02-06-2018, 08:52 AM | #1 |
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I have been unable to access the FLP site for two days to download a book. No matter how I try to access the site I get a "504 Gateway Time-out" error message. Are others having this issue?
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02-06-2018, 09:13 AM | #2 |
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FLP is working for me.Is this the URL you are using? https://freelibrary.overdrive.com/
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02-06-2018, 09:42 AM | #3 |
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I just checked, and I was able to get to the site. I did not try downloading anything.
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Try with your cellphone data. Maybe it's your ISP.
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02-06-2018, 10:38 AM | #6 |
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Good suggestion but that isn't it. I tried using Explorer instead of Firefox and was able to access the site without any problems.
Can anyone confirm that they use Firefox to access FLP? Update: using Firefox support info I cleared cache and cookies and fixed the issue. No idea why just one web site was a problem. Last edited by GeckoFriend; 02-06-2018 at 11:23 AM. Reason: Issue resolved |
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Glad you got it fixed. I use Firefox 56.x until one plugin is written for the new Firefox. It will be eventually.
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If you have a malformed cookie for a website, that can cause problems. It isn't a common thing, but it does happen from time to time.
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I was going to explain some things can cause 504 errors, but I see you're already good to go. Bottom line: 504's are not something you can fix on your end, and they often resolve on their own (from your perspective). They are typically intermittent and short lived. If your browser cached a 504 page and was displaying that to you from cache and not going out to try to retrieve the actual current page, that would explain it. Although, a web browser should not cache an error page unless due to poor programming or a bug.
Then I looked at the specific link you were asking about, freelibrary.overdrive.org, and thought - Neat! A free overdrive library I might be able to use in addition to my local overdrive one. Well, it looks like it's free as long as you consider $50 per year to be "free". Oh well, What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away. |
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If you live in Pennsylvania it is completely free. Out of state it is "free" to open enroll for a fee. Not all libraries allow out of state members to begin with.
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(As a side note, now I can't get to the site. "IP Address could not be found" error. Tried in three different browsers.) EDIT: I got there by following the links on their main site. It's not freelibrary.overdrive.org, it's https://freelibrary.overdrive.com/ (.com instead of .org) – even though the main site is .org. It seems like they could set up a re-direct for that fairly easily (since they own the freelibrary.org domain). EDIT: Not very quick today. freelibrary.overdrive.com is subdomain of Overdrive, not Free Library. (Now I'll just shut up and slink on out of here.) Last edited by rcentros; 02-10-2018 at 02:26 PM. |
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Searching Overdrive, I get: Philadelphia - 27,976 all eBooks; 25365 English language Kindle Pittsburgh - 76,707 all eBooks; 68,287 English languaue Kindle Brooklyn - 119,670 all eBooks; 101,636 English language Kindle I'm not sure you can easily get the numbers for the smaller collections like Freading and the Cloud Library, but I think the above numbers give a good picture. As a Pennsylvanian, I can and do get library cards from the larger collections in my state. Pittsburgh is good. But the library I borrow from the most is the one I pay, Brooklyn. Of course, it's not just a matter of numbers. A lot depends on how close your taste is to that of the librarians. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 02-10-2018 at 02:37 PM. |
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how to apply free?
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