Cold Fusion error (March 2004)

March 2, 2004 6:54 AM

strange: I just went to metafilter.com and got the following error:
Invalid CFML construct found on line 277 at column 2801.

I then went to ask.metafilter.com and got no error
I then logged in at ask.metafilter.com and now the blue works fine

I tried this with both Mozilla and IE
posted by soplerfo to Bugs at 6:54 AM (13 comments total)

Same here - problem is only present when not logged in on the blue.
posted by BigCalm at 7:08 AM on March 2, 2004

I get this too with Epiphany on Linux. I've erased my metafilter.com cookies and I just cannot access www.metafilter.com at all - I just get the Coldfusion error. :/

MeTa and Ask seem fine.
posted by metaxa at 7:47 AM on March 2, 2004

I'm looking at the RSS and the latest post seems to have been a rather long y2karl-esque topic with lots of title attributes in the links. Perhaps a special character somewhere in there threw a cog in the gears?
posted by brownpau at 8:01 AM on March 2, 2004

Or not. It's all good again.
posted by brownpau at 8:08 AM on March 2, 2004

always blame y2karl
posted by angry modem at 8:38 AM on March 2, 2004

it appears to still be broken. I just got an email from a concerned reader with no account who wanted me to pass along a comment.
posted by angry modem at 9:09 AM on March 2, 2004

Same here. I'm fine if I'm logged in but get the error if I log out.

Must be something funky in the cached page.
posted by timeistight at 9:21 AM on March 2, 2004

ditto, re-log works
posted by clavdivs at 9:25 AM on March 2, 2004

You guys log out? ARE YOU INSANE?!!??
posted by ashbury at 10:14 AM on March 2, 2004

should be fixed now
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:19 AM on March 2, 2004

Cool.

What was it?
posted by timeistight at 10:36 AM on March 2, 2004

some bad html in a post (the first one done today)
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:56 AM on March 2, 2004

I'm gettting a Cold Fusion error on the Kerry/buyer's remorse? thread - I can't post a comment, and get a coldfusion error message.
posted by troutfishing at 6:45 AM on March 3, 2004