I strongly suspect that this is really the same issue as I reported in #2798227, and also reported in #2797972.
Discussions around the net (e.g. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&p=6578275 ) suggest that the breakage is being caused by something to do with javascript and the absence of a cookie when subdomain links are fetched. (E.g. because of noscript or adblock in Firefox). This fits with test requests also breaking with curl/wget, and also when pages are hit directly from an RSS reader, which doesn't go via the main page and may not run javascript.
This has been going on for 4 or 5 days now, and there doesn't seem to be any way to contact /. except via this bugtracker, which seems to be pretty much ignored....
Maybe the dip in ad revenue will be noticed...
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Just a me too on this. I noticed it a couple of days ago and it's really quite irritating. I use Firefox dynamic bookmarks at work and Thunderbird at home, and short of going via the front page, nothing loads. I just get a "document contains no data" error.
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I strongly suspect that this is really the same issue as I reported in #2798227, and also reported in #2797972.
Discussions around the net (e.g. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&p=6578275 ) suggest that the breakage is being caused by something to do with javascript and the absence of a cookie when subdomain links are fetched. (E.g. because of noscript or adblock in Firefox). This fits with test requests also breaking with curl/wget, and also when pages are hit directly from an RSS reader, which doesn't go via the main page and may not run javascript.
This is definitely not just a Firefox/noscript issue, as http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php/topic,163386927.0.html says that it's happening for IE users also.
This has been going on for 4 or 5 days now, and there doesn't seem to be any way to contact /. except via this bugtracker, which seems to be pretty much ignored....
Maybe the dip in ad revenue will be noticed...
I confirm the problem.
But it looks like there is a problem in a script parsing the URL. It's about URL ending with a slash.
Doesn't work:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/05/30/0327219/Human-Language-Gene-Changes-How-Mice-Squeak
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/05/30/0327219
Works:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/05/30/0327219/Human-Language-Gene-Changes-How-Mice-Squeak/
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/05/30/0327219/
Just a me too on this. I noticed it a couple of days ago and it's really quite irritating. I use Firefox dynamic bookmarks at work and Thunderbird at home, and short of going via the front page, nothing loads. I just get a "document contains no data" error.