On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > According to Fred Stutzman: > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > ... > > > But you've still got the problem with page truncation! You haven't > > > fixed the root cause of the problem, just found a way to avoid the > > > most drastic truncation (to 0 bytes, causing the 500 error). Try the > > > URL: > > > > > > http://iupac.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdig&restrict=www.iupac.org%2Fpublications%2F&exclude=www.iupac.org%2Fgoldbook%2F&method=and&format=builtin-long&sort=score&words=75857xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > and then do a View->Page Source, and look at the bottom of the page. > > > You'll see the HTML ends abruptly, without completing the footer section > > > of your nomatch.html page. > > > > Thanks for pointing this out. I'll see if I can fix it. Is this also a > > known issue? > > No, I haven't seen it before. I can't pin it down to anything right in > the htsearch code, so it would seem to be out of our control. Something > is causing the last part of the output to the "cout" ostream object to > get lost before reaching it's final destination (the web browser). I > suspect a bug in your C++ library, or maybe in Apache's CGI program > handling. This is why it's important to make sure you've installed any > relevant Red Hat bug fixes. >
On this note, more behavior oddities; if I change the search format to long, the page truncates. If I change the search format to short, the page doesnt truncate. I'm getting to the point where I'm just going to have to completely reinstall the software for this group. I was brought in to troubleshoot, but this is getting extreme. ;) > > > Have you even tried installing all the Red Hat errata update RPMs? > > > > > > > Right now, I'm less likely to roll out new software to the production > > machines - this is not out of the question, though. > > I'm not talking installing major new revisions of any packages here. > I'm talking security and bug fix releases right from Red Hat. If you're > not installing these on a production web server, you're really asking for > grief. Red Hat does a pretty good job of issuing solid bug fix patches > for its free distributions (Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 1) without breaking > anything or forcing a jump to a new major release. I'd imagine they'd > be even more careful about Enterprise Linux. To that extent, the answer is yes. We're up to date on the software. Thanks, Fred > > -- Fred Stutzman Desk: 962-5646 Cell: 260-8508 www.ibiblio.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ ht://Dig general mailing list: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general
