Is there a bug of online Browsable Database of Childes?

Fri Mar 18 18:01:11 UTC 2011

Dear Xiaowei,
    Many thanks for the bug report.  This is some new thing and I am getting the same 
error you are getting.  Hopefully, we can fix this soon.

--Brian MacW

On Mar 18, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Xiaowei Zhao wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I am training my student research assistant on learning Childes and we
> notice that there might be a small problem on Browsable Database. I
> just want to check if this is a problem that other colleagues also
> have or just a problem related to my computers.
> 
> When we wanted to check the content of one file, say Eve01.cha of
> Brown corpus "http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/browser/index.php?url=Eng-USA/Brown/Eve/eve01.cha",
> we followed the path and could get it without any problem. But strange
> things occurred after we got there. We want to switch to another file
> also under the folder Eve, so we clicked the link of eve02.cha under
> the left column. But the content of the file fail to be loaded, and a
> error message was displayed as following:
> 
> 0	@Loc:	Eng-USA/Brown/Eve/eve01.chaeve02.cha
> 1	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
> 2	<html><head>
> 3	<title>404 Not Found</title>
> 4	</head><body>
> 5	<h1>Not Found</h1>
> 6	<p>The requested URL /data-orig/Eng-USA/Brown/Eve/eve01.chaeve02.cha
> was not found on this server.</p>
> 7	</body></html>
> 
> The only way we can reach eve02.cha is to click the folder "Eve" on
> the left column first, and then click the link for eve02.cha (so two
> clicks). I checked it with IE and Firefox on three different computers
> with windows XP or Windows 7. So I guess it could be a problem on the
> server side (say some thing wrong on php script), but I am not sure.
> What I am sure is the problem did not exist last year when I taught my
> class Childes. I know it is only a difference between two clicks and
> one click, but I still want to bring it into your attention.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Xiaowei
> 
> Xiaowei Zhao, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Psychology
> Emmanuel College
> 400 The Fenway
> Boston, MA 02115
> 
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