I can't access mefi from home

November 21, 2001 9:36 PM

I've been having a strange problem when I try to visit metafilter from home. [more]
posted by drezdn to Bugs at 9:36 PM (4 comments total)

When I type www.metafilter.com or metafilter.com into the address bar on my home computer I get

"Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Diagnostic Information
ODBC Error Code = 37000 (Syntax error or access violation)


[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 3: Incorrect syntax near '='.



The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFQUERY), occupying document position (21:2) to (21:39).


Date/Time: 11/21/01 21:34:29
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; MSN 2.5; Windows 98)
Remote Address: 129.89.7.201




Please inform the site administrator that this error has occurred (be sure to include the contents of this page in your message to the administrator)."

I found that I can still get to the main page by typing (random jumble).metafilter.com

Does anyone know what I could do to stop having this happen?
posted by drezdn at 9:40 PM on November 21, 2001

Possibly data in your cookie is bad and the script is trying to use that data to do a select on the database. Since the data is bad, the SQL statement is bad.

This is just a hunch: try deleting your cookies completely, closing your browser, coming back to MetaFilter and logging in.
posted by perplexed at 10:00 PM on November 21, 2001

What perplexed said.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:03 PM on November 21, 2001

Yeah that was the problem thanks for the quick help!
posted by drezdn at 10:15 PM on November 21, 2001