So I just recently upgraded to Synchronet 3.17x
I have been playing around with the WEBv4 and tweeking it for the outwest BBS
I love the fact that you can add sidebar menu items and error pages etc..
So I setup my own custom 404 error page Great work on the WEBv4 echicken. outwestbbs.com/404
btw I have since been trying to checkout everyones 404 page but I guess I'm the only one that has it set up:(


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Re: WEBv4
By: Denn to All on Sun Jan 27 2019 09:02 am

btw I have since been trying to checkout everyones 404 page but I guess I'm the only one that has it set up:(

I have plans for one, I just haven't put it in place yet. :)

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Re: WEBv4
By: DaiTengu to Denn on Sun Jan 27 2019 11:19 am

btw I have since been trying to checkout everyones 404 page but I
guess I'm the only one that has it set up:(

I have plans for one, I just haven't put it in place yet. :)

I did find a few BBS webpages today that also have a 404 page setup so I am not alone:)
outwestbbs.com/404

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btw I have since been trying to checkout everyones 404 page but I guess I'm t D>only one that has it set up:(

A former VADV32 BBS Sysop (he passed away a year ago from cancer) had
a "custom 404 page". There was a voice in the background, as the data
was printed, line by line...and it went like this...

"The requested document is totally not here!",
'No /404 here.',
"Even tried multi times.",
"Nothing helped.",
"I'm really depressed about this.",
"You see, I'm just a web server...",
"-- here I am, brain the size of the universe,",
"trying to serve you a simple web page,",
"and then it doesn't even exist!",
"Where does that leave me?!",
"I mean, I don't even know you.",
"How should I know what you wanted from me?",
"You honestly think I can *guess*",
"what someone I don't even *know*",
"wants to find here?",
"*sigh*",
"Man, I'm so depressed I could just cry.",
"And then where would we be, I ask you?",
"It's not pretty when a web server cries.",
"And where do you get off telling me what to show anyway?",
"Just because I'm a web server,",
"and possibly a manic depressive one at that?",
"Why does that give you the right to tell me what to do?",
"Huh?",
"I'm so depressed...",
"I think I'll crawl off into the trash can and decompose.",
"I mean, I'm gonna be obsolete in what, two weeks anyway?",
"What kind of a life is that?",
"Two effing weeks,",
"and then I'll be replaced by a .01 release,",
"that thinks it's God's gift to web servers,",
"just because it doesn't have some tiddly little",
"security hole with its HTTP POST implementation,",
"or something.",
"I'm really sorry to burden you with all this,",
"I mean, it's not your job to listen to my problems,",
"and I guess it is my job to go and fetch web pages for you.",
"But I couldn't get this one.",
"I'm so sorry.",
"Believe me!",
"Maybe I could interest you in another page?",
"There are a lot out there that are pretty neat, they say,",
"although none of them were put on *my* server, of course.",
"Figures, huh?",
"Everything here is just mind-numbingly stupid.",
"That makes me depressed too, since I have to serve them,",
"all day and all night long.",
"Two weeks of information overload,",
"and then *pffftt*, consigned to the trash.",
"What kind of a life is that?",
"Now, please let me sulk alone.",
"I'm so depressed."
);

Daryl

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Re: Error 404
By: Daryl Stout to DENN on Mon Jan 28 2019 12:16 pm

"The requested document is totally not here!",
'No /404 here.',
"Even tried multi times.",
"Nothing helped.",

That is the coolest of the 404 pages I have seen on any web server.

But I thought that was a synchronet thing from years gone by??

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: Error 404
By: Daryl Stout to DENN on Mon Jan 28 2019 12:16 pm

A former VADV32 BBS Sysop (he passed away a year ago from cancer) had
a "custom 404 page". There was a voice in the background, as the data
was printed, line by line...and it went like this...

Yep, the code for that can be found at: https://github.com/rkj/ieat/blob/master/iEat/public/404.html

DaiTengu

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Re: Error 404
By: Al to Daryl Stout on Mon Jan 28 2019 01:53 pm

Re: Error 404
By: Daryl Stout to DENN on Mon Jan 28 2019 12:16 pm

"The requested document is totally not here!",
'No /404 here.',
"Even tried multi times.",
"Nothing helped.",

That is the coolest of the 404 pages I have seen on any web server.

But I thought that was a synchronet thing from years gone by??

It was, but likely copied from the original: http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/web/root/error/404.html?revision=1.3

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On 01-28-19 12:16, Daryl Stout wrote to DENN <=-

btw I have since been trying to checkout everyones 404 page but I guess I'm

only one that has it set up:(

A former VADV32 BBS Sysop (he passed away a year ago from cancer)
had a "custom 404 page". There was a voice in the background, as the
data was printed, line by line...and it went like this...

"The requested document is totally not here!",

That one's been kicking around the Internet for years. :)



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Re: Error 404
By: Digital Man to Al on Mon Jan 28 2019 03:00 pm

Re: Error 404
By: Daryl Stout to DENN on Mon Jan 28 2019 12:16 pm

"The requested document is totally not here!",
'No /404 here.',
"Even tried multi times.",
"Nothing helped.",

I found about 3 or four synchronet webpages that use that as a scrolloing text window, it is pretty fun to read.

That is the coolest of the 404 pages I have seen on any web server.

I made my own 404 page from one of my favorite movies strange brew. outwestbbs.com/404

But I thought that was a synchronet thing from years gone by??

It was, but likely copied from the original: http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/web/root/error/404.html?revisio n=1.3

I'll go take a look at it.

... Ahhhhhhhh, I forget what I was going to say.

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btw I have since been trying to checkout everyones 404 page but I guess I'm the only one that has it set up:(

A former VADV32 BBS Sysop (he passed away a year ago from cancer) had
a "custom 404 page". There was a voice in the background, as the data
was printed, line by line...and it went like this...

"The requested document is totally not here!",
'No /404 here.',
"Even tried multi times.",
"Nothing helped.",
"I'm really depressed about this.",
"You see, I'm just a web server...",
"-- here I am, brain the size of the universe,",
"trying to serve you a simple web page,",
"and then it doesn't even exist!",
"Where does that leave me?!",
"I mean, I don't even know you.",
"How should I know what you wanted from me?",
"You honestly think I can *guess*",
"what someone I don't even *know*",
"wants to find here?",
"*sigh*",
"Man, I'm so depressed I could just cry.",
"And then where would we be, I ask you?",
"It's not pretty when a web server cries.",
"And where do you get off telling me what to show anyway?",
"Just because I'm a web server,",
"and possibly a manic depressive one at that?",
"Why does that give you the right to tell me what to do?",
"Huh?",
"I'm so depressed...",
"I think I'll crawl off into the trash can and decompose.",
"I mean, I'm gonna be obsolete in what, two weeks anyway?",
"What kind of a life is that?",
"Two effing weeks,",
"and then I'll be replaced by a .01 release,",
"that thinks it's God's gift to web servers,",
"just because it doesn't have some tiddly little",
"security hole with its HTTP POST implementation,",
"or something.",
"I'm really sorry to burden you with all this,",
"I mean, it's not your job to listen to my problems,",
"and I guess it is my job to go and fetch web pages for you.",
"But I couldn't get this one.",
"I'm so sorry.",
"Believe me!",
"Maybe I could interest you in another page?",
"There are a lot out there that are pretty neat, they say,",
"although none of them were put on *my* server, of course.",
"Figures, huh?",
"Everything here is just mind-numbingly stupid.",
"That makes me depressed too, since I have to serve them,",
"all day and all night long.",
"Two weeks of information overload,",
"and then *pffftt*, consigned to the trash.",
"What kind of a life is that?",
"Now, please let me sulk alone.",
"I'm so depressed."
);

god do I miss see that, I didn't hear the voice one, but I did like that (got
a few laughs in, every time I saw it)


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Al,

"The requested document is totally not here!",
'No /404 here.',
"Even tried multi times.",
"Nothing helped.",

That is the coolest of the 404 pages I have seen on any web server.

But I thought that was a synchronet thing from years gone by??

It was on a BBS running VADV-PHP. Unfortunately, because of a problem
with the FIDONet tossing software, generating corrupted MSGID data, I
had to abandon VADV, and go back to Synchronet. I will admit that
having the "connect via telnet" option right on the front page of
echicken's design is convenient.

Daryl

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Tony,

"The requested document is totally not here!",

That one's been kicking around the Internet for years. :)

Until I had seen it on this Sysop's BBS, about a year before he died,
I wasn't aware of it.

Daryl

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On 2019 Jan 29 12:45:00, you wrote to AL:

It was on a BBS running VADV-PHP. Unfortunately, because of a problem with the FIDONet tossing software, generating corrupted MSGID data, I

VADV wasn't generating "corrupted" MSGID data... it was reusing serial numbers within the three year lifespan specified by the technical documentation... in other words, it was using a very poor algorythm for the serial numbers... that poor algorythm lead to system's that rely on the MSGID being unique over three years to drop the message as a dupe... it was nothing more than that...

if VADV was using a serial number data file where it simply grabbed the number from the data file and incremented it, then the problem was the operator doing system restorations and overwriting the data file with old data so the numbers were reused again...

the reason i let you know about the problem was so you would be aware of it and
not be wondering why some of your posts were not being distributed over the whole network and why you weren't getting responses that you may have been expecting...

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Mark,

the reason i let you know about the problem was so you would be aware of it ML>not be wondering why some of your posts were not being distributed over the ML>whole network and why you weren't getting responses that you may have been ML>expecting...

From what Steve Winn (current developer) noted, "the entire code of
the tosser (VFIDO) would have to be completely redone to fix the
problem". And, apparently, he has too much going on in his life to
devote to doing such.

Daryl

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On 01-29-19 12:45, Daryl Stout wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-

Tony,

"The requested document is totally not here!",

That one's been kicking around the Internet for years. :)

Until I had seen it on this Sysop's BBS, about a year before he died,
I wasn't aware of it.

Oh, OK. Must be at least 15 years since I first saw it.


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On 2019 Jan 30 13:58:00, you wrote to me:

the reason i let you know about the problem was so you would be aware
of it not be wondering why some of your posts were not being
distributed over the whole network and why you weren't getting
responses that you may have been expecting...

From what Steve Winn (current developer) noted, "the entire code of
the tosser (VFIDO) would have to be completely redone to fix the
problem".

quite frankly, bullshit... i added a MSGID routine to an app i had never seen before that someone else was attempting to work with... it was quite simple to add another pascal unit with the necessary routines and then use the one routine that was needed... that app hasn't produced any dupes since... the same
thing could easily be done in any other language... hell, just use a simple serial number that increments on each use and that'll fix it as long as the operator doesn't overwrite the data file containing the serial number data when
they continually restore backups over and over ;)

And, apparently, he has too much going on in his life to devote to
doing such.

that is understandable...

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