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What is the group on that server.
It looks like I need a usercode password.
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- Original Message -
From: "Eric Fortier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 9:00 AM
Subject: [twsocket] NNTP Post failing to download
> Hi all!
>
> It's been years since I posted on the list! Yep, I have come across a
> problem ;) This is a weird one; I hope some of the gurus here can help.
> And
> I do apologize for the length of this message!
>
> Over the years I received a few reports from users using my newsreader
> reporting that while downloading certain posts the download would suddenly
> stop. No crash, just nothing happening anymore.
>
> These reports have been rare but a couple date back to as early as 2000. I
> initially attributed them to a bad connection or to a glitch of some kind
> on
> the user machine, but a user wrote last week with this same problem again.
>
> After a bit of investigating (and arm twisting!), I was able to get the
> MessageID to one of the post that caused the newsreader to stop. To my
> surprise, my newsreader *does* stop on that post on my very own computer!
>
> I decided to try and find the cause of this and I downloaded the latest
> version of ICS from Francois' site to investigate. Guess what? The post
> also
> causes the demo Newsreader in the ICS distribution to stop! So the problem
> is not my app after all.
>
> I then tried the demo newsreader on three other computers on my network
> and
> none of them had any problems downloading the post to completion on
> numerous
> tries. Only my computer seems to be affected.
>
> Next, I tried to download that same post using Outlook Express on my
> computer. I'm pretty puzzled because it had no problem downloading it.
>
> Going on, I tried this: downloading the post using BodyByID instead of
> ArticleByID in the demo newsreader and it worked! I can repeat this
> behavior
> at will, using ArticleByID it doesn't complete, and using BodyByID the
> posts
> get completely downloaded.
>
> With ArticleByID the demo newsreader stops at exactly the same place each
> time, the last line received is #1975 or a message having 1985 lines. The
> last 10 lines never come in using ArticleByID.
>
> I'm pretty much stuck here at the moment, because I have no idea on how to
> proceed with my investigation. While I know the Nntp component very well
> (having rewritten several part of it), the inner workings of the WSocket
> component are a mystery to me. I have no idea what FD_READ and all the
> other
> stuff stand for :(
>
> Still, it does sound as if the last packet (in case of network problem) or
> buffer (in case of WSocket/NntpCli problem) never come in and the nntp
> component keep waiting. In fact, if I try to send the Quit command an
> exception is raised because the state is not nntpReady.
>
> Can anyone offer any help or suggestion? I've been at this non-stop since
> last week and I can't think of anything else to do...
>
> Many thanks...
>
> Eric Fortier
>
> PS: If anyone wants to check out the message, the MessageID is:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I apologize for the content (warez
> newsgroup) but I have nothing else to work with.
>
> PPS: I have no antivirus, firewall or antispyware installed on my machine
> and I also tried to connect on many different ports to my news server
> (Giganews).
>
>
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