Is it just me, or is the Farnell website broken at the moment? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: HwAoRrDk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 01:45:10 pm
content: Have been trying in vain to have a look at some stuff on the Farnell website yesterday and today, but it seems to be hideously broken.If I try and visit any product category URL - e.g.http://uk.farnell.com/c/passive-components/resistors-fixed-valueorhttp://uk.farnell.com/c/test-measurement/oscilloscopes- I just get an error message from the browser telling me it got redirected too many times. Firefox says "The page isn't redirecting properly" and Chrome says "uk.farnell.com redirected you too many times". The CPC website is doing the exact same thing.Searching for products seems to work just fine, though, and any URL to a category that doesn't have a 'nice' URL (i.e.http://uk.farnell.com/CategoryDisplay?storeId=10151&urlLangId=44&urlRequestType=Base&categoryId=700000005447&langId=44&catalogId=15001) also works as expected. Infinite redirect problems have to be server-side issues. I suspect something cocked with their server's URL rewriting config.Is it just me?Tried the Newark (US) and Element14 (AU) websites just now and they don't seem to be affected.

author: voltsandjolts
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 01:51:04 pm
content: Yeh, me too.

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 04:03:25 pm
content: Confirmed from NY, USA

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 04:07:04 pm
content: Maybe Farnell is one of the Wannacry victims. Or their ISP.

author: HwAoRrDk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 04:11:17 pm
content: Have found a work-around of getting at working category links by visiting the 'all products' page (http://uk.farnell.com/browse-for-products); all the links therein function.Ugh, but I also discover now that they've managed to screw up the product filtering too! If I apply some filters, then change the sort order, it completely forgets the filtering!

author: RGB255_0_0
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 04:15:24 pm
content: Farnell's UI infuriates me so unless I can't get something at RS or find in a Google search I don't bother.

author: bookaboo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 05:24:37 pm
content: No Farnell issues here but RS is doing weird stuff now... wont sort by attribute... cant check stock etc.

author: Karel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 05:26:17 pm
content: Quote from: HwAoRrDk on May 15, 2017, 04:11:17 pmI noticed that as well. A workaround is to use the dropdown box to change the order.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 05:38:04 pm
content: Quote from: HwAoRrDk on May 15, 2017, 01:45:10 pmSame here. I already sent in a complaint. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

author: HwAoRrDk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 05:41:47 pm
content: Quote from: Karel on May 15, 2017, 05:26:17 pmNo, it's doing it to me with both the drop-down box and the column headers.Quote from: nctnico on May 15, 2017, 05:38:04 pmYeah, I too e-mailed their website support earlier, but only got back a boilerplate "have you tried clearing your cache and cookies?" response, plus a suggestion that the example URLs I gave weren't valid any more because "our website is always changing, so bookmarks may become defunct".

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 06:33:09 pm
content: Analog.com was also broken this morning for order entry. Spoke with customer service there and was told it was related to the ransomware thing.John

author: RGB255_0_0
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 06:36:41 pm
content: Quote from: jpanhalt on May 15, 2017, 06:33:09 pm

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 06:40:00 pm
content: Quote from: RGB255_0_0 on May 15, 2017, 06:36:41 pmSorry, I must have lost my sense of humor. Do you have a message?

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 10:51:21 pm
content: May even be an indirect Wannacry hit. Everyone who can spell IT is up to their armpits in system restoration so lots of normal maintenance is probably taking a serious hit. All of that "restoration" by emergency call-ins can also be expected to leave a few undotted i's and uncrossed t's.Grammar police attack at will. I literally don't know how to write a plural I so you can distinguish it from the two letter word that looks like a plural i. And don't care enough to look it up.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 11:08:52 pm
content: According to the Dutch grammer rules i's would be the right plural form of a single i so you won't hear me complaining

author: sca
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2017, 11:31:15 pm
content: Quote from: HwAoRrDk on May 15, 2017, 05:41:47 pmOne way around it losing selection criteria when sorting by price is to paste &SORT=P_PRICE to the url manually.sca

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2017, 01:57:16 am
content: Quote from: CatalinaWOW on May 15, 2017, 10:51:21 pmNo, I am pretty sure the plural of I is I's.However, you forgot to capitalize your I.