On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:24:25PM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 03:31, Toad wrote:
> > > It is a critical node bug - a complete showstopper for anyone using
> > > splitfiles over FCP.
> > 
> > No it isn't. It works perfectly well locally
> 
> Wrong - two other people are reporting the bug in localhost connections.

Well, is it fixed in current unstable?
> 
> > and anyone advanced enough
> > to be using FCP from another machine is probably capable of setting up
> > an SSL tunnel.
> 
> I'd use the Python remote object broker software I've hacked up.
> Or other solutions.
> 
> But, stepping back a little, why have I and others run into SEP-shields,
> or received HTFS responses?
> 
> <rant>
> Freenet is a phenomenal, revolutionary concept. The project is now in
> its 4th or 5th year. Yet it still seems to be sidelined and regarded as
> a 'technical plaything'. Little by little, reactions of denial, 'HTFS',
> 'NMP' etc tend to reinforce this reputation.
> </rant>
> 
> When people confront me with bugs in my code that I can't reproduce on
> my gear, I litter my code with all kinds of diagnostic logging and send
> them a custom cut. They send me the logs. Repeat cycle till I know
> what's going on, fix, get them to send patch, until bugs go away.
> 
> Why I feel all this to be an issue is that with (reportedly) build 5020,
> all was fine, and with (reportedly) 5021, things broke. So someone broke
> something, albeit in a way which doesn't manifest for all users.
> 
> > > In the meantime, I might recommend that the 'official release' be
> > > temporarily reverted to build 5020.
> > 
> > That is completely overreacting.
> 
> I'm not sure you'd feel that way if the bug was happening to you.
> I still believe that FCP client programmers deserve at least to see a
> link on the website mentioning the problem, and making available a
> freenet.jar build which doesn't have that problem. Even if not that,
> they deserve some kind of warning that 'some of the FCP FEC commands may
> result in blocked sockets and send/receive failures'.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> David
> 
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