It seems that of late a number of successful community web sites have been experiencing problems in scalability and performance. Today it’s Facebook.
Initially I got a “Problem loading page” browser message. No big deal, you get those. A few refreshes and I’m in. I was trying to send a message, I got the following popup error message.
No Network
Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint `/inbox/ajax/ajax.php’: A network error occurred. Check that you are connected to the internet.
Well yes, I’m connected to the Internet, every other site is fine. A more technical look gives the lovely connection aborted message.
lynx http://facebook.com Looking up facebook.com Making HTTP connection to facebook.com Sending HTTP request. HTTP request sent; waiting for response. HTTP/1.1 302 Found Data transfer complete HTTP/1.1 302 Found Using http://www.facebook.com/common/browser.php Looking up www.facebook.com Making HTTP connection to www.facebook.com Sending HTTP request. HTTP request sent; waiting for response. Retrying as HTTP0 request. Looking up www.facebook.com Making HTTP connection to www.facebook.com Sending HTTP request. HTTP request sent; waiting for response. Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted. Can't Access `http://www.facebook.com/common/browser.php' Alert!: Unable to access document. lynx: Can't access startfile
