Old Asterisk Forums Not Working

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Hope you’re all well.

I know we should be using https://community.asterisk.org/ but until someone lets Google know that it’s moved, all the search results (and Asterisk’s own search results) come from https://forums.asterisk.org/

In most browsers, it’s not displaying; in Firefox, it says:

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

Of course, I can work around by visiting the https://community.asterisk.org/
site and searching again there, and it’s not the most important thing in the world right now, but I thought I’d note it anyway.

Thanks.

6 thoughts on - Old Asterisk Forums Not Working

  • Hello!

    https://forums.asterisk.org/ is doing it again – “Content Encoding Error. An error occurred during a connection to forums.asterisk.org. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem”.

    Which is odd, as the Qualys test seems to pass, only losing a point for supporting TLS 1.0. But I know it’s not just me because Pingdom can’t read the page, either.

    Also, the wiki seems VERY slow today – I’m trying to find out whether agi_threadid is safe to use as an identifier to track a call, rather than casting the uniquedid (a float) to an int (variables don’t like dots in the name!).

    I had thought the agi_threadid would change each time a new thread was started (after an agi_hangup/break etc was sent and the caller returned to dialplan) but it appears to persist for the duration of the call/channel.

    Hmmm….

  • I have raised a ticket with IT.

    I can’t reproduce this wiki issue and haven’t seen any other reports. Is anyone else experiencing this?

    That does not result in a new thread. A channel generally stays within the same thread for its lifetime, although there are cases where it can be moved between threads or temporarily be handled by another thread. It’s not guaranteed as a unique identifier for a channel, only uniqueid or if you are referring to at a given point in time – a channel name.

  • Thanks Joshua;

    Working now – but regarding the slow wiki, it’s normally 5-10 second page load for me in the UK, but it was closer to 20 seconds earlier. https://tools.pingdom.com/#5c862c04ad800000

    Seems to be back to around 5 seconds now, but I notice that if I run a Pingdom page test from a US server, the page loads in about 1.3 seconds.

    I wonder if there might be a misconfigured edge cache my side of the pond of something? (I’m in the UK)

    Example:
    https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+13+ManagerEvent_AttendedTransfer
    – tested 3 times From Washington test point, never *above* 1.5 seconds – DNS, SSL and Connect all about 50ms From UK London test point, never *under *4 seconds – DNS, SSL and Connect all about 500ms (10x more)

    Anyway, not to worry, a few seconds is fine, just thought I’d point out the discrepancy!

    Thanks again for the project/service

    Jonathan

  • There’s no edge cache or anything. It’s direct to the community infrastructure in Huntsville, Alabama. The route may have been different at the time.