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Matthew Montchalin wrote on Fri, Oct 28, 2005 05:26 AM UTC:
Geeeeze, I hope I am not the only one who is having trouble with
www.chessvariants.org.  I keep running into the following browser problem
with my game of Rococo with gwduke:

  'Your browser was not refreshed when you entered this move.  If this
move had not been stopped, you would have overwritten your log with data
for a past move, causing you to lose moves in your game. Go back and
refresh the log page before entering your move.'

Well, I've gone back to the log page four times, and I'm still getting
the same error message.  No matter how many times I go to the 'log page'
and sign in, I keep getting the same error message.  What good will it do
me to attempt to 'refresh the log page' one more time?

The Game Courier program expects the user to type out a URL manually each
time a move is logged.  I've always looked on that part of the interface
with an element of suspicion, in much the same way I look at Java applets
and other webbrowsing features with suspicion.  If Fergus can't come up
with an alternative to submitting game moves than typing a web address or
URL in manually, I guess I just won't be willing to use Game Courier any
more to transmit the moves.  (I suppose I could still post my moves here
in the Comments area, although that prevents me from looking at the
chessboard diagrams at the same time.)

Maybe this is just a West Coast to East Coast thing, assuming the site is
actually being maintained on computers in New York?  I'm certainly not in
a position to authenticate (let alone inspect) the actual packets that are
being swapped from server to server, to get my data over to New York... 
(And then people wonder why I don't trust this newfangled world wide web
stuff....)

Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Oct 28, 2005 03:13 PM UTC:
Actually, I think you might be the only one with this problem; there is no
need to type in URLs manually, and, based on your description of the
problem, I'm not sure that would help.  For some reason your browser
isn't reloading the page even when you go away and come back...  With
Internet Explorer (and some other browsers) you can force a reload by
holding down the control key while you click the refresh button.  Try
that.  If that does it, then you need to adjust your browser settings;
look for an option called something like 'reload page if newer' or
'reload page always.'  If that doesn't do it, however,  then something
is very wrong with your browser...

Matthew Montchalin wrote on Fri, Oct 28, 2005 11:10 PM UTC:
Okay, thanks for the information about holding the CTRL key down while I
click the mouse.  (?)  My familiarity with Windows and Internet Explorer
is limited to the disasters I've suffered from, and succeeded against,
despite the odds.

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