Show error page if etherpad dies

opengovfoundation / madison-editor

Node-based editor for Madison

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Open cmbirk opened 8 years ago

cmbirk commented 8 years ago

right now we're just iframing the default chrome error page. We need an explainer to the user if etherpad is down there.

krusynth commented 8 years ago

I'm not sure how we would do this; I'm not sure there's a way to know that the iframe didn't load?

cmbirk commented 8 years ago

Per our conversation this morning, it seems like a ping request would be the simplest solution, but standing up Varnish would be the optimal one