Comment Posting Problems

I’ve noticed and so have others about a problem while posting comments on this blog.

IE throws up a Page Cannot Displayed error and Firefox asks you to download the PHP file.

I’m still clueless as to what could be the exact problem with this and so I’ve decided to test Akismet instead of SK2 for a while in the process of isolating and eliminating the error.

I don’t believe this problem to be because of PHP, because I can make posts perfectly with a lot more data than the comments.

My next step after this is to deactivate the Math Plugin to see if that could a cause. I might switch back to Peter’s Antispam with the CAPTCHA as well.

Any one have any ideas about what could be causing this problem?

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Post Date :: Monday, Mar 26th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
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Tags :: akismet, php, plugin, spam karma
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Binny V A says:
March 26th, 2007 at 8:17 pm

It has happened to me at times on this site. Hope this comment goes through.

Madhur Kapoor says:
March 26th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

Yeah , i faced a problem a few times , lets hope this comment gets posted .

Ajay says:
March 26th, 2007 at 9:20 pm

@Binny, you’re comment got caught as spam by Akismet. You should write in to them. I recovered it.

@Madhur, you’re comment came through properly.

Runa says:
March 26th, 2007 at 9:43 pm

You’re not the only one with this problem. For instance, I read a similar post here: http://www.infektia.net/2007/03/22/anti-spam-functions-for-wordpress/

Anyway I never encountered any problem with the math plugin. (I’m using firefox).

Ajay says:
March 26th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

I didn’t face the problem myself, hence, it is a bit hard to debug.

Benedict Herold says:
March 26th, 2007 at 10:29 pm

Ajay, Here few more observation…

The comment part of each post takes considerably long time to load.

The Math plugin sometime tells me that you’ve failed in the math, even though I’m good enough at Math :-0

I think its good time to remove couple of plugins..!!

Binny V A says:
March 27th, 2007 at 12:09 am

Ajay, I have written to Akismet - I did not get any response from them yet. I think it is because I use a blogspot site as my url. Blogspot is notorious for the amount of spam blogs on it. From now on, I will not use that in my URL field. Let me see if it makes any difference.

Ajay says:
March 27th, 2007 at 10:52 am

@Benedict, that loading is a fault of Feedburner. I’m not sure what I can do there!
I may replace the Math plugin with Peter’s Antispam once again and see how good / bad the captcha works out to be!
Or I may just use a simple additional question (not random)

@Binny, Try using you’re .com or others. I guess this comment went through without problems.

CypherHackz says:
March 27th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

sometimes it happens when you have slow internet connection. it happens on me quite regular when my connection speeed was really slow.

Luna says:
March 27th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

@Ajay, from the day i have started posting i have been facing this problem of page cannot be displayed after loading a comment, and when i click on the refresh button it shows Duplicate comment detected.!! but i thought that i must be making some mistake so never mentioned it…!! this is just for ur info…

Ajay says:
March 27th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

@Cypher, thanks for confirming this, because it was a similar observation I made as well.

@Luna, that is the problem I am talking about. You’re still facing it?

Luna says:
March 27th, 2007 at 6:06 pm

yes..every time i make a post..!!

Vijay says:
March 27th, 2007 at 7:43 pm

I certainly have had no such problem when posting on your site.. I’ll report if I do get a problem anytime.

Ajay says:
March 28th, 2007 at 12:06 am

I believe it could be internet connection coupled with server settings…

Nirmal says:
March 28th, 2007 at 11:00 pm

I too had problem with Comments 2 times in this blog…let me check this time…

Ajay says:
March 28th, 2007 at 11:04 pm

I’m working on the PHP configuration of the server… lets see if this gets rectified.

Luna says:
March 29th, 2007 at 5:41 pm

so have u been able to locate something?? me still facing the same problem..

Luna says:
March 29th, 2007 at 5:43 pm

this is the message i get..

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

——————————————————————————–

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://ajaydsouza.com/wp-comments-post.php

The following error was encountered:

Zero Sized Reply
Squid did not receive any data for this request.

Your cache administrator is Adminaec.

Generated Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:07:09 GMT by proxy (squid/2.5.STABLE4

Ajay says:
March 29th, 2007 at 6:43 pm

Damn, seems like you’re still getting error even though I made changes… This is really irritating me…

Luna says:
March 30th, 2007 at 3:59 pm

@Ajay, u said u would take down the maths spam protection thing n see. what happened..did it work??

Ajay says:
March 31st, 2007 at 1:28 pm

I have increased some limits on the server. I take it you are still facing the problem??

Luna says:
March 31st, 2007 at 2:16 pm

well lemme try!

Ajay says:
March 31st, 2007 at 3:46 pm

So, what were your results?
I have disabled the math plugin as well.

Luna says:
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:59 pm

not working! may be something is wrong with my webhost.
btw i guess its abt time your scm online course started..isn’t it??? all the best for the same.

Ajay says:
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:40 pm

They will be emailing us the details. We are still waiting for the same.

Benedict Herold says:
April 2nd, 2007 at 4:43 pm

The load time has increased much with your site now..

Ajay says:
April 2nd, 2007 at 5:01 pm

Any part in specific that seems to be getting stuck??

Aniela says:
April 6th, 2007 at 4:45 am

I haven’t had a problem posting a comment on your site (yet). But I strongly suggest you give Akismet a try. It’s a life saver !

Ajay says:
April 6th, 2007 at 8:49 am

@Aniela, I’m currently running Akismet itself. But, I prefer SK2

Yuriy says:
September 5th, 2007 at 3:29 am

I can’t see the problem with posting comments. Problem fixed …