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RAF Section => Suggestions / Feedback & Issues => Topic started by: Kelly on April 02, 2009, 06:50:09 PM

Title: Why am I still a male?
Post by: Kelly on April 02, 2009, 06:50:09 PM

Haha.
But April Fools Day is over, I don't like being male.
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Title: Re: Why am I still a male?
Post by: Richard on April 02, 2009, 07:03:09 PM

Refresh the page.

Ctrl+F5

Title: Re: Why am I still a male?
Post by: Slushie Man on April 02, 2009, 09:56:31 PM

Refreshing the page didn't work for me. I'm still a girl.

Edit: Nevermind. I just deleted my Internet cookies and now it works.

Title: Re: Why am I still a male?
Post by: Kelly on April 03, 2009, 12:16:30 AM

I'm still a dude. Oh well

Title: Re: Why am I still a male?
Post by: morfowt on April 03, 2009, 04:50:04 AM

it says female to me... in fact the gender switch didn't work for me at all, no matter how many times I pressed ctrl + F5

Title: Re: Why am I still a male?
Post by: wildweathel on April 03, 2009, 07:02:16 AM

Somewhere between your browser and RAF's server (in Houston, Texas, if I recall correctly) there's an intercepting cache.  It's intercepting the request for Male.gif and Female.gif, and responding with a previously-downloaded copy.

Normally, Shift + F5 in both IE and Firefox sends a "cache-control: no-cache" header, which according to the HTTP standard, "MUST" be sent to RAF's server for a fresh response.

Apparently, someone decided that saving bandwidth is more important than following the agreed-upon standard.  This is probably happening before the request is sent on one of the crowded undersea cables that handle continent-to-continent communications. 

That would explains why this issue doesn't seem to affect American or Canadian users--they don't need to use an undersea cable, but can just hop on the fairly-good North American network.

Still, you do have grounds to complain.  You're paying for Internet service (probably by the byte in Australia, from what I've heard), yet you're getting substandard service.

Title: Re: Why am I still a male?
Post by: Nateosaurus on April 04, 2009, 03:07:02 AM

Everyone is female to me, and I am not changing it. Ever. :D

Title: Re: Why am I still a male?
Post by: Kelly on April 05, 2009, 05:24:58 PM

I tried the control f5 thing again and it worked this time..I'm female again!

Title: Re: Why am I still a male?
Post by: goom on April 25, 2009, 11:07:09 PM

Quote from: Kelly on April 05, 2009, 05:24:58 PM

I tried the control f5 thing again and it worked this time..I'm female again!

control+shift+del allows you to clear private data in firefox.
that or the aforementioned control+f5 :)

glad to see you got it fixed.