Geek Girls Make a Point at Linux Conference

The link is trying to go to an Lxer registration page and gives an error.

Not sure how to help, I checked the link and takes me directly to the article on their site.

When I click it takes me to:

https://secure.lxer.com/registration/?rPage=login&url=http:/...

I'll try logging out/in

edit: Nope And other links I tried work fine...

edit again: Now it decided to work.....

/me is confused.

Here is a copy of the link I have for it.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_14478986

The link leads me to a blank page. :-)

Try this:

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_14478986 (mercurynews-dot-com-slash-business-slash-ci_14478986)

If that doesn't work, just go to

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ (mercurynews-dot-com-slash-business)

And click on the story -- if it's still on the front page by Sunday or thereafter. The Merc is a little screwy about their links. Honestly, I don't know why they'd want to make it easy to get eyeballs on their pages . . . sheesh.

both links go to a blank page. I think they have blocked the 115.87.xxx.xxx part from the (their ) world . Has happened before with other links.

Thanks to all, and don't bother about it.

Guess what............. all of a sudden, I got through ( after 6 blanks, a few security warnings and one freeze )

/home/nikkels is also confused.

You have my sincere apologies for your troubles and I am very very glad you finally got to read it..

/home/scott is confused for you..

There is certainly something unusual going on, but it is not on the LXer side.

The URL Quoted is fake.

https://secure.lxer.com/registration/?rPage=login&url=http:/...

There is no "secure.lxer.com" subdomain, and secondly we do not offer https ssl service.

If you want I can pull the story off the newswire.

In my case, clicking on the "Full Story" link, (http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=132425), resolves to:

https://secure.lxer.com/registration/?rPage=login&url=http:/...

Message displayed on the non-loaded page is "The service is not available. Please try again later.".

Is this the third time in as many days that LXer couldn't redirect a click to a story?

Hmm...I am going to talk to Bob about this.

Strange. It works for me...

It works for me, too.

However, I have had trouble with the San Jose Mercury News Web site in the past around the issue of relinking stories. As I mentioned on another thread, it's beyond ironic that a newspaper would make it hard for people to visit their site to read their stories (and prevent people from doing what they REALLY want -- read their Web ads).

I work for a newspaper that is part of the chain that includes the Merc. I will ask the IT guys there WTF when I get to work today.

Larry Cafiero

The Merc has always been weird with links. I quit using their stories for brand x a long time ago because of their shape-shifting URLs.

There is certainly something unusual going on, but it is not on the LXer side.

The URL Quoted is fake.

https://secure.lxer.com/registration/?rPage=login&url=http:/...

There is no "secure.lxer.com" subdomain, and secondly we do not offer https ssl service.

If you want I can pull the story off the newswire.

Scott,

The story seems possible to access. I remember trying two links in succession where the first failed and the second just worked. So I would suggest keeping it and letting those that have problems see if the links on various threads work for them.

Txt.

Works fine here.

First click failed, sending me to that bogus "secure.lxer.com" thing.

Then I enabled JavaScript, and the second click worked.

Then I disabled JavaScript, and the third click failed.

But the fourth click worked, after I changed nothing.

There's something at "secure.passport.mnginteractive.com" that's redirecting back to LXer. Here is the HTTP response header:

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:46:39 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) X-ATG-Version: ATGPlatform/7.1p2 [ DASLicense/0 DPSLicense/0 DSSLicense/0 PortalLicense/0 ] Location: ht tps:// secure.lxer.com /registration/?rPage=login&url=http%3A%2F%2Flxer.com%2Fmodule%2Fnewswire%2Fview%2F132425%2Findex.html&eRightsSessionExpired=true&forced=true Content-Type: text/html Via: 1.1 redline3 (Juniper Networks Application Acceleration Platform - DX 5.3.1 0)

(note cleverly added space in "Location:" URL, to prevent LXer parsing it into a link)

This is being sent back from https://secure.passport.mnginteractive.com/mngi/servletDispa...

BRAIN DEAD

I can reproducte the problem with Gus3's information.

It seems to be a problem with the Adservers of these guys: http://www.medianewsgroup.com/Interactive/ They run the website.

And for the record:

Wireshark to see where it's coming from, and "about:cache" in Firefox to read it, since it came through HTTPS.