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Halifax--lad
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Widget not updating

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Hi Neil

when the widget attempts to connect to update it says there has been a error, any idea what this error is?
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Post by Neil »

Works fine for me.

I even tried modifying the update interval from 8 hours to 5 seconds and both Yahoo! Widgets updated fine.

Anyone else expriencing the same problems as Halifax--lad?

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Post by Halifax--lad »

still getting it this morning

An unknown error has occured

all other widgets are working fine
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No problems with me either
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Post by Neil »

Halifax--lad wrote:still getting it this morning

An unknown error has occured

all other widgets are working fine
Is that the only contents of the error message?

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yup the only additonal bit is the url back to this site to check to see if there is any news
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Post by Neil »

Ok,

The piece of code that generates that message is:

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else if (contents.substr(0, 5) != '<?xml'){
	if (!loaded && !downloadOK){
		widgetError("Unknown error");
	}
	main_window.visible = true;
	alert("An unknown error has occured.\n\nPlease try again. http://boinc.mundayweb.com may have news about the problem.");
}
This would imply that sometimes the XML feed is generating any content. I'll put a note in the news items to see if anyone else is experiencing problems.

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Post by Halifax--lad »

Definitely something wrong at your end I think, your site went down/not accessible I tried updating the widget manually and got the error message I expected to get (unable to connect or whatever it says when there's no connection), then when the site came back online I got the normal error message I have been getting.
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Post by RDaneel »

Neil wrote:Ok,

The piece of code that generates that message is:

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else if (contents.substr(0, 5) != '<?xml'){
	if (!loaded && !downloadOK){
		widgetError("Unknown error");
	}
	main_window.visible = true;
	alert("An unknown error has occured.\n\nPlease try again. http://boinc.mundayweb.com may have news about the problem.");
}
This would imply that sometimes the XML feed is generating any content. I'll put a note in the news items to see if anyone else is experiencing problems.

Neil.
I've been using your widget for the last 4 to 6 weeks and have started
getting this error message just within the last week.

I can't tell if it occurs on every update or just some. I can force a
manual update and get no error message.
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Post by Halifax--lad »

What ever the error was it has gone away now, all is working normally
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Post by Neil »

Ok - I didn't do anything!

Neil.
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