Using Opera to enter this site

[dilbert1]

Does anyone else just see a load of gibberish when going to http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk, when using the Opera web browser?

 

Forums are fine, seems to be just the first page.

[Michael Browne]

Link is fine for me, using Firefox

[barracad]

Wow yes that is some serious jibberish! I'll see what we can do.

[Lula]

It is ok for me too, Firefox on the lappy and when I use Safari on the Ipod, it is ok.

[WebMaster]

Think I've got Opera on another machine - I'll check it out

[Lula]

nerd

[WebMaster]

shush you:p

 

By 'not working', I guess you mean it's showing random gibberish, as oppose to just looking a bit wonky? I get the same thing in Opera and Konqueror, but not FF, links, curl, wget etc.

 

I wonder if it's a case that Opera can't handle the gzipped content (we use mod deflate), although that would apply to /forum too. I'll work on it

[barracad]

Front page just contains a load of jibberish (gibberish?) - forum appears fine. I'm using Opera Mobile if that makes a difference.

 

No problems in FF.

[dilbert1]

Yep, it's showing random gibberish for me as well.

 

I thought it was down to the gzip compression you're using as well, until I noticed that you're also compressing /forum, which is fine.

 

Only thing I can notice that might be vaguely relevant (and this is a long way from me thinking it actually is relevant) is:

 

When accessing /, the http headers come back as:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

 

Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:07:23 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/4.4.4-8+etch4

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4-8+etch4

Set-Cookie: 239a6729b6c570e31979ebd8af3396f8=-; path=/

Set-Cookie: mosvisitor=1

Content-Encoding: gzip

Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT

Last-Modified: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:07:23 GMT

Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate

Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0

Pragma: no-cache

Vary: Accept-Encoding

Keep-Alive: timeout=3, max=10000

Connection: Keep-Alive

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/html

 

And when accessing /forum:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:07:28 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/4.4.4-8+etch4

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4-8+etch4

Cache-Control: private

Pragma: private

Content-Encoding: gzip

Vary: Accept-Encoding

Keep-Alive: timeout=3, max=10000

Connection: Keep-Alive

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

 

Only potential difference that I can see is that when going to /forum, a charset is being set in the Content-Type header, but when going to /, it isn't. Since this feels like a content-type type problem, that could be relevant.

[WebMaster]

I've specifying the charset, but that hasn't made a difference (I was doubtful). I've also tried disabling mod deflate, in case Opera couldn't handle gzipped content. No luck there either.

 

What did work though was to change the UserAgent in Opera to that of Firefox. so we must have something server-side (either in Apache or Joomla) that is trying to be clever. I'll keep looking

[WebMaster]

Got the Opera problem fixed - it was an issue with how Joomla handled gzipping for clients that identified themselves as Opera

[Lula]

Got the Opera problem fixed - it was an issue with how Joomla handled gzipping for clients that identified themselves as Opera

 

I've specifying the charset, but that hasn't made a difference (I was doubtful). I've also tried disabling mod deflate, in case Opera couldn't handle gzipped content. No luck there either.

 

What did work though was to change the UserAgent in Opera to that of Firefox. so we must have something server-side (either in Apache or Joomla) that is trying to be clever. I'll keep looking

 

 

Did you see that flying right over my head

 

What is all this about mice then?

[dilbert1]

Thanks for that - I can confirm that it's now working in Opera for me as well.

 

One more thing to think about next site I write.

[WebMaster]

What is all this about mice then?

 

Well everybody else puts details of their battles in their sigs; thought I'd put the result of my long running battle with some mice in mine

[Lula]

LOL you doofus, so come on, tell all

[WebMaster]

They're illegally squatting in my garage. I didn't mind too much at first, but then I found they'd built a nest under the bonnet of my car. Don't want them chewing the wires etc, so I decided it was time for them to go.

 

Unfortunately they're pretty clever. I've tried a few different traps, but they always get the food without getting caught. Tried one of those things that emit a high pitched noise too, but that didn't seem to do much (although it may well be repelling teenagers from) - could be that they're taking the cheese out of the trap and putting it in their ears.

 

I tried mint, mothballs, and cloves - apparently they don't like the smell of those. I don't want to use poison, as I'll then have dead mice rotting away (plus I can't bring myself to kill them)

 

The only other method I know of is fox's urine - it scares them away. Unfortunately, catching a fox is hard enough, let alone persuading it to urinate while you hold a pint glass under it.

 

I've conceded defeat.

[dilbert1]

Buy a cat??