[Grub-dev] I would like to help with the grub python client

[Giorgos Logiotatidis]

On Κυρ, 2009-01-11 at 16:09 +1300, chris hall wrote:
> Hey Giorgos,
> I hope you get this message, never replies to a mail list before >.<
yap mail received from the mailing list!

> One thing I have "noticed" is that if grub fails in uploading the
> arcfile, it still cleans it up and thus deletes it. Is this the
> intended behavior?
> 
> It seems like a waste to me, but I could be very wrong.
> In my opinion there should be a flag to disable this behavior or
> something to this extent.

> I also myself on one of my computers had trouble with uploading on
> grub, it gave back code 401 (authentication failure I think), later
> that night it worked fine on a different computer.

> Issue: http://grub.org/?q=en/node/237
> I am running grub now on the same computer to see if it was a "random"
> of permanent fault.
> 
> Hope to hear from you soon.
> Chris.

Yes and no. The client tries to upload the arc file. If a 500 error
(internal server problem) gets returned, tries again for a total of 3
times. 

If it get a 401 error just fails and deletes the arc file, as you point
out. The thing is that I don't really know why we get a 401 error in
first place. I think that the server returns a 401 if there something
wrong with the arc file -so we should better delete it-, but again I'm
not sure about that, maybe someone else can lighten up the server part. 

I 've noticed that almost 10% for the arc files get rejected with a 401
and yes it's a waste. Maybe we can try to implement a re-upload
functionality in case of a 401, but as far as I know the server part is
kind of obsolete and it's currently being recoded, so maybe it's just a
server error. 

I believe that also the c# client fails to upload some arcs, right?

When you say that you get 401s you get *only* 401s or *some* 401s?

-g