Ageless, who\'s a moderator on the boinc development forum, has asked me to copy this post here. He said:

If you have any of the following problems, can you please leave information for these questions?

1) OS and version
2) BOINC version
3) personal firewall?
4) separate firewall?
5) networking setup: router? NAT?
6) ISP
7) are you using a proxy? What type (SOCK, HTTP)?
7a) What type of authentication does it use?

The BOINC developers are looking for info on the following, if you have problems with any BOINC 5.x.x:
1. You cannot connect to a project after attaching correctly. You cannot download/upload or report results without running into errors 400, 403 and 500. Exclusions to this are when the project is down, has a maintenance outage or you have problems with your network/internet. The only other exclusion is when you are using a corporate firewall which needs NTLM authentication (this is fixed in Boinc 5.6.x).

2. You run into the \"Unrecognized HTTP content - encoding\" error in BOINC Manager.

3. You are using BOINC 5.4.11 but still have problems with getting through the firewall.


To help out, please do the following:
Exit BOINC. (If service install, net stop boinc)
Navigate to your BOINC directory.
Make a file called cc_config.xml (with Notepad).
Add into it:

[b] 
<cc_config> 
    <log_flags> 
        <http_debug>1</http_debug> 
    </log_flags> 
</cc_config>[/b] 

Save the file, make sure it doesn\'t get the *.txt extension.
Restart BOINC. (If service install, net start boinc)

Now when you run into trouble, it will be written to stderrdae.txt and stdoutdae.txt in your BOINC directory. I am very interested in these files, so send them to me at elst93 at gmail dot com (if you want to compress them, use something different than ZIP, as gmail doesn\'t allow ZIPs to be sent/received. RARs are alright.)
I will send that what is needed through to the developers.

The original thread on the development forum is here:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=1104

That forum is well worth at least an occasional visit, though the topics discussed there are intended to be about boinc in general rather than climate models in particular.

The problems Ageless wants to know about can always be discussed here first if necessary before sending off a report.

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