http://forums.sharethis.com/ ShareThis Forums Tag: error en Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:39:29 +0000 http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-949 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:48:34 +0000 marydev 949@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>The site with this ShareThis element on it is now live.<br /> <a href="http://navyathletes.com/" rel="nofollow">http://navyathletes.com/</a><br /> It's working on the PC, but Mac Safari and Firefox are still creating the error. How long before this will be fixed on the Mac side? Or do you offer a workaround?</p> <p>Thanks<br /> Marydev </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-923 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:18:03 +0000 ShareThisSupport 923@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I assure, you we do know the cause of this issue as well as the solution. Our dev team is currently in the development cycles of this fix and it will be implemented soon. </p> <p>I apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for your patience. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-921 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:09:44 +0000 cormip 921@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Confirming use of Prototype151.js as well </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-916 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:31:24 +0000 jmlecool 916@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Same problem here. I am also using Prototype ...</p> <p>sharethis does not play well with Prototype ... </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-909 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:51:48 +0000 malsmith 909@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I have the same problem - I strongly suspect that is is related to using the prototype.js library (which automatically extends the properties on the button objects) such that the sharethis code tries to encode them all.</p> <p>I have to use prototype.js in my code so if there a solution soon it would be great. Otherwise I have to choose between prototype.js and sharethis. </p> <p>you can reproduce the problem on <a href="http://www.thedailylowdown.com" rel="nofollow">www.thedailylowdown.com</a> - click on any article then click the share button.</p> <p>-Malcolm </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-907 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:31:28 +0000 Manu 907@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Thank you guys for pointing this problem out. I also appreciate all the time that you guys took to debug the issue. The debug info was very useful for isolating the issue. </p> <p>It seems that this problem is limited to the ShareThis Popup implementation, we are working on a fix that will solve this issue.</p> <p>Thank you for using ShareThis.</p> <p>-Manu </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-904 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:13:47 +0000 cormip 904@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Also have the problem, and I know the cause, but not the solution:</p> <p>FireFox 3: "Request-URI Too Large", "The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server."</p> <p>The problem seems to be with the URL parameter "opts_each", which contains a loooong url-encoded string of javascript code.</p> <p>Overall it creates a URL that contains 23,761 characters, which your server at sharethis.com is rejecting.</p> <p>Internet Explorer 7:</p> <p>Just outright crashes, because IE7 only accepts urls with fewer than 2084 characters. See: <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427" rel="nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427</a></p> <p>I confirmed that the long URL visible in FF3 is truncated in IE7.</p> <p>You can see the error occurring here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.besthomepro.com/c/" rel="nofollow">http://www.besthomepro.com/c/</a> </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-901 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:05:58 +0000 lockley 901@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I am also see this same problem, using these browsers:</p> <p> Firefox 3, Safari 3.1.2, Chrome 0.3.154.9, Opera 9.61 (all on windows)</p> <p>However, IE7 is working and not giving me the 414 error (Request-URI Too Large).</p> <p>Are there any updates on this problem?</p> <p>-Lockley </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-900 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:56:10 +0000 marydev 900@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>it's also giving me that error now on Windows XP IE 7 and FIrefox 2 </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-899 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:54:07 +0000 marydev 899@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Yes Mac OSX Version 10.4.11, Firefox 2 and Safari 3.1.2.</p> <p>I'm using AS3<br /> In my flash</p> <p> ExternalInterface.call ("ShareThis_set", "title", "test");<br /> ExternalInterface.call ("ShareThis_set", "url", "http://www.test.com");<br /> //ExternalInterface.call("ShareThis_set", "icon", "http://mysite.com/images/mythumb.jpg");<br /> ExternalInterface.call ("ShareThis_set", "summary", "test");<br /> //ExternalInterface.call("ShareThis_set", "content", "&lt;span&gt;My content&lt;/span&gt;")<br /> var browser:String = ExternalInterface.call("checkBrowser");</p> <p> if (browser.indexOf("Safari") &gt; 1)<br /> {<br /> var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest();<br /> urlRequest.url = "http://w.sharethis.com/widget/safari";<br /> urlRequest.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;</p> <p> navigateToURL (urlRequest, "stframe");<br /> }</p> <p> ExternalInterface.call ("ShareThis_share");</p> <p>and this is in my html</p> <p>&lt;!-- this script must always be called before the ShareObj functions below or you will get undefined errors --&gt;<br /> &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=520384d4-092d-4b3e-a977-bffd38ff4944&amp;embeds=true"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> <p> &lt;script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"&gt;//&lt;![CDATA[</p> <p> /*<br /> * The click event does not get passed to the container in Safari<br /> * so our popup gets blocked. There is a workaraound in the flex<br /> * script but we need to know if this is Safari.</p> <p> */</p> <p> function checkBrowser() { var value = navigator.userAgent; return value; }</p> <p> /*<br /> * Create a sharelet that does not display a button,<br /> * and will generate a popup on share.<br /> */</p> <p> var ShareObj = SHARETHIS.addEntry({}, {button:false, popup:true});</p> <p> /*<br /> * Functions called from mx:Script to update elements<br /> * in the sharelet.<br /> */</p> <p> function ShareThis_set(el, val){<br /> ShareObj.properties[el] = val;<br /> }</p> <p> /*<br /> * The share event executed from mx:Script.<br /> */</p> <p> function ShareThis_share(){<br /> var browser = checkBrowser();<br /> if (browser.indexOf("Safari") &gt; 1) {</p> <p> /*<br /> * Safari will take a moment to launch the new window.<br /> */</p> <p> setTimeout(ShareObj.popup, 500);<br /> } else {<br /> ShareObj.popup();<br /> }<br /> }</p> <p> //]]&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> <p>it was working until Wednesday.</p> <p>THanks for looking </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-898 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:08:14 +0000 craftynation 898@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I'm getting the same thing on Mac FFox, Camino, Safari. this is the error message</p> <p>Request-URI Too Large</p> <p>The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.</p> <p>here</p> <p><a href="http://beta.craftynation.com/articles/19" rel="nofollow">http://beta.craftynation.com/articles/19</a> </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-897 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:22:01 +0000 ShareThisSupport 897@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi Mary, </p> <p>We're unable to replicate this issue. Which browsers are you using that you see this? </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/request-uri-too-large#post-889 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:50:47 +0000 marydev 889@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Started getting this error on Mac Browsers. I see the <a href="http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&#38;charset=utf-8&#38;style=default&#38;publisher=520384d4-092d-4b3e-a977-bffd38ff4944&#38;embeds=true" rel="nofollow">http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&#38;charset=utf-8&#38;style=default&#38;publisher=520384d4-092d-4b3e-a977-bffd38ff4944&#38;embeds=true</a> doc was updated 11/4/08. Is there a bug or a workaround to fix this issue. We are going live the end of next week? It was working fine until 11//5/08???<br /> marydev </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-js-error-container-2tabs-is-not-a-function#post-885 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:50:52 +0000 graham 885@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p><a href="http://www.education.com/activity/all-grades/" rel="nofollow">http://www.education.com/activity/all-grades/</a></p> <p>Environment: ff3 with firebug on windows</p> <p>I can get it to throw the error on first load or when I clear the cache- though some users complain it happens every time. You should see the error thrown to firebug, and the window will not open fully if you can reproduce it.</p> <p>Why do you need to use jquery just to swap over tabs? that seems like some serious overkill- besides, the mootools you had been/are using could do that no problem.</p> <p>-graham </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-js-error-container-2tabs-is-not-a-function#post-878 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:02:17 +0000 hadaya 878@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I'm encountering the same problem with firefox. At first I thought it was due to my dev set up, but the script (almost) works fine on IE, so it's not a server issue.</p> <p>However disabling firebug solved the problem, so you might want to do that if you have it installed on your browser.</p> <p>HTH </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-js-error-container-2tabs-is-not-a-function#post-868 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:34:57 +0000 ShareThisSupport 868@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi Graham, I'd be happy to help troubleshoot the issue. Could you please provide a link to your site? </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-js-error-container-2tabs-is-not-a-function#post-859 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:54:24 +0000 graham 859@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I'm getting a new error recently with my share this button. It has been working fine for months, but now I get:</p> <p>$("#container-2").tabs is not a function </p> <p>When the iframe tries to open in ff3 (windows, if that matters). The error is on line 16 of lightbox.js.</p> <p>lightbox.js seems to be using jquery syntax, is this new? I do see the jquery js chunk included (not as a linked file, which means it wont be cached... :( ). Any ideas? </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-link-contains-causes-jump-to-page-top-in-ie7#post-848 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:27:39 +0000 ShareThisSupport 848@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I do believe that this is unrelated. We are still researching this issue and will update once we know the cause. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-link-contains-causes-jump-to-page-top-in-ie7#post-839 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:31:17 +0000 jbruce 839@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Does this bug also apply to URLs with a querystring? That is, if my URL looks something like:<br /> <a href="http://www.mydomain.com/somefile.htm?someparam=somevalue" rel="nofollow">http://www.mydomain.com/somefile.htm?someparam=somevalue</a><br /> Is this known to not work entirely correctly?</p> <p>I have implemented ST for a site and it mostly works as I expect, but when using the Send/Email feature for a URL similar to my above example, the "preview thumb" does not work. The link itself works, but the preview image does not. It appears as if the ST "preview thumb" script is not correctly passing the URL. I believe it should be URL encoding them and it is not.</p> <p>Is this a known issue and are there any ways around it? </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-link-contains-causes-jump-to-page-top-in-ie7#post-785 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:03:34 +0000 ShareThisSupport 785@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>You've installed ShareThis correctly; this is a current bug in our product that we have fixed for a future release. I apologize for the inconvenience. In the meantime, you can get around this issue by manually assigning the URL you'd like to share with the ShareThis API's .addEntry function. For additional information see <a href="http://sharethis.com/publisher?type=stapi" rel="nofollow">http://sharethis.com/publisher?type=stapi</a> and <a href="http://support.sharethis.com/developers" rel="nofollow">http://support.sharethis.com/developers</a> </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-link-contains-causes-jump-to-page-top-in-ie7#post-776 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:56:11 +0000 Coyote 776@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>When we embed the Sharethis code in our pages, it works fine - until you get to Internet Explorer 7.</p> <p>The problem seems to be that when the code writes the link that lets you expand the sharethis tabs, it sets it up as a link, with an href property of "#".</p> <p>Other browsers ignore this, and fire the onClick behavior assigned to it. For our site, IE7 interprets it as a hyperlink with a value of "#" and in addition to displaying the ShareThis tabs, also shoots the user up to the top of the page.</p> <p>This is, needless to say, undesirable.</p> <p>I find it hard to believe that we're the only ones this is happening to!</p> <p>Did I set something up wrong? Is this a known issue?</p> <p>Most importantly, is there a way to correct this behavior? </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/error-message-in-ie-explorer#post-759 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:14:14 +0000 crowdfavorite 759@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>gnemer1, we looked at your website today in many browsers today, and we aren't seeing the problem. If you are still having the problem let us know, but we aren't seeing it. Please let us know if you are seeing this problem, and if not let us know if you did anything to fix the problem.</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> WP S.T.S. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/error-message-in-ie-explorer#post-743 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:50:19 +0000 ShareThisSupport 743@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi gnemer. I will report this to our WordPress experts and they should contact you shortly. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/error-message-in-ie-explorer#post-742 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:12:29 +0000 gnemer1 742@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Could you please tell me why I get a error message in Internet Explorer for <a href="http://www.reallifepurpose.com." rel="nofollow">http://www.reallifepurpose.com.</a> I have determined that the problem is with the ShareThis plugin because when I deactivate the plugin the error message goes away. I am not experiencing the problem in Firefox.</p> <p>It says "Done but with errors on the page"</p> <p>I tried updating wordpress. I am using the thesis theme for wordpress</p> <p>When I click on the the orange error triangle it gives me these<br /> line:531<br /> char: 39<br /> Error: Expected "}"<br /> Code: 0<br /> url: <a href="http://www.reallifepurpose.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.reallifepurpose.com</a></p> <p>Actually there are 5 different lines and chars with the same error.</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/typeerror-node-is-null-messagenode-is-null#post-683 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:00:41 +0000 blisweb 683@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I had this problem too. It turned out that I didn't follow the ShareThis instructions to the letter and was loading the ShareThis script in the &lt;head&gt; of the page rather than in the &lt;body&gt;. Once I placed the generated script into the DIV where I wanted the button to appear, Firebug stopped reporting the error and everything worked.</p> <p>Hope this helps. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/typeerror-node-is-null-messagenode-is-null#post-678 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:14:08 +0000 michaelg 678@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hello everyone, I am having the same error. I am also using Firebug in Firefox 3 and it errors on the "message" variable and says that the node is null. Has anyone found the fix for this yet? I noticed that ShareThisSupport said that he would be happy to help but there are no updated postes? It seems to still work except it generates an error. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/typeerror-node-is-null-messagenode-is-null#post-651 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:48:01 +0000 himerus 651@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I've got the same error after updating the ShareThis module for Drupal... <a href="http://himerus.com" rel="nofollow">http://himerus.com</a> has the error, as well as my test site <a href="http://himerusinc.com/test/" rel="nofollow">http://himerusinc.com/test/</a> </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/i-cant-add-sharethis-button#post-613 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:37:32 +0000 ShareThisSupport 613@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi Sean, </p> <p>This is an issue on Blogger's side with their widget addition process. We will update <a href="http://support.sharethis.com" rel="nofollow">http://support.sharethis.com</a> as soon as more information comes in or when we have a resolution. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/i-cant-add-sharethis-button#post-607 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:23:30 +0000 SeanFromIT 607@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I have the same problem. That's the error I get if I try copying the widget code directly into my template. If I just click "Add Widget" the following error shows:</p> <p>We're sorry, but we were unable to complete your request.<br /> The following errors were found:<br /> sectionId: Required field must not be blank </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/typeerror-node-is-null-messagenode-is-null#post-577 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:34:36 +0000 greenSkin 577@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Every site I find ShareThis link on has this error. Note if you are using the latest Firebug that you might need to enable the console pane info for the site. This is at least for the latest Firebug for Firefox 3. </p>