when there is a bug in the Perseus library is it forever or are they gonna fix it? I have been reading Cyropaedia, and the second chapter of the second book is now unavailable online. Hos to ask them to fix it?
I’ve found that most Perseus bugs are forever or equivalent. However, 2.2 seems up to me.
But may I suggest: Xen. Cyrop. 2.2
no, it is not viewable on my pc.
It didn’t show up for me at first either, but then I clicked on various links and it started showing up.
I think it started working after clicking on the left:
View text chunked by: chapter
That link does not work for me. I have to correct it to the following: Xen. Cyrop. 2.2.1
yes this link works but from the perseus website it does not, why?
You got me curious. The bug is a server-side 500 error, which is hard to diagnose from our side.
But not impossible.
To trigger the bug:
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Go to Xen. Cyrop. 2.1.1 in an incognito window on your browser
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Click the chapter 2 link at either the top or the side. Note “An Error Occurred Page”
To avoid the bug:
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Go to Xen. Cyrop. 2.1.1 in an incognito window on your browser
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Click “View text chunked by:” → chapter
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Click the chapter 2 link at either the top or the side. No error.
What’s happening? I suspect that there is a cookie lookup (why though? a tracker?) on Xen. Cyrop. 2.2.1. If you go to the page without cookies set in your browser (ie., an incognito window, or using something like Tor), you’ll hit the error page.
Workarounds:
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Click something to generate a cookie. Ie., “View text chunked by:” → chapter
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Use “search” link format, as in my good link above: Xen. Cyrop. 2.2.1
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Read a PDF of the OCT version, and leave Perseus behind forever.
it has already happened several times to me while reading Cyr.