Another possible forum bug (regarding PMs)

[8680]

Upon sending a personal message, I was, after a not unusual delay, redirected to an error page:

General Error

You cannot [or “may not”, “are not allowed to”, et cetera] access this file.

Please contact the administrator [there may have been a “if the problem persists” or “if you have any questions” here].

The message appears to have been sent despite the error.

[Iris]

That doesn’t sound like the verbatim message, but the case is that I cannot reproduce it here. What happens if you send another PM? (Feel free to spam me.)

Was there anything special about the PM? What URL threw that error anyway?

[8680]

That doesn’t sound like the verbatim message, ...

No, it isn’t. It’s the page as best as I can remember it, minus colors (I think it had the first line in red, the other lines in ~#159; typical prosilver light blue background (but it didn’t look like prosilver, more like maybe subsilver); red or green border).

What happens if you send another PM? (Feel free to spam me.)

Done. I got the “your PM was successfully sent” page.

Was there anything special about the PM?

It had a file attached, which I attached to the PM I sent you (and should probably be deleted once this is over).

What URL threw that error anyway?

I got there from the “Submit” button. (Or do you mean the URL of the error page? I don’t know that.)

[8680]

That doesn’t sound like the verbatim message, ...

No, it isn’t. It’s the page as best as I can remember it, minus colors (I think it had the first line in red, the other lines in ~#159; typical prosilver light blue background (but it didn’t look like prosilver, more like maybe subsilver); red or green border).

What happens if you send another PM? (Feel free to spam me.)

Done. I got the “your PM was successfully sent” page.

Was there anything special about the PM?

It had a file attached, which I attached to the PM I sent you (and should probably be deleted once this is over).

What URL threw that error anyway?

I got there from the “Submit” button. (Or do you mean the URL of the error page? I don’t know that.)

[8680]

That doesn’t sound like the verbatim message, ...

No, it isn’t. It’s the page as best as I can remember it, minus colors (I think it had the first line in red, the other lines in ~#159; typical prosilver light blue background (but it didn’t look like prosilver, more like maybe subsilver); red or green border).

What happens if you send another PM? (Feel free to spam me.)

Done. I got the “your PM was successfully sent” page.

Was there anything special about the PM?

It had a file attached, which I attached to the PM I sent you (and should probably be deleted once this is over).

What URL threw that error anyway?

I got there from the “Submit” button. (Or do you mean the URL of the error page? I don’t know that.)

[8680]

...And there’s another possible bug — I didn’t click “Submit” thrice or similar, and the “your post was successfully submitted” page didn’t load (I don’t know the exact error code, but I think it was in the 5xx range, and it felt like 503 or 504).

[Iris]

That doesn’t sound like the verbatim message, ...

No, it isn’t. It’s the page as best as I can remember it, minus colors (I think it had the first line in red, the other lines in ~#159; typical prosilver light blue background (but it didn’t look like prosilver, more like maybe subsilver); red or green border).

Nah, error pages used a built-in minimal style..

What URL threw that error anyway?

I got there from the “Submit” button. (Or do you mean the URL of the error page? I don’t know that.)

The error page does not exist on its own and its URL is that of whatever action that failed. I just wanted to know if the Submit URL had been generated wrong or something. Not very important anyway.

[Iris]

...And there’s another possible bug — I didn’t click “Submit” thrice or similar, and the “your post was successfully submitted” page didn’t load (I don’t know the exact error code, but I think it was in the 5xx range, and it felt like 503 or 504).

According to our logs you actually sent POST requests for this topic at 04:43:32 UTC, 04:44:04 UTC, and 04:44:43 UTC all to the same URL. The database maintenance task I was running at the time might have caused the delay that resulted in the posts being registered with the same timestamp around 04:47 UTC.