[SOLVED] Is it just me or what? Cannot load IATE website

sombragris · 03-02-2020, 10:59 PM

I need to access some terminology databases as part of my translation work. Today, I wanted to use IATE, the European Union terminology database:

https://iate.europa.eu/

Tried to load it with both -current's stock Firefox 68.5 ESR and Alien Bob's Chromium 80. In both cases the website remains stuck on the splash screen.

Booting into Windows, the site loads normally under Windows 10.

Spoofing the user agent string does nothing.

Asked on other forums to see whether other Linux users could load the site, and according to their reports, the site loaded without trouble.

Is it just me or Slackware cannot load that site properly...? Thanks in advance.

bassmadrigal · 03-02-2020, 11:18 PM

Worked on my 14.2 running an outdated Chrome v78.0.3904.97 installed from ruario's latest-chrome.sh script and on Firefox 68.5 ESR from ruario's latest-firefox.sh script. I don't have an up-to-date -current to test on.

Gordie · 03-02-2020, 11:37 PM

I have Firefox 73 loaded on an up to date Slackware64-Current. Your link loaded just fine for me

keeneadt · 03-02-2020, 11:38 PM

May be you block cookies? As for me the site stucks on loading screen if i block cookies, but works fine with unblocked cookies.

Mark Pettit · 03-03-2020, 02:50 AM

It worked fine for me - even with blocking cookies. Firefox 68.4.2 esr. It translated German "freund" to English "friend" perfectly fine. Takes me back to school (40 years ago) doing German as a 3rd language.

remmilou · 03-03-2020, 03:27 AM

Have you checked your firewall settings?
Have you checked your tcp-wrappers? (/etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow)
Have you checked your /etc/hosts file?

chrisretusn · 03-03-2020, 07:16 AM

Works for me too, 68.5.0esr (64-bit)

hazel · 03-03-2020, 09:32 AM

Worked with my FF too. I noticed noscript blocked a script but I still got through.

sombragris · 03-03-2020, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by keeneadt

May be you block cookies? As for me the site stucks on loading screen if i block cookies, but works fine with unblocked cookies.

I was unable to load the site even after disabling any adblocker and accepting all cookies.

sombragris · 03-03-2020, 12:57 PM

Thanks to everyone. Marking the thread as solved.

Today the IATE website loaded normally.

Upon inspection of the various consoles available into our browsers, it seems that the whole thing is a JavaScript file of 4MB, and that script (identified as main.<somenumber>.js) could not load itself yesterday. The connection kept resetting and resetting. Now, why this happened only in Slackware while in Windows 10 could be loaded normally, still baffles me. Thanks to everyone again for your feedback.