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Comments on Encoding error when accessing https://codidact.com/

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Encoding error when accessing https://codidact.com/

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When trying to access https://codidact.com/ Firefox (93.0) gives me "encoding error, contact the site owners". This appears to have happened just now, as I could use that address fine for less than an hour ago. I can access any community just fine, not just the main URL, so I don't think it's some DNS hiccup.

https://www.codidact.com also works, but https://codidact.com is no longer working.

EDIT 2:

Tried with a different computer and ISP, same browser, and it is working just fine there. So perhaps it is a DNS issue after all... I'm using Google's DNS on the computer where it works.

EDIT 3:

The error message (freely translated to English, since Firefox uses local language):

Content Encoding Error

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.

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Canina‭ wrote over 2 years ago
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Worked fine for me at 08:04 UTC. What version of Firefox are you using? Can you reproduce the problem with a fresh browser profile?

Mithical‭ wrote over 2 years ago
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I'm also unable to reproduce.

luap42‭ wrote over 2 years ago
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No repro from me either. (in two networks and from two devices)

Lundin‭ wrote over 2 years ago
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I just noticed that www.codidact.com works, but not codidact.com (which was my old bookmark). Firefox 93.0 64 bit Windows.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 2 years ago
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I just tried, also using Firefox 93.0 on Windows (Win 10, if it matters), and it worked for me. Is it still failing for you?

Lundin‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago
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Monica Cellio‭ Still failing. I updated my Codidact bookmark to www.codidact.com which works. And then when I now type codidact.com in Firefox's URL window it automatically replaces it with www.codidact.com, supposedly because I saved a bookmark. If I type out https://codidact.com/ it still gives the error. I'll try another computer with another ISP.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 2 years ago
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Just saw your update. Weird! I had to use my work computer to try this on Windows and I don't control the DNS there, so I can't exactly replicate your situation, sorry.

Canina‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago
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Works for me for both https://codidact.com/ and https://www.codidact.com/ with Firefox ESR 78.15.0 on Debian Bullseye. It sounds odd that DNS itself would cause such an error. Still, I would try switching the not-working system to Google's DNS temporarily if possible (or switch the working system to the ISP's DNS, to mirror what I presume the not-working system is using) and see if you can replicate the behavior. Since codidact.com/www.codidact.com resolves to a set of Cloudflare IP addresses, this could be caused by something like the configuration on one of their leaf nodes somehow being out of sync with the others. That would be odd, but stranger things have happened in complex systems. You could try to nslookup the respective host names using both sets of resolvers and see if there's an obvious difference.

Also, Lundin‭, please edit your question to include the exact error you're getting from Firefox, including the error number constant name. It might provide a clue.