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500 Internal Server Error

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by crazytuna, May 7, 2009.

  1. crazytuna

    crazytuna Well-Known Member

    not sure if this is the right board but anyway
    I was checking some videos on youtube, and then out of nowhere after I clicked a link
    I got this
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    It speaks about highly trained monkeys >_>
    Is this normal? Did anyone else got this page?
    And what is that?
     
  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    its an error with youtube's server configuration.
     
  3. crazytuna

    crazytuna Well-Known Member

    oh I thought it was a virus cause it spoke about a team of monkeys
     
  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    no, its supposed to be amusing.
     
  5. crazytuna

    crazytuna Well-Known Member

    but still can't they make a normal error page? >_>
     
  6. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    why? They're boring and that page has extra information that a normal error page doesnt have. The rubbish at the bottom is encoded and when decoded it will tell them what you were doing and what happened to cause the error, which is important if they need to fix something.
     
  7. crazytuna

    crazytuna Well-Known Member

    oh so you mean that scribbling down there is actually really important?
     
  8. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

    Duh; it says to include that in your error report. But honestly, YouTube really sucks at managing their site. Videos are often glitchy and they perform maintenance on the servers during peak hours. Also, videos download really slow for some reason, even on my wicked FiOS connection.
     
  9. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    probably a combination of bandwidth congestion at their end, inadequate routing and the fact its flash video that more than likely hasn't been encoded optimally.
     
  10. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

    Hehe, Google routes inadequately. :p

    It used to be really fast; I guess they became too popular.