[arachne] Re: Arachne has problems with POSTing long messages

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Hi Udo,

Extracts from recent postings on Arachne Lists:

"smtp upload aborts when sending large attachments"

"No such problem here. In-fact, I recently sent an email containing
a 4meg attachment. (therefore the BASE64 encoded final file size
was 5.3megs)"

"Please try sending one of those large emails using a 'full install'
of v1.83;GPL,386+ and see if it works correctly for you."

Are you using 1.83? Might be worth a try. Alternatively
Beta version of 1.85 core.exe
http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ara-gpl/core-185.zip
which includes:
"X Ignore the "Refresh" tag.
Turning this option on means that Arachne will not use the
"Refresh"tag when it is encountered."
Although this may not be the final version of this change.

I'm sure Glennmcc would welcome results of any beta testing
you undertake!

Regards
John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Udo Kuhnt" <048321887-0001@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "John Sparks" <featus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 6:11 AM
Subject: Arachne has problems with POSTing long messages


> Hi John,
>
> this is a strange problem I have encountered while using Arachne,
and
> probably a difficult one both to describe and to fix:
>
> A couple of times, when posting a particularly long message in one
of
> the Senac.com forums, I noticed that Arachne will not be able to
> successfully send it. The message text is entered into a form text
> field, and when I click the submit button, I get something displayed
> like "xxxx bytes sent, waiting for reply", but nothing happens.
After a
> while, the "no connection" screen follows, indicating that Arachne
has
> been waiting for a response which apparently did not arrive.
>
> I wondered if this is some kind of limitation on Senac's side, so I
> tried to send the same text that Arachne failed to send with Mozilla
on
> a Linux box, which had no problems sending it.
>
> So it is something that Arachne does differently, and since the form
> text is probably sent via the POST method, I suspect a bug in one of
the
> related routines. If it is one, then it is probably an old one
because I
> already had encountered the same problem years ago. I would
therefore
> suggest to add a request to fix this problem to the Arachne2DoList.
>
> Testing this is probably easy, since it would only require to set up
a
> new forum at www.senac.com and post some messages of various length.
The
> messages I had problems with were always more than 1000 bytes long.
>
> Regards,
>
> Udo
>
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>
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