[Fearts]

I just removed Pinion from one of my servers and I'm having issues with my MOTD. I have a link I use to display my MOTD but when I join the server it just shows a blank screen.

The weird thing is if I right click the blank screen and view the page source it all looks correct. If I click the blank screen and press F5 it shows the MOTD properly and if I rejoin the server it works fine.

I have cl_disablehtmlmotd 0

I have motdfile motd.txt

I have in my motd.txt and nothing else

I have asked multiple people if they also see a black screen on first join and they also say yes.

I don't believe I have any plugins on the server which might effect the MOTD but I will show you a print out of them.

 rcon sm plugins list
[SM] Listing 50 plugins:
  01 "Admin File Reader" (1.4.0-dev) by AlliedModders LLC
  02 "Admin Help" (1.4.0-dev) by AlliedModders LLC
  03 "Admin Menu" (1.4.0-dev) by AlliedModders LLC
  04 "Advanced admin commands" (0.16) by 3sigma
  05 "Advertisements" (0.5.5) by Tsunami
  06 "AFK" (1.0.4) by TnTSCS aka ClarkKent
  07 "AllChat" (1.1.1) by Frenzzy
  08 "Anti-Flood" (1.4.0-dev) by AlliedModders LLC
  09 "Any Menu" (1.0) by Zephyrus
  10 "Basic Chat" (1.4.0-dev) by AlliedModders LLC
  11 "Basic Comm Control" (1.4.1-dev) by AlliedModders LLC
  12 "Basic Commands" (1.4.0-dev) by AlliedModders LLC
  13 "Basic Info Triggers" (1.4.0-dev) by AlliedModders LLC
  14 "Basic Votes" (1.4.0-dev) by AlliedModders LLC
  15 "Bot Mimic" (1.0) by Jannik "Peace-Maker" Hartung
  16 "Connect Announce" (1.3) by Arg!
  17 "CSS Throwing Knives" (1.2.2b) by meng
  18 "ExtendedComm" (3.0.8b) by Twisted|Panda
  19 "Fake cvar" (1.1) by EHG
  20 "Bot Ping" (1.0.0) by Zephyrus
  21 "FireWaLL Radio" (1.01) by LightningZLaser
  22 "Fun Commands" (1.4.0-dev) by AlliedModders LLC
  23 "NoBlock" (1.4.2) by Otstrel.ru Team
  24 "Observe Client" (1.2.3) by WhiteWolf, puopjik, psychonic
  25 "Offline Ban list" (1.0.0 (GNU/GPLv3)) by 1Swat2KillThemAll
  26 "Player Commands" (1.4.0-dev) by AlliedModders LLC
  27 "Players Votes" (1.5.0) by The Resident, pZv!
  28 "RankMe" (2.7.0) by lok1
  29 "Redie 4 SourceMod" (1.3) by MeoW
  30 "[TF2] Resize Players" (1.1.2) by 11530
  31 "Restarter" (1.0) by Mitch
  32 "Roundend" (1.0) by Zephyrus, Dr. McKay
  33 "Server Hop" (0.8.2) by [GRAVE] rig0r
  34 "Show Damage" (1.0.7) by exvel
  35 "Simple Chat Processor" (1.0.1) by Simple Plugins
  36 "SourceMod Anti-Cheat" (0.8.0.9) by GoD-Tony, psychonic
  37 "SMAC Aimbot Detector" (0.8.0.9) by GoD-Tony
  38 "SMAC AutoTrigger Detector" (0.8.0.9) by GoD-Tony
  39 "SMAC Client Protection" (0.8.0.9) by GoD-Tony, psychonic, Kigen
  40 "SMAC Command Monitor" (0.8.0.9) by GoD-Tony, psychonic, Kigen
  41 "SMAC ConVar Checker" (0.8.0.9) by GoD-Tony, psychonic, Kigen
  42 "SMAC Eye Angle Test" (0.8.0.9) by GoD-Tony, psychonic
  43 "SMAC Rcon Locker" (0.8.0.9) by GoD-Tony, Kigen
  44 "SMAC Anti-Speedhack" (0.8.0.9) by GoD-Tony
  45 "SMAC Spinhack Detector" (0.8.0.9) by GoD-Tony
  46 "SourceBans" (1.4.10) by SourceBans Development Team
  47 "Tidy Chat" (0.4) by linux_lover
  48 "Updater" (1.1.5) by GoD-Tony
  49 "Very Basic High Ping Kicker" (1.4) by msleeper
  50 "Web Shortcuts" (1.0.1) by James "sslice" Gray

[SM] Displaying 20 extensions:
[01] Automatic Updater (1.4.7-dev): Updates SourceMod gamedata files
[02] Webternet (1.4.7-dev): Extension for interacting with URLs
[03] [CS:S]Name Change (0.0.1): Adds ability to CS:S for name changes from server
[04] BinTools (1.4.7-dev): Low-level C/C++ Calling API
[05] Server Secure - Files Only (1.0.0): The finest defence
[06] SMRCon (1.2.1): Tools for SM plugins to interact with rcon auth and requests
[07] CS:S Tools (1.4.7-dev): CS:S extended functionality
[08] SDK Tools (1.4.7-dev): Source SDK Tools
[09] Top Menus (1.4.7-dev): Creates sorted nested menus
[10] GeoIP (1.4.7-dev): Geographical IP information
[11] Client Preferences (1.4.7-dev): Saves client preference settings
[12] SQLite (1.4.7-dev): SQLite Driver
[13] Socket (3.0.1): Socket extension for SourceMod
[14] Steam Desync Patch (1.0.0): Patch that fix the desync between the game server and Steam servers.
[15] SDK Hooks (2.2.0): Source SDK Hooks
[16] Regex (1.4.7-dev): Provides regex natives for plugins
[17] Connect (1.0.0): 
[18] SteamTools (0.8.2): SteamWorks for SourceMod.
[19] cURL Extension (1.2.0.0): cURL Extension
[20] MySQL-DBI (1.4.7-dev): MySQL driver implementation for DBI

Please help.

[Sheepdude]

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

Maybe fix those isues for starters?

[Fearts]

Don't make fun of my shitty HTML code.

But my friend sent me a link to a thread about this issue:

http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=189158

<html>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=<YOUR URL HERE>">
<BODY SCROLL=YES bgcolor="#000000" link="#FFFFFF" vlink="#FFFFFF">
<font size="2" face="Verdana" color="#000000">.
</body>
</html>

^This will fix the problem.

[viksando]

Problem still persists in the latest version. Apparently - if you don't put any html tags in motd.txt it will render, like if you have set cl_disablehtmlmotd to 1 and use your text motd.

The problem seems to be related directly to the html renderer the game uses. Strip the <!DOCTYPE>, <meta>, <head> and <body> tags and you can read the motd, but add any html code and it renders a blank page.