#2441 when lite.piclens.com down, gallery won't load
Version: I'm running a gallery3 site from HEAD of gallery3.git
PROBLEM: This morning I noticed that my gallery3 site wouldn't load at all. I tracked it down to the Slideshow plugin trying unsucessfully to load http://lite.piclens.com/current/piclens_optimized.js, which as apparently blocking the whole gallery from loading. It would appear that lit.piclens.com had an IP address change, and sadly the TTL for their A resource record is 24 hours, meaning that my ISP had the old IP address cached and my local machine was unable to fetch the javascript, causing gallery3 to fail to load.
EXPECTED RESULT: I don't expect the gallery to be 100% dependent on a 3rd party site. I would expect the gallery to still load, minus the 3rd party functionality, perhaps even with a message.
SOLUTION: The Slideshow module should probably include some checks to make sure that lite.piclens.com is responding before including a javascript include that will cause the gallery to fail to load. I included a very basic patch on this forum thread:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/92956
That may not be the right solution, and didn't actually help me personally because the server where my gallery3 site is installed was able to resolve the name properly, but my local machine couldn't. However, something like that would probably still protect against a complete site outage.
Thanks!
Nathan
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