Hey,
I’ve just had a CI site fallover with the following errors:
Browser:
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: touch() [function.touch]: Utime failed: Operation not permitted
Filename: third_party/Browscap.php
Line Number: 247
Server Error Log:
[Sun Nov 04 21:42:06 2012] [error] [client *****] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Browscap_Exception' with message 'Bad datetime format from http://browsers.garykeith.com/versions/version-date.asp' in /srv/*****.com.au/www/application/third_party/Browscap.php:500\nStack trace:\n#0 /srv/*****.com.au/www/application/third_party/Browscap.php(450): Browscap->_getRemoteMTime()\n#1 /srv/*****.com.au/www/application/third_party/Browscap.php(326): Browscap->_getRemoteIniFile('http://browsers...', '/srv/*****...')\n#2 /srv/*****.com.au/www/application/third_party/Browscap.php(243): Browscap->updateCache()\n#3 /srv/*****.com.au/www/application/libraries/MY_User_agent.php(387): Browscap->getBrowser(NULL, true)\n#4 /srv/*****.com.au/www/application/libraries/MY_User_agent.php(59): MY_User_agent->getBrowser(NULL, true)\n#5 /srv/*****.com.au/www/system/core/Loader.php(1099): MY_User_agent->__construct()\n#6 /srv/*****.com.au/www/system/core/Loader.php(9 in /srv/******.com.au/www/application/third_party/Browscap.php on line 500
At first i was like cool, it’s just a permission problem, however it doesn’t appear to be that easy. After looking around after seeing the server error log it seems to come down to the fact that Gary Keith has closed his browscap project as of a day or two ago see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/browscap and so the url is therefore not returning the responses required to continue.
I never really knew what browscap was used for but after a bit of digging i see it’s used for the user agent library, and any calls to $this->agent->browser(); etc trigger the error.
Is there any solution to this? Will my other CI sites fall over soon with the same issue?
Thanks in advance!