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Originally Posted by Fangthane
A couple of us were using it fairly regularly when it just stopped working one day. I'd assumed that you disabled it to close up some possible security hole or something.
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Well, I can't remember exactly, but I believe I looked into this a while back. I just looked into it again with mixed results.
Here's the error message I get when I try to log into the chat system:
I had the server tech people verify that port 8080 was open.
The chat server appears to be working on the server
I am not using a proxy, I have temporarily disabled any firewall restrictions or blocks.
I tried four different browsers (IE, FireFox, Google Chrome, and Maxthon) on my desktop running Windows Vista. None of them will work the chat system. Some give me the following error message:
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Faunaclassifieds Chat Client requires a Java Compatible web browser to run! Please use new and compatible a browser to join our chat room..
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I tried three different browsers (IE, FireFox, Maxthon) on my laptop running Win 7. Maxthon will open the chat system, but the other two will not.
So it appears that the server side HAS to be working if even one of the browsers on one of my PCs can access the chat system.
So where does the problem lie?
Even if I figure out the voodoo chant necessary to be able to get the chat system to work on all browsers on all systems (not even addressing the issue of mobile devices), do I really want to spend the time writing up a document of all the steps necessary for everyone to be able to get chat to work on their own devices?
Perhaps the problem really is the chat system itself, since the code is quite old, and the developer has left the building. But is it really worth it to me to spend the money to buy another package and pay my programmer to install it?
Is it something that would actually be a draw to anyone here? Chat systems were pre-texting age bells and whistles on websites. Perhaps they are as desirable and useful now to people as slide rules are.
Unless someone can prove me wrong, it appears to me that to prevent problems that the chat system apparently can cause with anyone being able to access the site if it chokes up on something, the best solution would be to just remove the code completely and be done with it.
I will run the two options (find out why the chat system doesn't work reliably, or remove it) by my programmer for his advice. I believe he once told me a while back that I was the only one he knew of that still even had chat systems on their forum sites. So maybe that means something...