oneano 8 Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 After working and tweaking and working more on ubot. I cannot get it to work with dialup, Firefox does not have the problems that I have with ubot. I am posting to craigslist I use dialup as a geolocated proxy service, yes, its kinda slow, but its not that bad with craigslist a very minimal site. The issue is errors, I get them all of the time with time outs and dns errors. Why? how can I fix this? I was thinking that I could make a subroutine (define) to control these errors but I couldn't get it to work. any ideas on what I can do? Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JohnB 255 Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 Well...there are a multitude of members who have functioning craigslist bots, so having said that, it's clearly not UBot and it's clearly not craigslist. The only non-constant is your dialup service which tells me that is the culprit. So your title is a little off the mark, as it works fine. You might want to explore other proxy options. John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oneano 8 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 Well...there are a multitude of members who have functioning craigslist bots, so having said that, it's clearly not UBot and it's clearly not craigslist. The only non-constant is your dialup service which tells me that is the culprit. So your title is a little off the mark, as it works fine. You might want to explore other proxy options. John Im just trying to get some idea on how to get it to work, Im being negative about anything. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oneano 8 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 How can I build some form of error handling into ubot? I am thinking that I can save the URL to a variable, use aloop while to check if the page has loaded and if not wait 60 seconds and navigate to that url that was stored. Im somewhat new, so I cannot get this to save the url. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JohnB 255 Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 Yeah, that's fine. I was just saying that is the only part of the mix that is likely causing the issue. Dialup inherently causes issues regarding connections, etc in an environment such as UBot that is completely dependent on 100% up time. Any break in a connection can cause everything to fail. John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JohnB 255 Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 If you have an idea of what should be loading, you can do a page search for that (like a custom command that searches and then waits, etc). John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oneano 8 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 Yeah, that's fine. I was just saying that is the only part of the mix that is likely causing the issue. Dialup inherently causes issues regarding connections, etc in an environment such as UBot that is completely dependent on 100% up time. Any break in a connection can cause everything to fail. John It doesnt seem to be a break in the connection, the connections are mostly fine. I do expect some errors of course. But with ubot, I seem to get a lot of them that I not get with firefox when running side by side. What I want to do is when I get a error such as a DNS error, I just want to refresh the page. Using a javascript refresh doesnt work since the page never actually loaded. So i am trying to come up with a way to store current URL into a variable. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ira_Hayes 4 Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 I too get those errors, and I'm not on dialup. Not sure about the proxies I use though as they are scrapped and not private to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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