Popup error when idling on a page

Flam

Today I've been messing with vanilla2 for a bit and I've noticed that if I leave a page open for long enough, a popup error message appears, displaying the following message:
"A fatal error occurred while processing the request.
The server returned the following response: error"

image: http://kimag.es/share/1400589.jpg

Is this something from my host's side? Has anyone experienced this before?

Flam9

My old account doesn't want to login no matter what I try (correct password) so I created this new one.

Bump.

Also, I have noscript installed but disabled for my site if that changes anything.

Also2, I experienced the same error on this forum's registration page.

luc

It might be on your host side or connection.

If you leave a discussion open, and have it set to refresh automatically via the built-in feature, it uses ajax to check if there's new comments.

If there's an error, you can get this message.

Flam9

That might be it actually, sounds very likely.
Do you know where I can disable this feature?

luc

When you install, you've the choice to unable it or not.

Afterwards, you can edit conf/config.php:

$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comments']['AutoRefresh'] = '30';

To disable, you, most likely, have to change '30' to FALSE.

Flam9

I've made this edit and now it appears immediately on page load.
I guess you can say this timer is more like a countdown....

Hmm

[edit] I tried setting 30 to 6000 and one of my topics vanished.
I then reset it to 30 and my topic reapeared but now the popup loads on page load as if it was set to FALSE

luc

I've changed mine, on my test install at work from 5 to 120 without issues.

And it does work fine at 30, on my test install at home.

Maybe just try to comment it.

Flam9

K i've set it to 120 and 2 minutes seems high enough that no one will notice it hopefully.

I wonder what function accesses it, so I can look and see what my host is missing to fix it.

Todd

You can also disable this in the Dashboard/Forum/General.