Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

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Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by therube » September 18th, 2015, 4:18 pm

Both google.com & www.googleapis.com need to be allowed.

Further, the "legacy HTML version" (where JavaScript is not required) is now broken:

http://cse.google.com/cse?cx=003258325049489668794:ru2dpahviq8&q=cannot+send&sa=Search&cof=FORID:0&nojs=1

403. That’s an error.

Your client does not have permission to get URL /cse?cx=003258325049489668794:ru2dpahviq8&q=cannot+send&sa=Search&cof=FORID:0&nojs=1 from this server.

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by therube » September 18th, 2015, 4:14 pm

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by therube » August 4th, 2015, 10:59 am

With the bump, figured I'd try freeware-guide.com again, but still the same.
So I shot an email to the webmaster & he replied:
Thanks Steven
The same: ?
Working correctly (for me) @ IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera.
Sincerely,
Miodrag

IOW he ran the same search as I did - though successfully.

So why does it work for some & not others?

ISP? I only have Comcast to check (& fail) with.
Otherwise...?

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by fredwehr » August 4th, 2015, 8:38 am

I also see this defect, evidenced by
"404. That’s an error.

The requested URL /cse?cx=003258325049489668794%3Adrr0nlojlas&ie=UTF-8&q=venire&sa=Go&siteurl=forums.mozillazine.org%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D48%26t%3D522643%26start%3D15&ref=forums.mozillazine.org%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ft%3D522643&ss=&siteurl=forums.mozillazine.org%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D48%26t%3D522643%26start%3D15&ref=forums.mozillazine.org%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ft%3D522643&ss= was not found on this server. That’s all we know. "

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by LoudNoise » July 23rd, 2015, 6:47 pm

therube wrote:@LoudNoise, does the freeware-guide.com search work for you?


Yeah, works for me. I also tried a second search to make sure it had nothing to due with the link. I'll try again tomorrow on a windows machine at work.

(You're not secretly using IE are you ;-).)


I do have the ability to place 30 minute bans... :)

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by therube » July 23rd, 2015, 6:05 pm

So I go here, http://www.freeware-guide.com/html/updates.html, & at the bottom of the page, the Search box, 'filezilla'.

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pu ... &sa=Search

404. That’s an error.

The requested URL /cse?cx=partner-pub-2663757276955518%3Auimepoge7iv&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=filezilla&sa=Search was not found on this server.


I don't use that search too often, but I have, successfully in the past.
So maybe its just a change on Google's end, that websites need to account for?

@LoudNoise, does the freeware-guide.com search work for you?
(You're not secretly using IE are you ;-).)

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by LoudNoise » July 20th, 2015, 7:47 am

I'll try that this evening.

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by therube » July 20th, 2015, 7:24 am

> AV maybe?

Nope. Don't use such a beast.


Perhaps ... Fire up FF.
Ctrl+Shift+K, Network & see if that might show something different on your end URL-wise (& not that I'd really know what to look for), compared to what may have been noted here?

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http://www.google.com/cse?cx=003258325049489668794%3Aru2dpahviq8&q=safe+mode&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A0

GET /cse?cx=003258325049489668794%3Aru2dpahviq8&q=safe+mode&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A0 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.google.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Knowledge_Base
Cookie: PREF=ID=1111111111111111:FF=0:TM=1434739617:LM=1435152612:S=DfrebwucsJ0w8b7s; NID=69=aHKxJP0Qv5bme_ffpwmK8hVH_oqlzSNrbWarSctzioShAbIa35__L5CB7mjZbMCoshMuMw5demmMk4hh8vC1c7s0NuSpzUI8MVVEB
Y4UKVwbVBetfPthWnTk0QGfiMfHuPfvTanIuKsZ6A; OGP=-5061451:; OGPC=5061451-1:5061617-1:
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:28:38 GMT
Server: qfe
Content-Length: 1515
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Alternate-Protocol: 80:quic,p=0
----------------------------------------------------------

(purposely broke NID= because code box was not being properly constrained on this board ???)

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by LoudNoise » July 20th, 2015, 7:04 am

Works for me in both Firefox and Chromium. Clicking on the "Takes you" links works for me also.

AV maybe? Given the fact that you also have the problem on a different machine I'll admit this is a long shot at best.

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by therube » July 20th, 2015, 6:35 am

Does the problem happen when you are on different computer or at a different location?


Yes.

And to be sure we're on the same page...

Start here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Knowledge_Base
Search box: 'safe mode'
Search

Takes you (me) here: http://www.google.com/cse?cx=003258325049489668794%3Aru2dpahviq8&q=safe+mode&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A0

404. That’s an error.

The requested URL /cse?cx=003258325049489668794%3Aru2dpahviq8&q=safe+mode&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A0 was not found on this server.


Get the same with Google Chrome.
(Yesterday, different computer, location, I was at least getting the Google Ads. Now, simply the 404.)

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by LoudNoise » July 19th, 2015, 3:42 pm

Weird. After allowing googleapis.com in NoScript everything worked fine for me. Does the problem happen when you are on different computer or at a different location?

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by therube » July 19th, 2015, 1:26 pm

Safe. New Profile. SeaMonkey. FF. All think kind of good stuff.

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by LoudNoise » July 19th, 2015, 12:37 pm

Have you tried safe mode?

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by therube » July 19th, 2015, 5:56 am

(And it gets even better, as kb.mozillazine.org won't even load at present, (110) Connection timed out, to even be able to test for googleapis.)

Loading now.


And something just changed. (12:38 PM 07/19/2015)

A moment ago, it was still 404.
Now, you get the "Ads by Google", but no actual search results.

Re: Is our (Google) KB Search Failing, sometimes?

by LoudNoise » July 18th, 2015, 11:08 am

After suffering from a couple of weeks of not getting any results from the kb google search I discovered that, in my case, is was allowing googleapis.com in NoScript.

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