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

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On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:31:11 +0100, John Sparks wrote:

Hi John,

sorry for the late reply. More on that below.

> 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."

This sounds like a different problem to me. Mine is with form messages,
not with email, though they might be related, who knows?

> Are you using 1.83? Might be worth a try. Alternatively

Yes. Never missed an Arachne version, except for 1.81 which somehow
eluded me, probably because of the insane amount of updates chasing
each other in that time. ;-)

> 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!

Thanks for the tip! I will try to install it on my test machine.

BTW, actually I *did* have an email problem yesterday, which is why I
had been unable to reply.

In any and all of my mail folders, Arachne just briefly displayed
"Invalid directory" when I either tried to read a mail or reply to it;
I also could not move the mails, either. I do not know what was causing
this, but deleting the cache fixed the problem. I suspect either a
corrupted cache index file, or running out of free entries in it, or
something like that. Perhaps the cache handling should be changed to
delete entries if accessing them resulted in an error, and to
automatically retry the operation afterwards.

Regards,

Udo

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