Getting "connection reset" errors

[Jonathan Scott]

Today I've had several errors when following links around the forums, but refreshing the page works immediately. The error occurs immediately (not like a timeout) and the "errors details" say that the connection was reset by the server.

Here's what Google Chrome gives as error details:

Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.

This could be a bug in Chrome, as I've not seen it when using Firefox, but since I use Chrome much more than Firefox that could also just be chance. Anyone else see the same problem, and if so with what browser?

[Greg Bernhardt]

How does the error present itself?

[Jonathan Scott]

How does the error present itself?

In Google Chrome, instead of the web page, I get the following:


This webpage is not available.

The webpage at http://www.physicsforums.com/ might be temporarily down or it may
have moved permanently to a new web address.

More information on this error


If I click on the "More information" link I get the following:


Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.


If I click on the refresh button, I usually immediately get the right page, although I think it has sometimes taken a further attempt before it works.

[Greg Bernhardt]

I will investigate and get back to you.

[Greg Bernhardt]

I did a quick google search for "Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET) chrome" and got lots of results. Doesn't look like a PF problem.

[Jonathan Scott]

I did a quick google search for "Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET) chrome" and got lots of results. Doesn't look like a PF problem.

That might be partly because it's called other things in other browsers, which tend to describe things in text where Chrome just gives the internal stuff.

However, I now see that when I guessed the format of the message (based on a previous similar message which I had copied), I missed an important point which does tend to point to a Chrome bug this time. It actually says "null" instead of a web server address:


This web page is not available.

The web page at null might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

More information on this error


I'm now getting this problem very frequently, getting worse by the minute!

[Jonathan Scott]

I still can't find any problem when using Firefox, so I think that there might well be a Google Chrome problem (it certainly wouldn't be the first). I humbly apologise for even hinting that it might have been the PF server!

[Greg Bernhardt]

I still can't find any problem when using Firefox, so I think that there might well be a Google Chrome problem (it certainly wouldn't be the first). I humbly apologise for even hinting that it might have been the PF server!

No problem, perhaps try and download/install chrome again, you could get a newer build.

[Jonathan Scott]

No problem, perhaps try and download/install chrome again, you could get a newer build.

I'm automatically picking up the "dev" stream; my build already changed twice in the last 24 hours! I've now raised a Chrome issue for it, but it is intermittent and might be tricky to track down.