Hopefully it's where steam is trying to filter out the animated motd's such as youtube. Some admin's don't think about how they force the client to play a video as they enter the server. They try to trick the client into pressing the stop button which then causes something else to load. If you do nothing to stop the video then you are forced to listen to the the ad's from youtube till it stops. Only alternative is to disable the HTML motd in the clients settings, which effects static html files also. Sry for the rant, but i hope this is why for the issues in the motd.
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 5:42 PM, DoGz Gaming <[email protected]> wrote: > This MOTD problem exists on CSS as well since the July 2 update. It will > not display the motd on the first server you join. Once you join a second > server the motd works as usual for all servers, including the first one you > joined if you return. It is pretty ridiculous that we have to use the page > refresh trick to fix this. Please Valve, this has been around for a long > time, lets get it fixed. > > TigerOx > > > On 2012-08-25 17:25, doc wrote: > >> I found that with "forked" TF2 servers, if you define a different motdfile >> then it doesn't take effect until the next mapchange. At least in my case, >> my MvM server is launched from the same files as my PvP server but I load >> different servercfgfile and motds, but the motd is default until a map >> change. >> >> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Herover <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I've had the same problem for some time ago. This is how my motd.txt >>> looks >>> now: >>> >>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" >>> >>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/**DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd> >>> "> >>> <html> >>> <head> >>> <title>lol</title> >>> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> >>> <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url=URL TO WEBSERVER"> >>> <style> >>> body{background:black;} >>> h1{color:red;} >>> p{color:green;} >>> </style> >>> </head> >>> <body> >>> <h1>blablabla</h1> >>> </body> >>> </html> >>> >>> For me, it seemded like I had to wait some time before it acutally >>> worked, but it loads everytime just fine right now. Sometimes, the >>> html is showed before the actual website-motd is showed.... >>> >>> 2012/8/25 Anime Siege <[email protected]>: >>> > I have also been having the same problem recently. >>> > On Aug 24, 2012 6:36 PM, "Steven Haigh" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> >> I've also just come across a strange one... >>> >> >>> >> My setup is as follows: >>> >> username: tf2server >>> >> home: /home/tf2server >>> >> >>> >> Everything is installed under ~/hlds/ >>> >> >>> >> I have created ~/hlds/server-1/ and ~/hlds/server-2/ >>> >> >>> >> I have loaded everything from steam for TF2 in ~/hlds/common/. >>> >> >>> >> I went through and symlinked (ln -s) content from ~/hlds/common/blah >>> to >>> >> ~/hlds/server-1/blah and only linked server.cfg to ~/server-1.cfg and >>> >> ~/server-2.cfg in the respective directories. >>> >> >>> >> The game seems to run fine, however it seems that the motd doesn't >>> show >>> >> anymore (or fails randomly) when people connect. >>> >> >>> >> I have the following links: >>> >> $ find . | grep motd.txt >>> >> ./hlds/server-2/orangebox/tf/****motd.txt >>> >> ./hlds/server-1/orangebox/tf/****motd.txt >>> >> >>> >> These are symlinks to ~/motd-1.txt and ~/motd-2.txt. >>> >> >>> >> motd-1.txt & motd-2.txt contain a single line: >>> >> $ cat motd-1.txt >>> >> http://gaming.crc.id.au/motd/****motd.html<http://gaming.crc.id.au/motd/**motd.html> >>> < >>> http://gaming.crc.id.au/motd/**motd.html<http://gaming.crc.id.au/motd/motd.html> >>> > >>> >> $ >>> >> >>> >> I have taken a peek at the apache server logs for this, and the client >>> >> does pull down at least the html - even when it doesn't display... >>> >> >>> >> When I load this into a web browser, it seems fine. The TF2 game >>> however >>> >> randomly shows a blank gray square. >>> >> >>> >> Any ideas? o_O >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Steven Haigh >>> >> >>> >> Email: [email protected] >>> >> Web: http://www.crc.id.au >>> >> Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 >>> >> Fax: (03) 8338 0299 >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ______________________________****_________________ >>> >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> >> please visit: >>> >> https://list.valvesoftware.****com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/*** >>> *hlds_linux< >>> https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds_linux<https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> >>> > >>> >> >>> > ______________________________**_________________ >>> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> > https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds_linux<https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds_linux<https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds_linux<https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds_linux<https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
