Autopia Car Care Sweepstakes

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Bobby G

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Autopia Car Care is pleased to announce a WEEKLY sweepstakes contest offering a $50 Gift Certificate to the sweepstakes winner.



* You must enter to win.

* You must be an Autopia.org member to enter.

* Single entry only.

* Winner drawn automatically by random number program every Monday.

* Winners excluded from future contests for six months.

* Winners notified via email.

* New Autopia.org members included in Sweepstakes automatically on the week they join.

* Banned members and members on timeout are not authorized.



The program I'm writing is still very rough. If you experience a bug, please notify me.



In the next version, members who enter our sweepstakes will receive email confirmation as well as a "One-Click" re-enter email the following week.



To enter the sweepstakes you are required to use your Forum ID and your Forum email address.



Enjoy, and good luck!



David



Autopia Car Care Sweepstakes
 
I see a few people have managed to signup.



Josh, what error do you get when you try to browse to the link?



Charlie, I don't know what your problem is. I will try to add you and see what happens.
 
Charlie, I was able to add you with no problem. I suspect you were entering your forum password and not your forum email address.
 
David: When I try to go to the website it takes about 40 seconds and then I get an error saying Unable to connect

"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ratings.theperfectshine.com:82."
 
Josh,



Thanks. I did not test w/ Firefox. I will and see if I can fix the problem. In the meantime, if you have IE, it should work for you.



db



UPDATE:



I'm testing with FireFox now and it loads just fine. All I see are a few formatting issues with a table. What version of FireFox are you using? What OS?



db
 
DavidB said:
Josh,



Thanks. I did not test w/ Firefox. I will and see if I can fix the problem. In the meantime, if you have IE, it should work for you.



db
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I didn't submit my name, but I was able to navigate to the page using Firefox, and everything looked OK on the surface . . . not sure what Joshua312 ran into.



Tort
 
David,



I tried with IE as well and had the same problem, it must be the server filter I am using right now. I am using a wi-fi public access hotspot right now so sometimes it does funny things. I will try again when I get home...thank you!
 
Here's what I got....





Network Error (tcp_error)





A communication error occurred: "Operation timed out"

The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.



For assistance, contact your network support team.
 
Kikkomann said:
Is this contest (sweepstakes) also open to non-US residents? :nervous2:
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YES! The winner receives a $50 gift certificate. As long as you live in one of the counties Autopia Car Care ships to, you're in like flint!



Bad news Kikkomann... we don not currently ship to the PI. We may soon, as I am working on better fraud prevention. Enter anyway, because I can work with you if you win.



db
 
DavidB said:
A little help on the error you're getting and I might be able to track it down.



TIA!



db
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I had trouble accessing the page here at school. So I remotely access my home computer ( http://www.logmein.com ) and it brought up the page with no problems.



Web browsers like firefox or IE didnt make a difference either here or at home.



I believe the issue stems down to DNS ( dynamic naming services.) I think some ISPs DNS are having trouble decoding your URL because of the :82 in it. David you could either give the IP ( xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:82/contest.asp ) possibly or you users that are having problems could try using http://www.opendns.com/ as your dns server. of course this doesnt solve problems users have in public places like work and school.



http://ratings.theperfectshine.com:82/contest.asp



I tried doing a look up but this didnt work.

67.15.4.16:82/contest.asp





test.jpg
 
deadlock32 said:
I had trouble accessing the page here at school. So I remotely access my home computer ( http://www.logmein.com ) and it brought up the page with no problems.



Web browsers like firefox or IE didnt make a difference either here or at home.



I believe the issue stems down to DNS ( dynamic naming services.)
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Good point. This is a temporary location for the page. I coded the program in a few hours in ASP. I don't have ASP on the autopia.org server and the Yahoo Store that www.autopia-carcare.com is on has no scripting at all.



I will look for a better solution. Thanks for the tip that it might be a DNS problem.



P.S., If you ping ratings.theperfectshine.com:82 it works fine. You don't ping the page itself.
 
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