I got it on this one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U16XShROI8
500 Internal error at YouTube
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Re: 500 Internal error at YouTube
#12Anyone know what's in that debug information the 500 error page spits out?
Looks base64 encoded to me, but running it through a decoder isn't giving me anything intelligible. Here's a OCR of the text in the image, maybe you can figure it out:
Edit: Full text is in sibling comment.
Re: 500 Internal error at YouTube
#13Hm... wonder if there's a library that could do something similar. It's an interesting idea encrypting your error that I haven't seen in many places.
Is it encrypted? Too lazy to OCR and `base64 -d` myself...
It's my assumption at least. It would be a bit sloppy of you tube to just base64 it.
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#14Well, you can get a 500 error from facebook via this URL.
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#15"If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them)" Love this!
Seems we've scared the Google monkeys away from HN again. Now we'll never get an AMA.
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#16Hm... wonder if there's a library that could do something similar. It's an interesting idea encrypting your error that I haven't seen in many places.
Is it encrypted? Too lazy to OCR and `base64 -d` myself...
It would appear so, someone on StackOverflow posted the full text but decoding it returns nothing intelligible.
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#17Hm... wonder if there's a library that could do something similar. It's an interesting idea encrypting your error that I haven't seen in many places.
What could the purpose of an encrypted error be? If it's a server side error it's already in their logs.
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#19I got a similar 500 Internal error trying to watch a video (not search, not front page). First 6 characters appear to be the same for the error: http://pastebin.com/ibxLurkr
I wonder if someone could make sense of the error or if it's actually encrypted.
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#20Hm... wonder if there's a library that could do something similar. It's an interesting idea encrypting your error that I haven't seen in many places.
What could the purpose of an encrypted error be? If it's a server side error it's already in their logs.
I've used something like this before so it's easy to lookup the exact error that they saw.
Generally i just do something like an sha of the error and time, and spit out like the first 10 bytes or something (as well as put that in the log line), i'm just looking for something i can grep for.