

Last post 07-02-2009, 11:57 PM by RichardM. 10 replies.
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  •  4/4/2009 5:38:27 AM 812781

    "an error occurred and your request could not be completed."

    I've been doing fine with the new voting system until today. I now get :
    "TopWebComics.com
    We are currently unable to serve your request
    We apologize, but an error occurred and your request could not be completed.
    This error has been logged. If you have additional information that you believe may have caused this error please report the problem here.
    CCR WebDesign "

    Perhaps it is because my laptop is running MAC OS X?
    I'm guessing this because
    a) in the last few days, my laptop had no problem voting with the new system but today won't do successful vote with whatever combinations I try (Firefox 3.0.8 and Safari get same error)
    b) I then tried the apartment's shared computer (which uses Microsoft Windows) and Firefox 3.0.8 and was able to vote successfully.

    I'm at my weekend IP but I don't think that is the problem (since voting doesn't seem to be tied to cookies)
  •  4/4/2009 6:53:04 AM 812782 in reply to 812781

    Re: "an error occurred and your request could not be completed."

    I've got the same thing. Nobody can get in to see the voting page because of the server access message quoted above!  I use a tabletop computer linked to a landline and broadband network
  •  4/4/2009 9:26:02 AM 812784 in reply to 812782

    Re: "an error occurred and your request could not be completed."

    what about now?
    Richard M.
    Grimfang
    "Whisper"
    Xaeraes
  •  4/4/2009 9:56:58 AM 812785 in reply to 812784

    Re: "an error occurred and your request could not be completed."

    RichardM:
    what about now?


    Still getting the same error with Firefox and Safari.
  •  4/4/2009 11:33:16 AM 812786 in reply to 812785

    Re: "an error occurred and your request could not be completed."

    Ok, I recreated the problem on windows by turning off cookies.  I was getting the cookie id without setting a value, but for whatever reason some users aren't accepting cookies?  Anyways, I changed where the key is getting generated, and I think it should work for you now.

    The key here is that a lot of users might enable settings to make themselves anonymous on the internet, many of those settings, default or not, will render themselves unable to vote on TWC, because in order to weed out bots, they specifically have to "not" be anonymous, twc doesn't need to know "who" they are, but it has to know they're a computer on the internet, and that they're the same computer shown the first votepage, the first click, and the 2nd click, if the site detects anywhere that the computer is different, not the same, or anonymous at any of those 3 steps, it prevents the vote from counting.

    Having said that, hopefully this fixes the issue, let me know.


    Richard M.
    Grimfang
    "Whisper"
    Xaeraes
  •  4/4/2009 4:08:14 PM 812787 in reply to 812786

    Re: "an error occurred and your request could not be completed."

    Thank you.
    I succesfully voted. The usual javascript was sufficient, did it without cookies.

    "Your Vote was successfully registered, you can vote again in 7 hours"
  •  4/6/2009 4:45:48 AM 812789 in reply to 812787

    Re: "an error occurred and your request could not be completed."

    Hi!

    I just tried to vote but the following error has been preventing me:

    TopWebComics.com

    We are currently unable to serve your request

    We apologize, but an error occurred and your request could not be completed.

    This error has been logged. If you have additional information that you believe may have caused this error please report the problem here.

    I can't vote, and I can't view the site itself since it gives me the same error. I've read everything about the topic of being "anonymous" but I hardly think that's the case. It was working fine yesterday but not today... unless you changed something in the meantime.

    But really, it this means we will have to instruct everyone to change some odd configuration on their Internet Explorer or Firefox (I've tried both and was barred with the same error) this beats the purpose of voting. Voting is something that should be simple. You shouldn't have to perform a hardcore configuration process on your browser until you are able to.

  •  7/2/2009 9:11:23 AM 813293 in reply to 812789

    Re: "an error occurred and your request could not be completed."

    We're getting the same problem from all the votes coming from the page we created for community voting: http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6640&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

    Is there a way to prove all the votes coming from this page are not automated? Thank you!

    Bagels
  •  7/2/2009 9:50:08 AM 813294 in reply to 812789

    Re: "an error occurred and your request could not be completed."

    aylash, sorry, I didn't get the email notification, did the problem fix itself, does it still happen? Honestly it shouldn't be a problem anymore...

    Alsobagels, is the problem only occuring for mac users, or what? I was able to vote just fine using windows xp & IE 8 so I need to understand "who" experiences the problem so I can figure out whats going wrong.
    Richard M.
    Grimfang
    "Whisper"
    Xaeraes
  •  7/2/2009 11:10:10 PM 813296 in reply to 813294

    Re: "an error occurred and your request could not be completed."

    It's quite strange, as soon as you addressed the issue it was fine, now it's back all of a sudden. Not a mac/windows problem, as most of the users are using IE. Is it a problem with all of the votes coming from that one page, and the bot suspecting it of being automated? We're trying to get a hub going here, so any help would be great...
  •  7/2/2009 11:57:13 PM 813297 in reply to 813296

    Re: "an error occurred and your request could not be completed."

    No, I don't think so, I've had some pending updates that had installed but I didn't want to reboot, they've been sitting there for about 2 weeks, I restarted the server in case those were causing random issues. Let me know if it stays fixed now.
    Richard M.
    Grimfang
    "Whisper"
    Xaeraes
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