On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > Magnus Manske wrote: >> [wikitech rather than mediawiki as it concerns a wikimedia >> installation; also, not sure if this is really a bug, thus no >> bugzilla] >> >> One of my tools on the toolserver has been happily transferring images >> from http://www.geograph.org.uk/ for many month. It does so by copying >> the file to /tmp on toolserver, then upload it. >> >> Now, a problem has come up: Most of the time (but apparently, not >> always), the upload is rejected because of some mime type issue. The >> problem occurs for both fake-upload-page POST via Perl, as well as the >> API-based PHP Peachy extension. This happens for many different >> images, so probably not a bad toolserver cache. >> >> Now the killer: When I download the image to my desktop and manually >> upload it, it works fine. >> >> Test image : http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/49/27/492794_cc629fb2.jpg >> >> Any ideas? >> >> >> Magnus > > Is the file downloaded right at the toolserver? > It may be that it downloads a 0-byte file, then upload fails, whereas > when you download it manually you get the right file. (Similarly, it may > be the upload what gets truncated, although that probably wouldn't give > a mime error as it would fail earlier)
I checked, the file on the toolserver has exactly the same size as the one I downloaded manually. Also, the file is downloaded anew on each attempt, and several files are affected. The original reporter of the bug told me that for one image, it actually succeeded on his ninth attempt. Talk about persistence :-) Addendum: API error message is: "Code: verification-error Text: This file did not pass file verification" Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
