Bug#307877: please don't cache bogus(?) errors

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Bastian Kleineidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-11 14:12]:
> With your permission (I don't want to generate a lot of traffic to
> your site without permission), I will make some more checks with
> your website to reproduce the bug.

Sure, go ahead.
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http://www.cyrius.com/


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Bug#307877: please don't cache bogus(?) errors

[Bastian Kleineidam]

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Hi,

I was not able to reproduce these bogus errors, neither with the 2.9
version (which had one or two thread race conditions anyway), nor with
the new 3.0 release.

With your permission (I don't want to generate a lot of traffic to your
site without permission), I will make some more checks with your website
to reproduce the bug.
Otherwise I suggest to close this bug as unreproducible.


Regards,
   Bastian
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Bug#307877: please don't cache bogus(?) errors and try them again later

[Martin Michlmayr]

Package: linkchecker
Version: 2.9-2
Severity: wishlist

I just looked through the linkcheck results of checking my homepage
and there are some error reports I cannot quite explain.  The URLs
which have apparently failed do exist and the error message doesn't
actually tell me much.

Two examples are:

URL'dscf0071_Sm.jpg.61.html' (cached)
Name   'Small (642x482)'
Parent URL http://www.cyrius.com/gallery/2003-09-001-sydney/thumb3.html, line 
345, col 24
Real URL   
http://www.cyrius.com/gallery/2003-09-001-sydney/dscf0071_Sm.jpg.61.html
Result Error

and

URL'0220-213632_Lg_Med.jpg.3.html'
Name   'Medium (962x722)'
Parent URL http://www.cyrius.com/gallery/2004-02-003-fosdem/index.html, line 
110, col 37
Real URL   
http://www.cyrius.com/gallery/2004-02-003-fosdem/0220-213632_Lg_Med.jpg.3.html
Check Time 0.442 seconds
Result Error: (9, 'Bad file descriptor')

Both of them look like a problem with linkcheck rather than anything
else.  There are a number of ways this could be improved:

 - First of all, the "Error" in the first example doesn't tell
   anything at all.

 - Secondly, please don't cache errors which are probably no real
   errors (such as this "Error" or a "Bad file descriptor").  Only
   cache errors which you know are real errors.

 - Keep a list of URLs which failed with 'strange' errors, and try
   them again right at the end of the run.


Or are these real errors and I'm missing something?  In this case, can
you improve the error message.  But as I said, I just ran linkcheck
over those URLs and they work fine.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages linkchecker depends on:
ii  python2.3.5-2An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python2.4 2.4.1-1An interactive high-level object-o

-- no debconf information

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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/


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