Tickets on sale Sunday 7 Oct

[Al2006]

So what is this exclusive Glastonbury Festival news coming tomorrow... is it regarding the line up?

Also it is the Pilton Party this Friday- will we be getting some more rumours then? As I recall normally some stuff gets out at the party And also the bands playing will obviously be playing Glastonbury too (but the line up doesn't look good...)

Edited September 5, 2012 by Al2006

[eFestivals]

So what is this exclusive Glastonbury Festival news coming tomorrow... is it regarding the line up?

Also it is the Pilton Party this Friday- will we be getting some more rumours then? As I recall normally some stuff gets out at the party And also the bands playing will obviously be playing Glastonbury too (but the line up doesn't look good...)

if we give you the exclusive now it won't be tomorrow, will it?

We might get wind of something at PP, we might not. No year is the same.

[addsend]

So what is this exclusive Glastonbury Festival news coming tomorrow... is it regarding the line up?

Edited September 5, 2012 by addsend

[Pinhead]

You've got a bit carried away, without checking the basics.

I said a redirection of some sort - without having checked anything at that point - and now I have, that's defo right.

If you ping www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk it gives you the IP address it's hosted on. If you ping glastonbury.seetickets.com it gives you the different IP address for that domain's server.

And yet if you access glastonbury.seetickets.com, you get re-directed to (the real) www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

So there's either a simple redirect page on glastonbury.seetickets.com, or (more likely) the domain configuration on that server for glastonbury.seetickets.com does a simple redirect to www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk (just as I do on my servers with some of my domains).

The advantage of this set-up (rather than using DNS to sernd the request to the relevant server) is that when you want to use the glastonbury.seetickets.com sub-domain, it's a simple case of changing the domain set-up on that server and it's instantly active (rather than having to wait for the DNS to propagate, which can take up-to 48 hours for all users).

Funnily enough, I've do9ne something very much like that today with the new beefy server I've just put in and you're using now to read this post.

[Jie Bie]

Has anyone here figured out how to update their photo on the glasto registration site? I can get onto the screen to update name/address/email etc, but it won't let me change the photo.

It's my girlfriend's registration and she's got a different hair colour and would rather it matched as I wouldn't like to run the risk of us not getting in!

[eFestivals]

Aw, I wish I hadn't seen that. I'm going to be excited now.

Is it exciting? Is it something I should be excited about? I feel I should be getting excited.

It's not exciting at all.

[eFestivals]

What confuses me is that if that is the case, how come you still see the "glastonbury.seetickets.com" hostname in the URL rather than a "glastonburyfestivals.co.uk" string? Plus how come the certificate still contains their domain name?

when I tried it previously was defo re-directing, complete with changed URL (in firefox anyway).

And I just tried it via a tool I have installed, which tells me it's redirecting elswhere via HTML (whether that's via an actual page or a server re-direct I'm not entirely sure).

If I could be bothered I could hunt down a few tools which could tell me more ... but there's really no need. It's simply one of the See servers redirecting the request to the Glasto official site.

[eFestivals]

using a wget to both servers returns a byte-identical page .... it's a server redirect to TOS.

[Mardy]

you know, I hate to take the wind out of Neil's sails, and for me to pre-empt his exclusive is pretty shitty behaviour, but what the hell...

Bodger and Badger will be performing in the childrens field.

not enough? alright then..

Attila The Stockbroker will be on in the cabaret/words and poetry tent.

Don't say I never give you nothing. Solid gold, those. *taps nose*

[eFestivals]

You missed out that Fatboy Slim is performing.

But it's none of those.

[dirty_dog]

does anyone still have the back door link?, I did have it but put windows 7 on since and didn't bother to save it.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

does anyone still have the back door link?, I did have it but put windows 7 on since and didn't bother to save it.

[dirty_dog]

Not only do I not have it, I also don't know what the fuck it is. It does sound intruiging though. Got to ask - is having such a link perceived as helpful in buying Glasto tickets?

[thetime]

Not only do I not have it, I also don't know what the fuck it is. It does sound intruiging though. Got to ask - is having such a link perceived as helpful in buying Glasto tickets?

[jackarmy]

You missed out that Fatboy Slim is performing.

But it's none of those.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

it's the second webpage that everyone will be trying to get to come the 7th Oct, just a little advantage but you still have a long way to go.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Dont wprry its 0nly sexual innuendo.

[thetime]

My main problem is im seeing radiohead on the sat night, so im hoping for wireless in the hotel in manchester...think im going to take it easy on the beer front.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

My main problem is im seeing radiohead on the sat night, so im hoping for wireless in the hotel in manchester...think im going to take it easy on the beer front.

[eFestivals]

there is no back door link.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME BELIEVING PEOPLE WHO CLAIM THERE IS - all you'll be doing is lessening your chances of getting a ticket.

[westwardhoboy]

What was the opinion on the see tickets auto-queing / auto-refresh system? Did it actually work? I got in it early doors, did a manual refresh and got kicked out, eventually getting tickets at about 11.55am, scary! If in auto queue, should you stay in it??

Thanks

[thetime]

Can't you ring them to find out if they have wireless? That way you'd know if you needed to find somewhere else to get internet access. Even then you should trawl for that information beforehand so you're there at 9am.

[eFestivals]

the See Tickets 'queue' is not really a queue. It's simply a timed (every 20 secs I think) refreshing page, which will let you thru to the next step when either the server load has dropped or a threshold for the number of active transactions has been dropped below.

If you got 'kicked out', it's very probably the case that it was really their server system being unable to handle even all those 'queue' pages.

For the biggest possible chance:-

- use a number of different browsers, rather than many windows of just one browser.

- use a number of different computers (each with a number of different browsers), rather than many windows of just one browser.

- also try using any mobile devices you have, as it's possible (tho I think unlikely) that those are handled by a different server system that might have less load.

... and then try, try, and try again, using manual refreshes on that 'queuing' page, as you'll manually refresh quicker that the queue page will.

The more attempts, the greater chance you have - because it is just chance for who gets thru and who doesn't.

Don't waste time hunting for and trying any 'backdoor' methods which people might claim to know. The simple fact is that a person feels special when they've succeeded when so many others are failing, which leads them to often think that they've found a special way to do things which has given them that success. It really is bollocks; it's just chance.

DO NOT give your payment card details to someone who is not your firm real-world friend (so NO 'internet friends'!!). There are scumbags out there who will rob you. Do you want to be robbed more than you want a Glastonbury ticket?

[westwardhoboy]

Excellent. Thanks Neil

We do the several computers routine, but always used same browser, multi page option, so will try multi browsers.

Cheers

the See Tickets 'queue' is not really a queue. It's simply a timed (every 20 secs I think) refreshing page, which will let you thru to the next step when either the server load has dropped or a threshold for the number of active transactions has been dropped below.

If you got 'kicked out', it's very probably the case that it was really their server system being unable to handle even all those 'queue' pages.

For the biggest possible chance:-

- use a number of different browsers, rather than many windows of just one browser.

- use a number of different computers (each with a number of different browsers), rather than many windows of just one browser.

- also try using any mobile devices you have, as it's possible (tho I think unlikely) that those are handled by a different server system that might have less load.

... and then try, try, and try again, using manual refreshes on that 'queuing' page, as you'll manually refresh quicker that the queue page will.

The more attempts, the greater chance you have - because it is just chance for who gets thru and who doesn't.

Don't waste time hunting for and trying any 'backdoor' methods which people might claim to know. The simple fact is that a person feels special when they've succeeded when so many others are failing, which leads them to often think that they've found a special way to do things which has given them that success. It really is bollocks; it's just chance.

DO NOT give your payment card details to someone who is not your firm real-world friend (so NO 'internet friends'!!). There are scumbags out there who will rob you. Do you want to be robbed more than you want a Glastonbury ticket?

[eFestivals]

We do the several computers routine, but always used same browser, multi page option, so will try multi browsers.

I'm not 100% that using multi browsers does actually give an advantage, but there's a logical case for why it might (without knowing all the details of See's system it's not possible to know).

But as it's no disadvantage over using multi windows, I defo think it's worth a try. If what I'm thinking about how their system works is right, then 3 different browsers will increase your chances by three times over using three windows - and that's quite a difference!