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I just had a very odd thing happen to me on GitHub. I accidentally closed my browser so I reopened it with Undo Tab Close, and GitHub's tab title was labeled "
by qwertox 5y ago
I just had a very odd thing happen to me on GitHub.
I accidentally closed my browser so I reopened it with Undo Tab Close, and GitHub's tab title was labeled "Your account recovery is unable to load" for a very brief moment. Then the GitHub error site with the pink unicorn loaded. The URL which was supposed to load was https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs which I had tried to load about 15 minutes earlier or so, but which would not load because the site is down.
- sodality2 5y agoIt sounds like some HTML was cached by your browser and it then tried to load some info, which of course results in a 5xx error. Then the existing HTML realized that and showed the error.
- qwertox 5y agoWhy would something related to account recovery be cached in such a way that it is the first thing which gets rendered? I really doubt that it is related to caching. Also, that tab was idle for a couple of minutes while I was trying to load GitHub in another tab multiple times before I accidentally closed the browser (just that window, I had other windows of the same browser instance open).
- sodality2 5y agoJust the HTML of the existing page could have been cached, and it may check in the background to reload account info. Then, if this can't be loaded, it shows the error.