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[Jade]

Hey there everyone!

Well, it's been about a week now since I noticed this problem and I decided to address it in case the problem is affecting anyone else. I use Opera primarily to click nowadays, and lately when I have been opening 200 tabs like I regularly do, I've been getting 403 errors (It comes with a lovely picture of Octillirage and says "'Go, Octillery! Use Octazooka!'
Octillery's ink has stopped you from viewing this page." on it). It isn't just one of two but like... 10 or 20. So I started to open 100 more regularly and that made the error pop up less often but still frequent and even more so lately it has been showing up even when I'm only opening a couple tabs (I.E. opening up 21 tabs produces at least one 403 error). It seems to happen in intervals as well - opening 100 sometimes produces no 403 errors... and then about five or ten minutes down the line of clicking, they are everywhere.

I'm not really certain what the cause of it may be, because it happens even in the middle of the night (between the hours of midnight, right after reset way into 6 pm when there usually is only 500-600 people on), thats why I'm thinking it might be my computer but I'm not sure what would cause it? My computer never had trouble opening this many tabs before, so I wasn't sure if something changed on the site to stop agreeing with my computer perhaps?

It's not a terrible problem or anything, because its easy enough to reload those tabs and click through them still, but it does get a little frustrating.

Anyways, any help or suggestions is appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Edit: Also, I don't seem to be getting the same errors on my laptop (I'm not on it very often for this game though except when I'm at work usually). So that is also leading me to believe it is my desktop.

Second edit: It has now been brought to my attention that I am also receiving these errors in the multitudes on my laptop as well. And my laptop is widely different from my desktop. The only similarity is Opera and the preferences I've changed which follows Ride The Lightning's guide.

This post has been edited by Jade: Aug 12 2010, 06:41 AM

[Retrospect]

I suppose it's possible that it's a problem on your end.

Have you messed with any advanced settings at all to increase the number of connections you make to the server at one time? You may want to set it to default and see if that resolves the issue.

[Kimis]

I get them all the time now too, too bad Opera doesn't have a Reload All Tabs option.

[Kimis]

I get them all the time now too, too bad Opera doesn't have a Reload All Tabs option.

[Kimis]

I get them all the time now too, too bad Opera doesn't have a Reload All Tabs option.

[Professor Magnol...]

I get them all the time now too, too bad Opera doesn't have a Reload All Tabs option.

There is a button you can add that will do this, unfortunately I don't remember where to go to get it. My boyfriend showed me once but it doesn't seem to help with reloading tabs that error out like that. At least not for me.

[Professor Magnol...]

I get them all the time now too, too bad Opera doesn't have a Reload All Tabs option.

There is a button you can add that will do this, unfortunately I don't remember where to go to get it. My boyfriend showed me once but it doesn't seem to help with reloading tabs that error out like that. At least not for me.

[Professor Magnol...]

I get them all the time now too, too bad Opera doesn't have a Reload All Tabs option.

There is a button you can add that will do this, unfortunately I don't remember where to go to get it. My boyfriend showed me once but it doesn't seem to help with reloading tabs that error out like that. At least not for me.

[Katya]

I'm getting them like crazy right now, more 403's than clickable pokes.

[nook]

I have the same problem, but I use Firefox.

[Elito]

The errors you get are not connected in any way with errors Jade gets. Errors you get are server lag, and are fixed now, I think.
Jade has a different kind of problem I believe.

[Running On Ice]

I do believe it's a site-wide problem. I got them quite a bit while I was clicking tonight. Also, I don't know if it's the same thing that's causing it, but sometimes when I try to go on a certain thread in the forums, it always redirects me to the main page of the forums.

[Simple]

I get them all the time now too, too bad Opera doesn't have a Reload All Tabs option.

There is a button you can add that will do this, unfortunately I don't remember where to go to get it. My boyfriend showed me once but it doesn't seem to help with reloading tabs that error out like that. At least not for me.

Ctrl+F12 (or Tools > Preferences) > Advanced > Shortcuts > Keyboard Setup > "Opera Standard" click Edit > Expand "Application (defaults)" > Click New > Under "Input context and shortcuts", enter "Platform Windows-Unix-MCE, F5 ctrl" > Under "Actions", enter "Reload all pages" > Click Ok > Click Ok

Not a button, but Ctrl+F5 is good too, found the info some time ago on some forum.

[unexistence]

Same problem on Chrome. It was probably just the mass lag.

[Jade]

I suppose it's possible that it's a problem on your end.

Have you messed with any advanced settings at all to increase the number of connections you make to the server at one time? You may want to set it to default and see if that resolves the issue.

Well I followed Ride the Lightnings guide so yes, I increased it to 105. Not sure what the default originally was anymore but it never caused me a problem and I've been using Opera two months now. And if it were the connection problems wouldn't I be getting timed out rather (meaning the 504 error, or even a connection error?)?

Also, to everyone else: This problem has been happening to me all week not just yesterday (though I'll admit my thread was poorly timed). It COULD have been affected by what BB was doing with the two servers perhaps, depending on how long he was working on them?

[Retrospect]

The reason I was thinking it was the number of connections you make is because the server will detect when an IP is causing too many connections at once and will block the IP to prevent botting. You're not blocked, but you are getting forbidden/permission errors. That's why I thought about that. I don't know what the default for Opera is but I would definitely try a smaller number to see if it resolves your issue.

There was another user who increased their connections on Firefox and had their IP blocked twice (both times having to have BB manually remove the block). It was eventually figured out that they had upped their connections to 600, iirc. I haven't seen any new threads from them since they lowered their connections back to default.

[Tyranisaur]

This is obviously a site wide problem, because I get them too, and I use the default amount of connections.

[Jade]

Hmm really? Well I did change it as well, to a smaller number, but I still get the errors periodically too (so I changed it back XD). It does pop up LESS when I do less tabs at a time, but it also seems to go in stages, where many pop up and then none do for awhile. And it happens most during the night, strangely. I'm sure it is possibly a combination of factors, since I've never gotten this error on my laptop - of course I use my laptop much less often then my desktop so it's possibly not a good example.

Edit: Okay, scratch that. I'm on my laptop right now and I'm getting TONS of them. So, I guess it is a site problem, since my laptop is way faster than my desktop and shouldn't have a problem handling the multiple connections.

This post has been edited by Jade: Aug 12 2010, 06:39 AM

[Patchouli]

I do believe it's a site-wide problem. I got them quite a bit while I was clicking tonight. Also, I don't know if it's the same thing that's causing it, but sometimes when I try to go on a certain thread in the forums, it always redirects me to the main page of the forums.

I get these forum errors too as well as the frequent 403's. It's most likely a site problem.

[Whoot Virus]

same prob, but i got them at most on multiplier-days

different pc/laptop and browsers but the prob is the same =.=

I hope this will find a end very soon :>