Now this is ill informed post if I ever saw one - the ads in the MOTD are not causing this issue. There have been instances when they had some bad ads but they were quick to fix it. It's not a bad thing to want to recover costs incurred for running well managed servers - people need to stop seeing this as a bad thing. You only see the ads for maybe a moment then you can click right by them but they do help support good managed servers.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carl Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HTML MOTDs not rendering? I hope this isn't for one of those really annoying HTML ads that some degenerate servers have been abusing their players with. On 9/12/2012 4:41 AM, Bjorn Wielens wrote: > Hi all, > > This was touched on in a previous post - Does anyone know a solution for MOTDs not rendering (just a gray box, not even a background/plain text shows). > > I've had this happen to me with both HTML motds and plain text contained in the motd.txt file. > > The weird things are that: > > a) some people can see the MOTDs fine. > b) right clicking the box and hitting 'view source' shows the HTML content of the correct MOTD page > c) I've gotten it to show up for me exactly once. > > > Running our servers on Linux, there's no flash content or ads in the motd, and they render fine in a webkit-based browser. > I've tried both just the MOTD url in motd.txt as well as a META refresh to redirect. both have the same result. > > If anyone knows of a fix, I'm all ears as we're in a situation where most of our traffic is passthru Quickplay, and I'd like to at least inform them about server rules and the existence of our other servers/extended/non-tf2 community > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
