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Ironside
01-18-2012, 18:13
I've got a very curious bug here. Trying to access the Backroom from my computer will cause a http 404 error message to show up.

It's the only page where my computer does this, and I can access the BR from another computer, so I'm trying to figure out what's wrong. I can add that I had the comp disconnected for a while and when logging back, the start page to this forum had a changed and broken link. I'm not sure if it's related.
TinCow
01-18-2012, 18:18
What's the URL of the page that causes a 404?
Ironside
01-18-2012, 18:31
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?19-Backroom

It's the normal one correct?
TinCow
01-18-2012, 19:04
Yes, that is the normal one.

What browser are you using on the computer that gets the 404, and what browser on the computer that can access it?
Pannonian
01-18-2012, 21:05
Try a hard refresh (Ctrl+F5).
Ironside
01-18-2012, 22:18
Yes, that is the normal one.

What browser are you using on the computer that gets the 404, and what browser on the computer that can access it?

IE 9 on both. I can bypass and get it to work by using Firefox, so the problem is probably in IE on my end. Still it's very worth to track down this bug.

Ctrl F5 didn't work.
TinCow
01-18-2012, 22:36
IE 9 on both. I can bypass and get it to work by using Firefox, so the problem is probably in IE on my end. Still it's very worth to track down this bug.

On the computer that has this problem, did you do an upgrade from IE 8 to IE 9?
Ironside
01-19-2012, 19:49
On the computer that has this problem, did you do an upgrade from IE 8 to IE 9?

Nope. Well I did, but it was ages ago.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/ went broken at the same time.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/index.php still works. I suspect they're related.
Ironside
01-21-2012, 09:04
Should've tried that earlier. Cleaning out the temporary internet files did the the trick.
Pannonian
01-21-2012, 13:31
Should've tried that earlier. Cleaning out the temporary internet files did the the trick.

Doesn't hard refresh do that?
Ironside
01-22-2012, 09:52
Doesn't hard refresh do that?

Appearently not in this case. :shrug:
Pannonian
01-22-2012, 13:35
Appearently not in this case. :shrug:

It's been quite a while since I last used IE, so it might do things differently. On Firefox, Chrome and Opera, Ctrl+F5 AFAIK clears the cache for the page and reloads.