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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+
+<head>
+ <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
+ <title>This application is currently under maintenance</title>
+ <style type="text/css">
+ body { background-color: #fff; color: #666; text-align: center; font-family: arial, sans-serif; }
+ div.dialog {
+ width: 25em;
+ padding: 0 4em;
+ margin: 4em auto 0 auto;
+ border: 1px solid #ccc;
+ border-right-color: #999;
+ border-bottom-color: #999;
+ }
+ h1 { font-size: 100%; color: #00F; line-height: 1.5em; }
+ </style>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+ <!-- This file lives in public/maintenance.html -->
+
+ <div class="dialog">
+ <h1>This application is currently under maintenance.</h1>
+ <p>We're updating the application software and we should be back shortly. Thank you for your patience.</p>
+ </div>
+</body>
+</html>
+