We were able to temporarily fix the problem by setting everyone to male. Since the display for the user profile is on our site anyway, it doesn't really matter, but it appears that some change was made during the upgrade. So no worries tonight, we can look into it later.

-Elias

Thanks for making the change at your end Elias! I'll look into the issue soon.

OK. The update is done, emergency problems addressed. Time for some shut eye.

Thaks for geting Ars back up.

It's been a bad day with out ars.

BTW can you add more Instant Graemlins?

iSpy From Ars Technica

Forum post counts are off. For example, on the main forum page the Lounge is listed as having "27376" posts.

well, this is why its easier to have one person post feature suggestions here.

we seem to have gotten the whole list of stuff I've already suggested here, in the past 2 days (and on ars)

2 topics y'all might be interested in: OpenTopic Feature Suggestions and Report OpenTopic Bugs.

Hi Elias;

Yep there was a change (in 2.3) re. how the gender member profile field is being validated. It now enforces the value as one of 'M', 'F' or 'U'.

In theory, if you don't include a GENDER param in your SECURITY_CHECK query string then it shouldn't be raising an error (as it will default to 'U'). If you're including an invalid GENDER param value (includes having the param with no value) in the query string then this will cause the error you're seeing.

As the OC API doc doesn't stipulate valid values for the gender profile field, I've made a tweak to the next minor release that will make the OT OC Server more forgiving of unexpected values.

Carl.

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Originally posted by Carl Whitehead:
Yep there was a change (in 2.3) re. how the gender member profile field is being validated. It now enforces the value as one of 'M', 'F' or 'U'.

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Thanks for the confirmation Carl. You're right, we were previously sending the full strings "male" and "female". Our workaround was to just send an "m" and that fixed the problem. We'll modify our code to only send the appropriate single character.

Thanks again for looking into this.

-Elias