gtk-apps.org Problem.

**stinkeye** · May 21st, 2013

I'm subscribed to gtk-apps.org rss feed for new content and receive feed news ok
but for the last couple of weeks the site won't load.
Is it just me?
http://gtk-apps.org/

**cipherboy_loc** · May 21st, 2013

I tried loading the page, but it didn't seem to load. In the bottom left corner of Firefox, it hung on "Connecting to static.gtk-apps.org", so I tried the following:

Code:

cipherboy@ubuntu-basement:~$ ping gtk-apps.org
PING gtk-apps.org (188.138.118.86) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from gtk (188.138.118.86): icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=142 ms
64 bytes from gtk (188.138.118.86): icmp_req=2 ttl=53 time=143 ms
64 bytes from gtk (188.138.118.86): icmp_req=3 ttl=53 time=143 ms
^C
--- gtk-apps.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 142.930/143.328/143.714/0.541 ms
cipherboy@ubuntu-basement:~$ ping static.gtk-apps.org
PING static.gtk-apps.org (80.190.241.68) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- static.gtk-apps.org ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4999ms

cipherboy@ubuntu-basement:~$ wget gtk-apps.org
--2013-05-21 17:06:37--  http://gtk-apps.org/
Resolving gtk-apps.org (gtk-apps.org)... 188.138.118.86
Connecting to gtk-apps.org (gtk-apps.org)|188.138.118.86|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’

    [   <=>                                 ] 117,936      154KB/s   in 0.7s   

2013-05-21 17:06:38 (154 KB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [117936]

cipherboy@ubuntu-basement:~$ cat index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
{snip}
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://kona.kontera.com/javascript/lib/KonaLibInline.js'>
</script>
<!-- end Kontera(TM) --> 
</body></html>
cipherboy@ubuntu-basement:~$  wget static.gtk-apps.org
--2013-05-21 17:10:26--  http://static.gtk-apps.org/
Resolving static.gtk-apps.org (static.gtk-apps.org)... 80.190.241.68
Connecting to static.gtk-apps.org (static.gtk-apps.org)|80.190.241.68|:80... ^C
cipherboy@ubuntu-basement:~$

In other words...the site proper is fine, but the content off of static.gtk-apps.org doesn't seem to work, at least for me.

Thanks,
Cipherboy LOC

**stinkeye** · May 22nd, 2013

Originally Posted by cipherboy_loc

I tried loading the page, but it didn't seem to load. In the bottom left corner of Firefox, it hung on "Connecting to static.gtk-apps.org", so I tried the following:

Code:

cipherboy@ubuntu-basement:~$ ping gtk-apps.org
PING gtk-apps.org (188.138.118.86) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from gtk (188.138.118.86): icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=142 ms
64 bytes from gtk (188.138.118.86): icmp_req=2 ttl=53 time=143 ms
64 bytes from gtk (188.138.118.86): icmp_req=3 ttl=53 time=143 ms
^C
--- gtk-apps.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 142.930/143.328/143.714/0.541 ms
cipherboy@ubuntu-basement:~$ ping static.gtk-apps.org
PING static.gtk-apps.org (80.190.241.68) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- static.gtk-apps.org ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4999ms

cipherboy@ubuntu-basement:~$ wget gtk-apps.org
--2013-05-21 17:06:37--  http://gtk-apps.org/
Resolving gtk-apps.org (gtk-apps.org)... 188.138.118.86
Connecting to gtk-apps.org (gtk-apps.org)|188.138.118.86|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’

    [   <=>                                 ] 117,936      154KB/s   in 0.7s   

2013-05-21 17:06:38 (154 KB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [117936]

cipherboy@ubuntu-basement:~$ cat index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
{snip}
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://kona.kontera.com/javascript/lib/KonaLibInline.js'>
</script>
<!-- end Kontera(TM) --> 
</body></html>
cipherboy@ubuntu-basement:~$  wget static.gtk-apps.org
--2013-05-21 17:10:26--  http://static.gtk-apps.org/
Resolving static.gtk-apps.org (static.gtk-apps.org)... 80.190.241.68
Connecting to static.gtk-apps.org (static.gtk-apps.org)|80.190.241.68|:80... ^C
cipherboy@ubuntu-basement:~$

In other words...the site proper is fine, but the content off of static.gtk-apps.org doesn't seem to work, at least for me.

Thanks,
Cipherboy LOC

Yep, that's what I'm seeing.
My browser stalls at Connecting to remote host static.gtk-apps.org
and has been like that for a couple of weeks.
The kde-apps.org site loads fine.
Sent an email to opendesktop.org

**vasa1** · May 22nd, 2013

@stinkeye, I edited my /etc/hosts file to include
127.0.0.1 http://static.gtk-apps.org

I did this because while the link you provided doesn't load (as we've seen), I could use Ctr+U to view the source of the page. That had this:
h t t p : / / static.gtk-apps.org/styles/global-style.css and some other stuff that may not be crucial to the content.

So when I tried to load your link again with the modified hosts file, it loaded without styles and presumably some fancy javascript stuff.

**stinkeye** · May 22nd, 2013

Originally Posted by vasa1

@stinkeye, I edited my /etc/hosts file to include
127.0.0.1 http://static.gtk-apps.org

I did this because while the link you provided doesn't load (as we've seen), I could use Ctr+U to view the source of the page. That had this:
h t t p : / / static.gtk-apps.org/styles/global-style.css and some other stuff that may not be crucial to the content.

So when I tried to load your link again with the modified hosts file, it loaded without styles and presumably some fancy javascript stuff.

Hi, vasa1...
Yeah that seems to work. Bit messy but readable and dowload links still work.
At least the page loads when I click on a link in the RSS feed.
Thanks.

Edit: Thanks also to cipherboy_loc for your input.

**vasa1** · May 22nd, 2013

Originally Posted by stinkeye

Hi, vasa1...
Yeah that seems to work. Bit messy but readable and dowload links still work.
At least the page loads when I click on a link in the RSS feed.
Thanks.

Glad I could help. Someone needs to fix that site. It's quite informative!

I visited it with Google Chrome 27 thinking I might be luckier. But that browser just had "sending request" in its status bar. Firefox showed the link which was the "blocker" in its status bar so I knew what to look for in the source.

Edit:
I don't use /etc/hosts normally and I think
127.0.0.1 static.gtk-apps.org
would be the appropriate thing.

**stinkeye** · May 22nd, 2013

Originally Posted by vasa1

Glad I could help. Someone needs to fix that site. It's quite informative!

I visited it with Google Chrome 27 thinking I might be luckier. But that browser just had "sending request" in its status bar. Firefox showed the link which was the "blocker" in its status bar so I knew what to look for in the source.

Edit:
I don't use /etc/hosts normally and I think
127.0.0.1 static.gtk-apps.org
would be the appropriate thing.

Yep I use the same thing to block vindsl.com so I don't have to load his 1Mb conky screenshots everytime
he changes his wallpaper.
That's just between you and me, though.