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Re: posting failure?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:59:36 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
> [...]
> But we appear to be OK now in the case of uploading large DAT files through
> the web interface and sending large bodies of content via the mail-to-news
> gateways.
Hold that thought!
> I have to do more stress-testing before I can say I'm fully confident with
> this fix, but I've got a good feeling about it so far. I was able to
> whittle the problem down to a very simple test case which I could make fail
> consistently (loss of data) from the web-upload & e-mail and succeed
> consistently (no loss of data) from a standard NNTP newsreader. This
> eliminated the NNTP server as part of the equation, as well as mail
> transport agents, user error, etc.
> [...]
Well, I feel pretty stoopit now for making the above post -before- doing
more stress testing. :-/
A 595KB file I just posted (to a faux group) dropped a few lines in the
middle.
This bug is out of my league. I'm not going to be able to fix it on my own
and have any hope of knowing whether the fix is correct. I'll have to
consult the Perl TCP socket I/O gurus.
--Todd
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