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Subject: 
Re: whay cant i post on brickshelf!!!!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.faq
Date: 
Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:44:49 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, Tony Hafner writes:
> I've had the same problems in the past.  I eventually just gave up on
> uploading from work and doing it from home.  But as I'm on a modem, that is
> far to painful to be worth doing on a regular basis.
> 
> At one point, I attempted to upload multiple files at the same time (the
> theory being that each would run slower, but at least I could walk out of
> the room and do something else for half an hour).  But I discovered that as
> soon as you try to browse or upload while you are already uploading,
> Brickshelf logs you out (after waiting for your upload to run for forever
> and then fail).

You can only have one session active that's doing anything with Brickshelf
if you are logged in...  To upload multiple files, pack them in a zip and
upload that. (keep the zip under 10M as that's a hard limit... I stick to 2
or 3M for best results)

> 
> Is it possible that Brickshelf is tracking connections by IP address and
> then failing for some reason when 2 people are using the same address?  We
> have a lot of people at work, and everything runs through a proxy.  If
> someone else navigates to Brickshelf through the same proxy, would this
> cause them to log out?

Can't rule that out but I thought the session limit was due to the way
cookies are done to track you being logged in. Just guessing.

Kev was posting to this thread so can be authoritative

++Lar

> 
> During a bad network outage here, I was told of an alternate proxy server we
> have.  I've actually been able to use this server to upload, and my theory
> is that fewer people use it so it's less likely that someone else is
> navigating to Brickshelf at the same time.  Again, does this make sense?
> 
> --
> Tony Hafner
> www.hafhead.com



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  Re: whay cant i post on brickshelf!!!!
 
I've had the same problems in the past. I eventually just gave up on uploading from work and doing it from home. But as I'm on a modem, that is far to painful to be worth doing on a regular basis. At one point, I attempted to upload multiple files (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.faq)

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