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Attachment download problem?

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:14 pm
by Geraint
If I look at the following posting:

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,15866.0.html

I am able to download the second attachment but not the first - I get the following message:

Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.


This may of course be a caching/proxy issue but if it is then its not at my end.  Can anyone else see the first attachment?

Thanks

Geraint

Re: Attachment download problem?

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:17 pm
by brad
They are both working for me...

Re: Attachment download problem?

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:29 pm
by Geraint
Thanks for the quick response Brad

I'm still getting the problem (many hours after I first encountered it) on the first link but if I add a spurious parameter to the query (e.g ";x=3") I can get the download.

I have now tried what I should've tried before which is to clear my browser cache - it then worked ok  :-[

The next question (OT) is how do you setup Apache to tell a browser not to cache a bad download?

Geraint

Re: Attachment download problem?

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:39 pm
by Rochen
Could you please give this a shot now? :)

Re: Attachment download problem?

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:06 pm
by Geraint
It worked after I had cleared my cache.  Rather stupidly I hadn't checked the response headers before clearing the cache so I can't tell you what expiration date was set or what response code my browser was getting from the server.

I did, however, notice that the download counter on the forum was incremented with each failed attempt to download so there was a request being made to ther server, which I'm guessing was telling my browser (Firefox 1.07) that the content hadn't changed.

Geraint