Forum Outage since MN Friday 23-OCT?

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That is fair. I can confirm that the host https://forums.flightsimulator.com typically returns a 500 or 504 when an outage is occurring.

A ‘Not Found’ error (404) is a response from a server that acknowledges the request but informs the requesting client that the resource could not be found at that address. So 404 errors usually respond quickly.

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Probably getting rid of my long winded posts. But maybe things are faster now too.

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Nice to see things back up and running again.
The lack of information was a little disconcerting.

For the more paranoid amongst us, next time go here: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com

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I did that … The IP address was responsive, there was just no Web Server Active responding at the end !!!

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Clearly reported the site as “down”, for me!
And reported the site as “up” when I was eventually able to log back in.

Go figure, eh.

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My bad … I used another checking website … next time and for all other, I will use https://www.isitdownrightnow.com

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I hope it helps.
Cheers.

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Being bored I wrote this:

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class Program {
	public class Resource {
		public string Address;  
		public string Name;
	}

	static async Task Main(string[] args) {
		List<Resource> Resources = new List<Resource>
		{
			new Resource { Type = AddressType.URL, Address = "https://flightsimulator.com", Name = "Official Website" },
			new Resource { Type = AddressType.URL, Address = "https://forums.flightsimulator.com", Name = "Forums"  },
		}

		foreach(Resource r in Resources) {
			HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
			var res =  await client.GetAsync(r.Address, HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead);

			Console.WriteLine($"HTTP\t{(int)res.StatusCode}\t\t-\t{r.Name}");
		}
	}
}
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Nice – I am Impressed :slight_smile:

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How do I run this?

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It’s not that impressive :slight_smile: - I was simply bored and decided that writing this program would entertain me for five minutes and was generally speaking more fun than using down detector.

You don’t. Not unless you have the .NET Core SDK installed and Visual Studios.

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Ah. I don’t and I don’t.
If only I knew what it was, perhaps I too would be impressed.

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It is a small C# console application. It iterates through a list of websites and prints their HTTP status code to the console. So again not really that impressive, I was simply showing the depths of my boredom

HTTP    200       -       Official Website
HTTP    200       -       Forums

Status Code List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

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Ok.
Well, thanks for showing us all “the depths of your boredom”
Perhaps you should write an app that that takes more than “five minutes” to write.

Do you know what I do when I get bored?
I pick up my guitar and play!
So, that’s what I shall do, right now.

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I spent most of my evening updating another web application of mine, this was a five-minute project to have a change of pace :slight_smile:

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Your skills are very impressive.
Please, show us another code snippet.

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Maybe they tried to implement RFC-1149 into their servers?

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Soo, here in italy the forum doesn’t open for all the day… Did i lost my frequency day yesterday? Thanks? (For the 100 day badge)

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So long as you accessed the forums in the last 24 hours, you should be okay?

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I have serious doubts … The last time I logged in was Friday night at 10pm