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Search is broken . . .

Aug 17, 2011 12:21PM PDT

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It is working here...
Aug 17, 2011 3:19PM PDT

Can you check again and see if it worked itself out?

John

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Hmmmmm . . .
Aug 18, 2011 2:28AM PDT

Same, same, in Firefox and IE8. I cleared the cache in both, no change.

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I came in from another direction . . .
Aug 18, 2011 2:31AM PDT

from my public profile. It shows what I've just put in, (the other one didn't), but all the pages are the same.

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I clicked your link in your first psot
Aug 18, 2011 9:01PM PDT

and got them all. All 12000 of them!

Are you saying that whichever method you use all the pages show the same posts?

Mark

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Yep . . .
Aug 19, 2011 3:07AM PDT

It shows all the pages and the total posts. But if I select page 2, or 3, or whatever to the end, each page shows what is on the first page. It appears to show the next pages, but the posts from the first page are shown on all the pages up to and including page 1207.

If you select page 2 does it show different posts?

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Yep.
Aug 19, 2011 6:26AM PDT
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Here's page 1 . . .
Aug 19, 2011 11:15PM PDT
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What browser is this Wayne?
Aug 19, 2011 11:24PM PDT

I don't recognise it from your images.

But in any case it doesn't matter if this happens in all browsers. Notice how your url doesn't add any 'post' numbers after the "=Coryphaeus&rpp=10"

I wonder if this a javascript issue. When you click the links in my post, do you see the correct listings?

Can you add, &rpp=10 after Coryphaeus?

What has changed on your system since it last worked? Any blockers installed, or anti-virus, anti-malware?

Mark

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Good questions . . .
Aug 20, 2011 2:39AM PDT

I just clipped the image down to fit the page, but it's Firefox 3.6.2.

And I noticed the &rpp=10. When I click your link the address strips off the &rpp=10, and I get the same page. Stand by while I use IE8.

Tick, tick, tick, . . .

This is weird!! In IE8 I click the second link you provide and IE strips off the &rpp=10, and the same page shows. I just added the &rpp=10 to the URL and clicked go and BOTH browsers strip it!!

I use Avast free. Wait!! Let me disable it for a test.

Tick, tick, tick, . . .

Nope, I disabled it and tested, and again both browsers strip the &rpp=10.

OK, I'm lost. It's obviously me, but what would affect both FF and IE8 in exactly the same way? And when I preview this post, something is adding the "amp;". I didn't type it.

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Hosts file?
Aug 20, 2011 5:26AM PDT

I'm not sure it is a problem with your profile because I can see all your pages, (well, the two I tried, pages 1 and 2). So it has to be something at your end.

I've never seen a url get stripped like that before.

(By the way, that amp is a bug. Preview shows the html code for whatever the character is going to be, but Submit shows the proper character).

Hosts file. Do you know where yours is? System32\Drivers\Etc and Hosts, no file extension, just Hosts. Open that in Notepad, (make sure not to "Always use this program for this type of file"), but remember if you re-save it, make sure you "Save as file type" - All Files, and strip of any extension Notepad might add on.

Any entry in here gets redirected to wherever it is sent to, eg;

127.0.0.1 www,google.com

That would send any browser search for Google back to the local computer, effectively a blank browser page.

So, any entries for? -

htt p://www.cnet.com/8706-4_1-0-1.html?username=Coryphaeus htt p://www.cnet.com/8706-4_1-0-1.html?username=Coryphaeus

I doubt it could work this way but if so, every time the browser sees "htt p://www.cnet.com/8706-4_1-0-1.html?username=Coryphaeus" it redirects to "htt p://www.cnet.com/8706-4_1-0-1.html?username=Coryphaeus", even if there are additional characters after your name.

In fact the more I think of it, the more unlikely it becomes.

Tell us what other security apps you use, and also, what has changed on this computer since this last worked.

Mark

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Quick notes...
Aug 21, 2011 4:06AM PDT

Wayne,

Several quick notes:
1.) Your profile pages work for me across browsers & computers, and my own profile pages work for me, so it doesn't appear to be a wide-spread issue.
2.) The &rpp=10 stands for "results per page" and controls how many posts are shown at a time, not which page of results you see.
3.) To my knowledge, the &rpp=10 should not be automatically removed regardless for browser, Javascript, et cetera.

What puzzles me, though, is that if this were exclusively on your end, you wouldn't get "12061 of 12065" but still see results 1-10. For that page, can you include the displayed URL in your screenshot?

John

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Cannot View Search Items

I hope this is not a problem they consider fixed. In Downloads, I did a search on the terms "journal ledger." It showed 17, but I could only see 10. The next page would not display the other 7.

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Not related...
Aug 31, 2011 4:18PM PDT

In this case, you're referring to the actual search pages, whereas Wayne's case was really with the profile (not search) pages.

When you tried to view the next page, what happened? One key difference is that the search pages use AJAX to bring in the next set of results, so a Javascript failure could cause such an issue. It does work for me, so browser information would also help track down the source.

Let us know.
John

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Cannot View Search Items

Since IE8 was the cause of many BSOD for this computer, Toshiba Satellite A105-S4002, I kept IE7. However, due to some debugging steps I took earlier this year, my IE7 may have enough controlls on it to slow it down since it takes a long time for pages to load. Also, I may need updates that do not show on Microsoft Update (i.e. Root Certificates).

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Fixed, (at long last)
Oct 8, 2011 10:45PM PDT
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Uh . . .
Oct 8, 2011 10:56PM PDT
Silly