https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16732
--- Comment #3 from Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@home.nl> 2008-12-21 12:27:09 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > If your program somehow messes up aicontinue values, such things could > > happen. > > It's called gaifrom ;) > I'm reading it from gaifrom attribute of <allimages> > Indeed, if the API somehow returned the namespace on the query-continue, that > could explain the first jumping, but not the jump back. > It doesn't return the namespace, because all images are in the same namespace (File:). > Maybe unrelated, I suspect that some results are skipped due to the API > providing malformed XML (bug 16106). > If you're using XML, I guess that could be the problem. Have you tried using other formats? Instinctively, I'd say PHP serialized is best shielded from this kind of malformedness. > > The Auto-Image-Auto bug looks like some weird race condition or improper > > handling of parallel requests. > > There're no parallel requests. > > > > Closing as WORKSFORME (because, well, it does). > > Race conditions, small memory corruptions or load-balancing slaves crazyness > are not too reproductible. > I'd also like having a failing URL and I am aware it is insufficient for > fixing but hopefully someone would have an idea or will find this when facing > the same problem. > While having a failing URL would be very nice, even a log excerpt showing that the API is doing *something* wrong (like sorting stuff wrongly, setting the wrong query-continue values or malformed XML messing stuff up) would be good enough for me. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
