15 Dec
2003
15 Dec
'03
1:03 p.m.
Many of the pages on the Open Guide to London have acquired bizarre
characters in locales and categories. These characters are
concatenating the locales and categories into something bizarre. See
for example
http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Marylebone_Station
oglondontest=> select metadata_value from metadata where node='Marylebone
Station' and metadata_type='category' and version=8;
metadata_value
----------------
Rail
Tube
(1 row)
I suspect this might have something to do with the wiki hoover -
certainly the "last five nodes" edited by it all exhibit the problem.
http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?username=Wiki%20Hoover&action=us…
Ivor, can you investigate please?
Argh, I really don't have time to work up something to fix all the
mangled data right now. I'm going to have lunch and a think.
Kake
15 Dec
15 Dec
3:32 p.m.
On Mon 15 Dec 2003, Kate L Pugh <kake(a)earth.li> wrote:
Many of the pages on the Open Guide to London have
acquired bizarre
characters in locales and categories.
OK, I wrote a script to fix this by dint of taking a slightly extended
lunch hour, and I have now run it to fix the problems.
Please, please be careful when doing automated things to our data.
I am not very happy that I had to sort this out.
Kake
5:55 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:32:29PM +0000, Kate L Pugh wrote:
Please, please be careful when doing automated things
to our data.
I am not very happy that I had to sort this out.
Bummer. Unfortunately, our indices now seem to be screwed up again. What's
the procedure for deleting corrupt index files and then reindexing? I'd like
to be able to do it myself if it happens again.
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9:38 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kate L Pugh" <kake(a)earth.li>
To: <openguides-london(a)openguides.org>
Sent: 15 December 2003 13:03
Subject: [OpenGuides-London] Mangled metadata
Many of the pages on the Open Guide to London have
acquired bizarre
characters in locales and categories. These characters are
concatenating the locales and categories into something bizarre. See
for example
http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Marylebone_Station
oglondontest=> select metadata_value from metadata where node='Marylebone
Station' and metadata_type='category' and version=8;
metadata_value
----------------
Rail
Tube
(1 row)
Hummm... This is interesting, as the hoover script does not attempt to do
anything clever with the metadata - it just passes other form fields intact -
or so it appears to do. Perhaps there is something that a browser does
to a textarea field which my LWP::UserAgent code is not doing, or maybe
some escaping that is needed with POST :(.
We have a textbox containing Rail\nTube AFAIAA. This is passed intact
to POST, and to the CGI script, which should DWIM and turn 2 lines of
text into two rows. Why is the CGI script not seeing the text as separate lines?
I'm puzzled.
I suspect this might have something to do with the wiki hoover -
certainly the "last five nodes" edited by it all exhibit the problem.
http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?username=Wiki%20Hoover&action=us…
Ivor, can you investigate please?
Argh, I really don't have time to work up something to fix all the
mangled data right now. I'm going to have lunch and a think.
Are you responsible for Wiki Dyson? LOL :)
Before coming home and catching up on my emails, I did contemplate
repackaging and releasing the Wiki Hoover to CPAN as a module
(with a full set of tests of course ;).
I need to think about this error and do some client side debugging.
I'll probably use my existing test pages on collab.orative.org for this.
Ivor.
16 Dec
16 Dec
7:25 p.m.
New subject: [OpenGuides-London] Mangled indexes
On Mon 15 Dec 2003, Earle Martin <openguides(a)downlode.org> wrote:
Unfortunately, our indices now seem to be screwed up
again. What's
the procedure for deleting corrupt index files and then reindexing?
I'd like to be able to do it myself if it happens again.
What I've been doing is deleting the index files, running a script to
read and re-write all the nodes, then chowning the index files back
for the webserver. There's a script in openguides.org:~kake/local/bin/
*But* if you run that it *will* rewrite all the nodes. See previous
discussion.
Kake
7:28 p.m.
On Mon 15 Dec 2003, Ivor Williams <ivor.williams(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
Hummm... This is interesting, as the hoover script
does not attempt
to do anything clever with the metadata - it just passes other form
fields intact - or so it appears to do. Perhaps there is something
that a browser does to a textarea field which my LWP::UserAgent code
is not doing, or maybe some escaping that is needed with POST :(.
If it helps - something that not a lot of people seem to know is that
the CGI spec says newlines are \r\n regardless of OS.
Kake
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