Weird - suddenly booted out of MSE

Bogof_Babe

I was just reading a thread and pressed the Thanks button (had done it on several previous posts), to get an error message along the lines of:

Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

Then a very long string which kept repeating (among other things) 'thanks' followed by an 8-digit number.

I was on Firefox and then tried IE (7 I think) and got the same thing. Tried on my phone and it was fine. Have shut down and rebooted netbook and now okay on IE, not tried Firefox yet.

Any idea what that was all about?

Giant_Space_Lizard

is firefox and ie fully updated?

Bogof_Babe

I only installed Firefox last week. I haven't manually updated anything since getting the netbook last July, but every few days it downloads updates (of ???) automatically.

Don't know how to get updated versions of things - just assumed they arrive by themselves .

Giant_Space_Lizard

well to update firefox click on help at the top and select search for updates, im guessung you already have latest version though.

oh sorry i just read that you fixed it with reset ah well who knows, pc's can be very temperamental at times

Bennifred

This happens to me once in a while, and only on this site :mad: . I find if I clear cookies/history it's OK again for a few weeks - most odd...........

Bogof_Babe

Bennifred wrote: »

This happens to me once in a while, and only on this site :mad: . I find if I clear cookies/history it's OK again for a few weeks - most odd...........

I was hoping someone else would say they'd had the same thing happen. I looked on Site Feedback at first but nothing on there so assumed it was just me.

Seems to be very slow tonight too. Ah well, just one of those things I suppose.

tanith

I get this too every few weeks only on this site.. I have shut my computer down completely (don't do that often) and boot up again and its fine..