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has caused the Debian Bug report #400329,
regarding wwwoffle: lock-files in concurrent downloading broken either way
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Package: wwwoffle
Version: 2.9-2
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss
wwwoffle has the setting:
# lock-files = yes | no
# Enable the use of lock files to stop more than one WWWOFFLE process
# from downloading the same URL at the same time (default=no).
Either way this is set, it is broken.
If set to yes, it seems that a lockfile only manages to tell the
second process to give up loading the page at all, giving back a HTTP
500 WWWOFFLE Server Error:
> for i in `seq 1 10 ` ;do lynx -dump http://www.google.com.au & done
....
WWWOFFLE - World Wide Web Offline Explorer - v2.9
_________________________________________________________________
WWWOFFLE Server Error
The WWWOFFLE server encountered a fatal error:
Cannot open the spooled web page to read.
The program cannot continue to service this request.
Help
This is an internal WWWOFFLE server error that should not occur. There
is no other way of handling the error apart from providing this
warning page. If this error continues and WWWOFFLE is configured
correctly and there are no other computer problems then you should
report the error to the WWWOFFLE author.
_________________________________________________________________
WWWOFFLE - [[1]Welcome Page|[2]FAQ] - WWWOFFLE
References
1. http://scuzzie:8080/Welcome.html
2. http://scuzzie:8080/FAQ.html
...
By loading many pages at once as above, some of them end up succeeding
after the cache has been loaded, but prior to that, all but one of
them are going to fail -- above I'd see 5 or so error pages, then 5 or
so successful downloads -- YMW(ill)V as my computer is probably slow
enough for this test to come out this way.
If set to no, then the first process to hit the cache gets their
download, but the second process only retrieves as much as had reached
the first process at that time. So the second download ends up
incomplete. No error is returned, so it may not even be apparent
until a later date -- hence dataloss.
Marked as grave because of dataloss, since any webpage using crappy
session management, or submition of forms, etc, ends up being broken
whenever the page is being concurrently loaded in two seperate
pages/processes with either setting, and one copy will not be complete
or will fail altogether. Most of the rest of the time, a reload ought
to fix it, but this sometimes ends up loading from the browser's own
cache, which has only been half downloaded (I can't seem to convince
opera to drop its version of its cache, and reload from the proxy)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages wwwoffle depends on:
ii coreutils 5.97-5.2 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.9 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.17.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
wwwoffle recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* wwwoffle/string_port_number: 8080
wwwoffle/ageline_added:
wwwoffle/use-htdig: false
wwwoffle/ppp-fetch: true
* wwwoffle/use-ppp-interface: false
wwwoffle/ageline_lost:
wwwoffle/text_new_location:
wwwoffle/conf-perm:
* wwwoffle/string_parent_proxy: none
* wwwoffle/select_html_lang: en (English)
wwwoffle/ipv6defaultnone:
* wwwoffle/fetchfrequency: off
wwwoffle/note_upgrade_config_failed:
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--- Begin Message ---
Version:
wwwoffle was last released with Debian 6.0 (squeeze) in
February 2011 and removed from Debian sid/unstable later in 2011 (see
for details on the removal). Since
support for squeeze and squeeze-LTS has now ended, I'm closing all the
remaining bugs reported against this package.
Andreas
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