I just wrote this nice long reply to a post and LOST IT DUE TO THE DAMN SMILIES!!!

Can we either:

a) Make the default that smilies DON'T convert to graphics.
or
b) Allow more then 3 graphics in a post.

I tried to click back to edit, but POOF, the response field is empty. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Grr,
Daniel

 

The same thing happened to me. After that I started writing all my long posts in Word first and them copying then to the page.

 

Daniel,

I do not believe that what you experienced is the default behavior of the forum software. I am able to create a message, add 50 smilies, get the message there were too many smilies and then click the back button and the form contents are still there. This may be a setting in your browser software that enables this, but I am not sure where...

Steve

 

Alright, I'm hastily looking through advanced options now. It only happens when I've been typing for a long time and then I have to hit back.

I think it may have to do with a session time-out value or maybe some cache-timeout in IE. On short posts (quick time), it never happens.

You know, when you have to click "refresh" because the page has already expired...I don't know if the board throws in any metadata statements on cache expiry times or such.

Daniel

 

There is only one meta-tag on the post reply page...

<meta http-equiv="MSThemeCompatible" content="Yes">

This particular tag has nothing to do with caching...

 

Alrighty...its probably a nice MSIE feature that Microsoft has given us. I'll just have to remember to copy my long posts to a clipboard. heheh...

Thanks Steve..
Daniel

 

Gah, wow, I recovered it. :) Cheers for Linux firewall gateways.

If any one is interested, here's the proxy script I pushed the refresh request through to steal the packet payload. :) Should work under any perl environment, just make sure you have Bundle::LWP and URI installed.

Daniel

[code]
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

my $PORT = 3128;

use HTTP::Daemon;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use URI::Escape;

# If Browser disconnects suddenly
$SIG{PIPE} = 'IGNORE';

my $SRV = HTTP::Daemon->new( LocalPort => $PORT );
die "Can’t start server ($@)" unless defined $SRV;
print "Server listening at port $PORT\n";

my $UA = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$UA->agent("perlproxy/1.0");

while (my $conn = $SRV->accept) {
while (my $request = $conn->get_request) {
my $resp = $UA->simple_request($request);
details($request) if $resp->is_success;
$conn->send_response($resp);
}
$conn->close;
}

sub pkv {
my ($key, $value, $indent) = @_;
$indent ||= 0;
my $COLS = 20;

$dots = $COLS - length($key) - $indent - 2;
print " " x $indent,
"$key ", "." x $dots, " ", "$value\n";
}

sub details {
my $req = shift;
my $cookies = $req->header("Cookie");

pkv "URL", "http://" . $req->uri->path;
pkv "Method", $req->method;

if($cookies) {
print "Cookies:\n";
dump_form(map { uri_unescape $_ }
split /;\s*|=/, $cookies);
}

if($req->header("Referer")) {
pkv "Referer", $req->header("Referer");
}

if($req->method eq "GET") {
print "Parameters\n" if $req->uri =~ /\?/;
dump_form($req->uri->query_form);
} elsif ($req->method eq "POST") {
print "Parameters\n";
dump_form(map { uri_unescape $_ }
split /&|=/, $req->content);
}

print "=" x 50, "\n";
}

sub dump_form {
my @form = @_;

while(my ($key, $val) = splice(@form, 0, 2)) {
pkv($key, $val, 4);
}
}
[/code]

 

Now if only I knew as much about cars as I do computers, all would be good!

Daniel

 

hey man... after that happened to me a couple of times, i did this:
write what i wanted with pics/smilies/ect,
then before i click "submit reply", i highlight my whole message, right click and select "copy"
then, if it doesnt go thru, and dissapears when you click back.. just right click again & select "paste"
you can do it over and over till you get it correct.

hope this helps..

brooks *copy and paste* m.

 

Daniel...UGH
Don't punish the rest of us because you are smilie retarded hehehe

CA

 

Could somebody please explain to me what Dan was saying. Iam lost ...I thought I was hot ***** cuz I can finally post pics

 

i was about to ask how you know so much about computers, but then i read your profile
Occupation: Senior Systems Engineer
that explains it

 

damn, musta been one heck of a reply.

how bout some linkage?

 

Its my last big reply in the huge blown motor thread...

Daniel

 

HI!... When that happens, hit "RELOAD" and it comes back. It happens to me all the time. Never lost a post yet.