Weird Story Submission Freeze/Error

[nickv]

I could have sworn I saw this posted somewhere when I wasn't seeing it (so naturally I ignored it ) Now that I'm seeing this problem, I can't find it anywhere (maybe it was a figment of my imagination!)

Whenever I try to link to some stories at the New York Times, the site freezes up for a long time (like 2 - 5 minutes... I assume its the time it takes for a connection time out) and then just breaks (sometimes a blank page, sometimes a page with a broken story and some errors)

It's only some stories on the NYT, but its consistent for those. Here's a good example: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/realestate/15cov.html

I see this on both my local install and on pligg.com (and unfortunately on the beta 6 preview page too ) Anyone have any idea?

Thanks guys. Great work!
Nick

[SpyMy]

Yeah I had that a few times, then it gives a bunch of errors a missing url and url title 1.

It seems like it happens when the webserver can't reach that site due to a routing problem or something and the fsocket times out.

I just fill in the details manually, then go to the database and edit the URL and URL_title fields for that entry (in the links table).