[darcs-devel] libwww bug

[Dmitry Kurochkin]

Hi David.

Here is a patch which adds basic error reporting in libwww. Now it
should fail on error and print error code at least.

Is the repo you get failure with public?

Regards,
  Dmitry

2008/1/10, David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:57:09PM -0500, David Roundy wrote:
> > I can confirm a speedup of better than a factor of four in download times
> > using the new libwww code by Dmitry that I'm right now pushing:
>
> Alas, it appears that there is a bug in the libwww code.  I am able to
> reproducibly trigger errors with my xmonad repository, in which a download
> fails without giving a failure message.  It exits with success, but the
> downloaded file has size zero.  :(  So I'm deprecating the libwww bindings
> for now (making them non-default, but leaving them there, so interested
> folks could compile with them using configure --with-libwww), and plan to
> remove them before the 2.0 release, unless they get fixed (and I don't have
> time to fix them).
> --
> David Roundy
> Department of Physics
> Oregon State University
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