So this is just a txt file on a server... why is it completely blank when I open it? I could understand if there was a SQL database and a heavy PHP application serving requests and the system ran out of memory or Apache ran out of open connections... but it's a txt file. I could even see there being an incompatibility between my browser and the site's coding. Maybe they're using fancy new Javascript techniques or their CSS doesn't play well with Safari... but it's a txt file.
I guess it's modern software at its worst: we can't even display a plaintext file in the browser reliably.
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So this is just a txt file on a server... why is it completely blank when I open it? I could understand if there was a SQL database and a heavy PHP application serving requests and the system ran out of memory or Apache ran out of open connections... but it's a txt file. I could even see there being an incompatibility between my browser and the site's coding. Maybe they're using fancy new Javascript techniques or their CSS doesn't play well with Safari... but it's a txt file.
I guess it's modern software at its worst: we can't even display a plaintext file in the browser reliably.
From what I understood it's actually a proxy to some gopher server. And it returns an HTML page with css etc and not just a txt file. Funny stuff.
http://pastebin.com/raw/fqqf06AD
I think the page is just down at the moment. Even when using curl it doesn't return anything.
On Vivaldi here, can't see it either :)
macOS Sierra, Chrome, empty page.