Preview: Restaurant Menu Pro wine list

[willson]

Preview of a wine list fails at http://example.com/index.php?option=com ... sk=preview
with blank pages or messages that it could not connect (in Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari).

This occurs when the Setting for the Header of the winelist contains text like:

[AOC] (Denominación de Origin Calificada en España [DOCa]).

Reducing the symptom to fewer characters it isolates to the problem being:
[x]

Matched square brackets with an alphabetic character between them.

I guess I'll just have to avoid that particular string sequence for the time being.

[Jan]

Hi, sorry I don't understand? Do you use some editor, isn't there any problem with editor and [x]?
Or do you use some system plugin which works with [] code?


I am testing it on all my test sites and don't see any problem there

see:

wine-list-code.png

Jan

[willson]

Then it's probably my Apache server configuration. I will try it on localhost someday (a different Apache configuration) and see what happens.

[Jan]

Ok, see if there is some system plugin which can cause such problem too

[willson]

Definitely not a plugin problem. The preview ( http://example.com/index.php?option=com_phocamenu&view=winelist&tmpl=component&task=preview) doesn't even get logged as an access on the server. That is to say, the request does not get logged in the Access Log nor the Error Log. So it seems that it's getting blocked someplace in Apache or earlier.

It's not Windows Firewall, SpywareDoctor or Avira that's blocking the request.
Investigation continues.

Edit: My new workaround: Use [ and ] instead of the characters [and ] .

[Jan]

and the mod_security ?

[willson]

Not mod_security either. Those usually (always?) show up in the error log and usually throw a 500 error code.

This is giving an "Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): Unknown error." (which is additional information shown in Chrome; other browser s just throw blank or uninformative screens). 3xx errors from http are redirection errors but 324 is not an official http error code.

I'm guessng it's somewhere in the networking. I've seen some mention of WinSock - - haven't tried that yet. I did a ipconfig /flushdns but that didn't help either.

Carrying on regardless.

[Jan]

ok