the ColdFusion finger

February 11, 2003 10:10 AM

Weird. I can access MeFi just fine through status.metafilter.com or metatalk.metafilter.com, but www.metafilter.com has only been giving me the ColdFusion finger for a few days.

Error Occurred While Processing Request
The system has attempted to use an undefined value, which usually indicates a programming error, either in your code or some system code.
The error occurred in C:\metafilter sites\www.metafilter.com\Application.cfm: line 4

2 : clientmanagement="Yes"
3 : sessionmanagement="Yes"
4 : setclientcookies="Yes">
5 :
6 :


Anyone else ?
posted by XiBe to Uptime at 10:10 AM (4 comments total)

delete cookies and try logging back in.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:20 AM on February 11, 2003

Maybe it would be a good idea to add an "If you are posting to Bugs, please clear your cookies and log back in first" to the MeTa post page? It just seems like there are an awful lot of problems posted that are solved by deleting cookies.
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 11:18 AM on February 11, 2003

Ignoring something squiffy with the browser (as sometimes it does happen) it might be a good idea to fix the root of the problem - or code defensivily so that dodgy cookies don't prevent the user from viewing the page.
posted by ralawrence at 11:33 AM on February 11, 2003

Good I new.
Damn, now if I can correctly read error messages... grmbl...

weird thing is, it happenned on 2 computers... mmmh....
let's say this did not happen, mmmmmmkay ?

thanks!
posted by XiBe at 3:47 PM on February 11, 2003