one doozy of a page

February 11, 2003 5:08 PM

I got sent here in trying to find the post on stupid baby names, and got one doozy of a page as a result. Does this look extremely messed-up to the rest of you? I'm on Netscape 7.0 on Mac OS 9.
posted by meep to Bugs at 5:08 PM (5 comments total)

I get this:

Invalid CFML construct found on line 286 at column 9.
ColdFusion was looking at the following text:


The error occurred in C:\metafilter sites\www.metafilter.com\static\22236_bottom.cfm: line 286
posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:11 PM on February 11, 2003

Yes, that's what I see, in addition to all the other crap (like the header up there twice).
posted by meep at 5:15 PM on February 11, 2003

it's a problem with the caching system.

I'm writing flat files for the older threads, but when apparently an illegal html chunk shows up, the way I'm recording output fails. I just need to put a check in there for the illegal html that is showing up, and drop it before writing out flat files.

I just fixed this one by hand, but I'll add the code so this doesn't happen in the future.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:22 PM on February 11, 2003

Looks fine to me, although I often get similar errors lately. Reloading the page usually gets rid of them. Mozilla 1.2.1/Win XP Pro.
posted by dg at 5:22 PM on February 11, 2003

Looks fine in ie6, xp.
posted by Hildago at 5:47 PM on February 11, 2003