The Puzzled gzuncompress Error

by drt on January 24, 2008

I was reading about catching the 404 Error in the blog the other day, so I went to check both of my blogs. Indeed I found some broken links that need to be fixed in my other blog. Most of them were easy to fix, however, there was this one page that puzzled me. These are the errors:

Warning: gzuncompress() [function.gzuncompress]: data error in /wp-content/plugins/easyswf.php on line 255

Warning: Division by zero in /wp-content/plugins/easyswf.php on line 125

I googled the word gzuncompress but could not find any solution.

I was using the Easy Inline Plugin to show a flash FLV video on that posting back in November, and it worked fine then. (It’s in Indonesian, but the video is in English though.)

Since I couldn’t find the answer on how to fix it, I was about to replace the plugin with another one when I noticed that the URL in the original code for displaying the video was still using the old URL with the prefix of www.

At first I was suspecting that maybe upgrading the site to WP 2.3.2 was the source. I even had left a comment at Easy Inline Plugin site, hoping that someone would find the answer for me. But after seeing that the URL was still using www, I then removed it from the codes and saved it. Voila, the FLV video showed up again.

I don’t really understand how the original plugin works, but I guess if you ever find the same type of errors, maybe it is easy to check the url for the location of your video file first. Hope it works. That’s my 2 cents.

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Last modified: January 24, 2008

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richard March 1, 2008 at 2:33 am

hi , i’m having the same problem as i’m setting up a new wordpress site..
i just wanted to clarify how you fixed the problem? what did you mean by “still using www, I then removed it from the codes and saved it.”

thanks

drt March 2, 2008 at 1:06 am

Have you checked my comment at macdiggs.com?

What happened was, in the beginning, my site’s URL was http://www.28oktober.net. The video file displayed on that posting was located at the video folder on that site. Later on I found out that having an URL with www was a disadvantage since if they sorted the blogger list, my site would be located in page 78 or higher page number of the list, while a URL without www particularly a site with URL starting with number like 28oktober would be listed in the front page. However, while making that change, I didn’t go to change the href file that is pointing to that video file. That was the source of that error. Once I corrected that error by removing the www from the href for video file location, it worked fine again.

Hope this help.

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