Error in posting

Paul Baker

I have found a couple times over the past couple of days that when posting, it spits out this:



Server Error in '/' Application.
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Runtime Error

[font=Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif ]Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

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Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.




What's going on here?

dandreae

I've had this problem before and it is normally related to posting.· For example, if you are writing a response that takes awhile, it will time out and give you a runtime error.· It is a good idea to write your long replies in a "Word" doc or "Note Pad".· This should solve the problem.

Dave


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Dave Andreae

Tech Support
dandreae@parallax.com
www.parallax.com

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Bruce Bates

Dave -

So long as one can turn OFF any HTML encoding, that's a fine idea. However, if one doesn't turn OFF HTML encoding, 10,000 pounds of unnecessary Smile spew forth into the file and end up in the forum output which is then sent through the email system. Luckily it doesn't foul up the forum based messages. At that juncture it's all but unreadable in the email stream. I usually just delete such responses as worthwile as they might otherwise be. This has become a real pet peeve with me, as I try not to use the forum based system unless absolutely necessary.

A better alternative might be to use Windows Notepad which can not create such Smile in the first place. Any other plain text editor (even the Stamp Editor) would work just as well.

Regards,

Bruce Bates