FF Server Connection Fails

I have the same issue, Server maintainance ??

We're experiencing an unusually high traffic which means an increase in the server load. Please wait for the tide to fall

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Adu wrote: for over a week

No, our traffic has returned back to normal.

Broken here as well, which is annoying since I need a good cloth filter (to make a texture look like it's a rug) to finish today's project. btw, filterforge.net is reported as an untrusted site by Microsoft. I know it isn't, but that can't be helping this issue.

You can use this site to check the server availability.

I have just seen that when clicking on the "Filter Library:Download more filters" it takes you right to the FF website and opens it (so THERE IS INTERNET !! ) but when trying to download any filter it keeps telling the same error

Unable to connect to the server. Please make sure you are connected to the internet

I have found in this other thread

http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read...5&TID=6646

That the Library server is in filterforge.net

so checking again Is www.filterforge.net down for everyone or just me?

The answer is

It's just you. http://www.filterforge.net is up

Well, it can be up, but for some reason it can´t connect with the filter forge software.

Yep, it's definitely broken. I emailed GMM, who ignored the question, and change my registration information instead. As expected, this served no useful purpose.

We will have to wait until someone fr om the Filter Forge team can cast some light about this and tell us why is happening this and wh ere is the error.

AND MOST IMPORTANT

When is going to be solved in some way ?

OK .. I may have found a solution!

I updated to FF2 today and was having the same server connection issue as described here.
Im on Windows 7 64 bit with IE9.
So on a hunch I clicked on the IE9 Compatibility View Icon (the broken page icon on the righ hand end of the address bar).
Lo and behold .. the filters now download correctly and Updates work !!

Give it a try!

Doesn't seem to be a workaround with Firefox.

I'm guessing ..that this was a result of Microsoft releasing 8 security vulnerability patches last Tuesday.
One of the patches in particular, "Vulnerability in MHTML Could Allow Information Disclosure (2544893)" probabaly effected the way that filter forges MHTML protocol filterforge:// was handled by the windows subsystem responsbile.
Which would explain why it appears to have effected all browsers, and not just IE9. And also why it started on June 14th.

Chrome and FF appear to redirect the filterforge MIME type back to the browser user, now asking that the User "enable cookies and click this link" (you will get this message whether you have cookies enabled or not, because the page is simply about to write a cookie that remembers whether or not you have verified the relationship between the filterforge:// protocol and the filterforge.exe application).

After clicking the "enable cookies and click this link" link you will be taken back to the filter information page. But this time when you click Open this filter in filterforge, you will be asked by the browser to verify the .exe progam that will run the protocl. Just select Filter Forge (for firefox) or Accept the warning (for Chrome) and the filter will then proceed to download.