Re: [cgiirc-general] Mysterious problem with cgiirc

[<res...@ve...>]

On 25 Apr 2004 at 0:44, res...@ve... wrote:

> On 25 Apr 2004 at 0:30, res...@ve... wrote:
> 
> > I have set up a CGI:IRC interface at 
> > http://buttersquash.net/irc for the #altreligionscientology and
> > #scientologylies channels on Undernet.  I personally have no trouble
> > using these and most people who use them report the script works
> > flawlessly, but some people, for no obvious reason, are able to 
> > connect fine, and watch what is going on on channel, but they can't
> > type anything, and they eventually get disconnected for ping timeout.
> 
> Hate to reply to myself so quickly, but here's a more full description.
> They get the window, they can watch what's going on, they type their
> input into the proper window, it disappears when they hit return, just
> as it should, but they never see what they typed appear on the screen,
> and nobody else sees it, either.
> 
> It appears that everyone who has this problem is using IE 6, and that
> Mozilla Firefox works fine.  I'm completely baffled, as no place I try it from
> has this problem, and every time I use it myself, it works perfectly, 
> either with IE or Mozilla Firefox.
> 
> However, most of the people that I set this interface up for are fairly
> clueless.  (The others are behind restrictive firewalls.)

Final comment, I promise.  (I should have waited to post the last 
comment until I had more of a grasp on the situation, but it's tricky
giving remote tech support, as it were, on a problem I don't have
myself.  And it's better to post three annoying messages in a row 
than get responses, and then clarify.  This problem appears to
apply to commands, such as /quit, as well.  You type them, 
hit return, they disappear as if all is well, but nothing happens.

I apologize if this is a FAQ but I didn't see anything obviously
along these lines in the archives or the docs.

rob