gmane.comp.web.aolserver

ns_adp_parse ignore safe option

Alexey Pechnikov — 2008-09-05T11:19:06

Hello! In page http://dev.aolserver.com/wiki/Ns_adp_parse is writed "If you specify the -safe flag, then only registered tags are executed; inline scripts using "<% ... %>" or "<%= ... %>" are ignored." I'm try to using ns_adp_parse -file -safe $fname and <% ... %> sections are executed! It's very unsecure for me. What can I do? I'm using AOLServer 4.0.10-7 from debian etch. Best regards, Alexey.

Problem running Aolserver with Valgrind

Sep Ng — 2008-09-02T01:14:37

Hi, I've been trying to get aolserver to run on Valgrind for a week now and it does work to a certain extent. My Aolserver interfaces with Oracle databases and my problem is that when I do run aolserver on valgrind and nsoracle driver attempts to connect to Oracle, I get a OCIServerAttach ()': ORA-12546: TNS: Permission Denied error. I'm not sure why it's doing this. It works fine without valgrind. I've even set my permissions bits on oracle binary as rwsrwsrwx. It's still not working. I need help, please. :( I don't know where to look. Thanks. Sep

problem getting binary data from C to a tcl object to an aolserver connection

Mark Aufflick — 2008-08-28T08:50:09

Hi all, If I Ns_Log() the data in a (char *) I can clearly see that it contains newlines, and I can also verify that it contains nulls with memchr. I have tried any number of ways to turn it into a tcl object, eg: objPtr = Tcl_NewByteArrayObj(str, length); or objPtr = Tcl_NewObj(); Tcl_AppendToObj(objPtr, str, length); or objPtr = Tcl_NewStringObj(str, length); etc. this is then set as the result object, and control returns to the tcl code. Whether the tcl code then does an ns_log, ns_return (which I know isn't supposed to be binary safe) or ns_write, i get all the newlines converted into \n (ie. two characters \ then n) and chunks of binary get converted to unicode characters. I can see from Tcl_AppendToObj that that is supposed to happen there, but how can I output a byte array object without it being converted to utf8? Any help appreciated - this is driving me nuts :)

ns_ldap and ldap bind command

Mark Aufflick — 2008-08-24T10:53:50

Hi all, Researching the use of ns_ldap in OpenACS it seems that the version of ns_ldap in wide use is http://www.sussdorff.de/resources/nsldap.tgz which seems to have additional support for ldap bind (note I am not an LDAP expert so forgive me if I'm using the wrong lingo). The diff is pasted below. Should this be committed to the tree? diff -r nsldap/nsldap.c nsldap-sussdorf/nsldap.c 1373a1374 1796a1798,1820 diff -r nsldap/README nsldap-sussdorf/README 186a187,191

PATCH: Support ipv6

Daniël Mantione — 2008-08-23T15:18:50

Hi, Ipv6 is becoming more important, with only only a few years of ipv4 address space left and governments starting to require it when doing business with them. I'm running ipv6 myself for a while now, but my webservers are still ipv4 only, because they run ipv4. So, I wrote a patch, downloadable here: http://www.freepascal.org/~daniel/aolserver-ipv6support.diff ... it applies against AOLserver-cvs. After applying the patch, AOLserver uses AF_INET6 rather than AF_INET. While of course, experimental, AOLserver seems to serve pages perfectly fine on both ipv4 and ipv6, with no impact on configuration files, or TCL code. Everywhere you could use an ipv4 address before, it now simply accepts both. Daniël

Data "corruption" with fastpath caching

John Caruso — 2008-08-18T19:33:56

Consider the following pseudocode snippet: <<...generate file $myfile in some way...>> ns_returnfile 200 text/plain $myfile ns_unlink $myfile If this snippet is executed in a tight loop on a Linux system, the chances of returning the wrong results are very high due to AOLserver's fastpath caching, which requires the following four attributes to be identical to consider a new file to be a cache hit (as per the FastReturn function in fastpath.c): 1) Same device number 2) Same inode number 3) Same modification time (within one second) 4) Same size Assuming $myfile is always on the same filesystem, number 1 is taken care of, and Linux reuses inode numbers, so the creation and deletion of $myfile will typically result in a file with the same inode. So in this example, files created within a given second that contains the same amount of data as a preceding file created within that same second will be considered identical, and will be erroneously served from cache. This isn't just a hypothetical, BTW; a client of mine ran into this issue and spent many weeks trying to figure out what was happening before tracing it back to AOLserver's fastpath caching. And the issue had existed for many years without being detected. I'm mainly bringing this up to shine a light on the issue and see what other people's views are. It's potentially a very serious issue given that it may silently "corrupt" data, and the fact that fastpath caching is enabled by default means that people may run into it without even knowing they're exposed to the danger. The best workaround I can think of (short of a checksum, which would defeat the purpose of caching in the first place) would be to check that the mtime or ctime of the file is some threshold number of seconds (e.g. 1 or 2) less than the current time, and not serve the file from cache if it's not. In other words, a file would have to be at least X seconds old (which could be a configurable value) before it could be served from the cache rather than from disk. Thoughts? - John

bookmooch on reddit

Jeff Rogers — 2008-08-01T01:55:13

Just noticed that bookmooch is #6 on the reddit homepage. I seem to recall that bookmooch was running aolserver backed by bdb on just one or two servers - is that still the case? What I was wondering more of course is if there was any notable traffic spike from the reddit mention and if aolserver handled any spike without problems. -J

AOLServer and Tcl classes available in Virginia in Oct

Jeff Hobbs — 2008-07-23T17:00:52

Hi all, Just a short FYI that the upcoming Tcl conference will have tutorial sessions that include AOLServer and OpenACS tutorials. I'm forwarding along this short note from the conference chair: AOLServer and Tcl classes available in Virginia Training sessions for AOLServer and Tcl will be offered at the annual Tcl/Tk Conference being held in Manassas, Virginia, October 20-24. The classes are taught by industry experts and professional educators. Conference membership is not required to attend a tutorial. Details at: http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2008 I hope to see some of you there. Regards, Jeff

Custom server error page crash

William Scott Jordan — 2008-07-10T02:15:25

Hey all! I've recently added a custom server error message using a redirect in AOLserver's config file. Since then, I've been occasionally seeing the following error in the logs: [09/Jul/2008:18:04:08][30505.1690512][-conn:1-] Error: return: failed to redirect 'PROPFIND /500.html': exceeded recursion limit of 3 There will be several thousand of those entries in a row, followed by a server crash. I don't see anything in the logs to indicate what may have initiated the error in the first place. And the entries continue even after the server reboots. At first, I thought there might be an error in the server error page itself, so I switched it from being a dynamically generated page to being a static HTML file, which goes through no filtering, but that didn't solve the problem. Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be going on? Thanks! -Scott

Upload size limits

Jay Rohr — 2008-07-10T01:10:42

Did the method of specify the max upload size change in 4.5? 4.0.x was "ns_param maxinput [expr 1024 * 1024 * 1024]" Jay

Troubleshooting PHP support

Michael Steigman — 2008-07-01T20:53:07

Hi all, I'm attempting to get PHP working with Aolserver 4.5 as a workaround in a time crunch here. OS is RHEL 4. I compiled PHP5 in a VM that is basically identical to my production server and it worked like a charm. On the production box, however, the script produces no output and the response headers say "500 internal server error". There is nothing in the error log (debugging turned on). For the sake of it, I tried PHP4; again, it compiled just fine and loads OK at server startup but no output. This time I got a "200 OK" message in the response headers, though. Nothing in the logs again. Can anyone give me some pointers on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks in advance. Michael

Trouble with NSGD Installation

Matthew Gagen — 2008-06-20T18:33:51

I'm having trouble getting NSGD to compile correctly in Ubuntu. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience getting it to compile successfully on a linux OS. There were a few warning messages during the compile process, and the module would not load when aolserver was started up. Also there's an issue that make was creating two .so files (these are shared libraries on Linux), nsgd and libnsgd. I have Ubuntu 8.04 and AOLServer 4.5 in case that information is needed. Thanks, Matthew Gagen

Control Port on AOLserver 4.5

Bernhard van Woerden — 2008-06-10T15:37:40

I'm trying out AOLserver4.5 on FreeBSD7 and can't get the control port to echo back the results of a command e.g. Welcome to nsd running at /usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd (pid 1522) AOLserver/4.5.0 (aolserver4_5) for freebsd built on May 23 2008 at 17:06:51 CVS Tag: $Name: aolserver_v45_r0 $ tlc:nscp 1> expr 2+2 tlc:nscp 2> Has anyone else seen this or know how to fix it ? I'm not sure of this is FreeBSD specific but AOLserver 4.10 worked fine. Many thanks Bernhard -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to listserv.aol.com> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.

FW: Nspostgres Segmentation fault problem

Agnieszka Kukałowicz — 2008-05-21T07:00:44

Hi, I have problem With AOLserver 4.0.10 and nspostgres version 4. When Postgresql database is unaccessible for a while AOLserver is dying with the error: 19/May/2008:09:55:51][14192.3068214160][-conn:server1::29] Error: dbinit: error(10.0.200.200::server1,server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. ): 'select sec_id_seq.nextval' Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. In GDB, backtrace shows: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1226753136 (LWP 14239)] 0x00a708ef in DbFail (interp=0x139ac2c0, handle=0x8dbf3b8, cmd=0x18b436f0 "0or1row", sql=0x18b4c8f0 "select sec_id_seq.nextval") at nspostgres.c:1131 1131 if (pqerror[0] != '\0') { (gdb) bt #0 0x00a708ef in DbFail (interp=0x139ac2c0, handle=0x8dbf3b8, cmd=0x18b436f0 "0or1row", sql=0x18b4c8f0 "select sec_id_seq.nextval") at nspostgres.c:1131 #1 0x00a71565 in PgBindCmd (dummy=0x0, interp=0x139ac2c0, argc=4, argv=0xb6e0dc38) at nspostgres.c:1477 #2 0x006e0145 in TclInvokeStringCommand (clientData=0x13989bb8, interp=0x139ac2c0, objc=4, objv=0xb6e0de5c) at ./../generic/tclBasic.c:1778 #3 0x006e17c5 in TclEvalObjvInternal (interp=0x139ac2c0, objc=4, objv=0xb6e0de5c, command=0x774072 "", length=0, flags=262144) at ./../generic/tclBasic.c:3088 I've tried to change nspostgres.so to newer version (4r1) from CVS but the problem still exists: [19/May/2008:10:37:55][15960.3068312464][-conn:server1::23] Notice: Ns_PgExec: Trying to reopen database connection [19/May/2008:10:37:55][15960.3068312464][-conn:server1::23] Fatal: received fatal signal 11 And backtrace is: gdb) bt #0 0x004f1402 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x009eada0 in *__GI_raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 #2 0x009ec781 in *__GI_abort () at abort.c:88 #3 0x00a2196b in __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0xae8564 "*** glibc detected *** %s: %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:170 #4 0x00a296a6 in _int_free (av=0xb02120, mem=0x9d6aa88) at malloc.c:5758 #5 0x00a2cc10 in *__GI___libc_free (mem=0x9d6aa88) at malloc.c:3541 #6 0x005b14b0 in DLFreeList (list=0x9ccb688) at dllist.c:69 #7 0x005a29ae in closePGconn (conn=0xb587d70) at fe-connect.c:2119 #8 0x005a2c05 in PQfinish (conn=0xb587d70) at fe-connect.c:2148 #9 0x0013f004 in Ns_PgExec (handle=0x97b35b8, sql=0xefca8a8 "select sec_id_seq.nextval") at nspostgres.c:368 #10 0x001337af in Ns_DbExec (handle=0x97b35b8, sql=0xefca8a8 "select sec_id_seq.nextval") at dbdrv.c:415 #11 0x001336d0 in Ns_DbSelect (handle=0x97b35b8, sql=0xefca8a8 "select sec_id_seq.nextval") at dbdrv.c:372 #12 0x00137381 in Ns_Db0or1Row (handle=0x97b35b8, sql=0xefca8a8 "select sec_id_seq.nextval", nrows=0xb6d11af4) at dbutil.c:103 #13 0x00141b13 in PgBindCmd (dummy=0x0, interp=0xeb49d58, argc=4, argv=0xb6d11c38) at nspostgres.c:1628 #14 0x00209145 in TclInvokeStringCommand (clientData=0xeb64818, interp=0xeb49d58, objc=4, objv=0xb6d11e5c) at ./../generic/tclBasic.c:1778 #15 0x0020a7c5 in TclEvalObjvInternal (interp=0xeb49d58, objc=4, objv=0xb6d11e5c, command=0x29d072 "", length=0, flags=262144) at ./../generic/tclBasic.c:3088 Best regards Agnieszka Kukalowicz

ns_sock_select issues again

Titi Alailima — 2008-05-07T18:54:45

I’m having problems with ns_httpget on my Win32, 4.5.0, Tcl 8.5. Again I’ve narrowed it down to the ns_sock_select in _ns_http_puts (defined in modules/tcl/http.tcl). It’s not crashing now like it did with 4.0.10, Tcl 8.4.17 (you may recall a month ago I was getting an “UpdateStringProc should not be invoked for type bytecode” error then). Now it just errors out like so: invalid command name "ƒÄ,¶——" while executing "Ä,¶——" (procedure "_ns_http_puts" line 1) invoked from within "_ns_http_puts $timeout $wfd "$method $uri HTTP/1.0\r"" invoked from within "ns_httpopen GET $url $rqset $timeout" (procedure "ns_httpget" line 10) invoked from within "ns_httpget http://www.google.com/" I’m guessing the gobbledygook is some sort of representation of ns_sockselect. Is this at all related to the UpdateStringProc error from before? Is it bytecode pretending to be a string? Must be, because if I put together the series of commands leading up to it, like so: set fds [ns_sockopen -nonblock www.google.com 80] set rfd [lindex $fds 0] set wfd [lindex $fds 1] if {[lindex [ns_sockselect -timeout 30 {} $wfd {}] 1] == ""} { error "Foo" } puts $wfd "GET / HTTP/1.0\r" it works but if I use _ns_http_puts like this: set fds [ns_sockopen -nonblock www.google.com 80] set rfd [lindex $fds 0] set wfd [lindex $fds 1] _ns_http_puts 30 $wfd "GET / HTTP/1.0\r" It throws the error again. I’m beyond my depth figuring out why this would be the case. I guess it could be something about the system I’m on, since it seems like the same problem has manifested itself twice with two different versions of both AOLserver and Tcl codebases, and two different compilers even. The only common denominator is this Win2k3 Server box I’m on, which isn’t all that special as far as I can tell. I’ll try to find another machine to try it out on. In the meantime, any ideas on what is causing this? Titi Ala'ilima Lead Architect MedTouch LLC 1100 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 617.621.8670 x309 -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to listserv.aol.com> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.

Rolling logs in Windows

Titi Alailima — 2008-05-06T19:12:58

Anyone know how to signal nsd in Windows to roll the logs? Any equivalent of "kill -HUP"? Titi Ala'ilima Lead Architect MedTouch LLC 1100 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 617.621.8670 x309 -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to listserv.aol.com> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.

oci_error_p - nsoracle.c - talking about memory allocation...

Maurizio Martignano — 2008-05-04T08:26:23

Dear all, Id like to report a memory allocation problem in the function oci_error_p, belonging to the module nsoracle.c. When the system is used on Windows and Oracle (via plsql) execute a raise_application_error, Aolserver (nsd) stops working. Leta analyse the code static int oci_error_p(const char *file, int line, const char *fn, Ns_DbHandle * dbh, char *ocifn, char *query, oci_status_t oci_status) { ora_connection_t *connection = 0; ub2 offset = 0; sb4 errorcode = 0; char *msgbuf; ß dynamic memory allocation char *buf; ß dynamic memory allocation char exceptbuf[EXCEPTION_CODE_SIZE + 1]; ß allocation on the stack if (dbh) { connection = dbh->connection; } if (oci_status == OCI_SUCCESS) return 0; /* Until we get the logging situation worked out, return * OCI_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO as a pure success. */ if (oci_status == OCI_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO) return 0; /* If the query is long, nilp will return "[too long]"; * if null (we're not doing a query yet, e.g., could * be opening db), then "[nil]" */ query = nilp(query); msgbuf = (char *) Ns_Malloc(STACK_BUFFER_SIZE * sizeof(char)); ß dynamic creation of msgbuf buf = (char *) Ns_Malloc(STACK_BUFFER_SIZE * sizeof(char)); ß dynamic creation of buf *msgbuf = 0; switch (oci_status) { case OCI_NEED_DATA: snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "Error - OCI_NEED_DATA"); break; case OCI_NO_DATA: snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "Error - OCI_NO_DATA"); break; case OCI_ERROR: if (connection == 0) snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "NULL connection"); else { oci_status_t oci_status1; char errorbuf[1024]; oci_status1 = OCIErrorGet(connection->err, 1, NULL, &errorcode, errorbuf, sizeof errorbuf, OCI_HTYPE_ERROR); if (oci_status1) { snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "`OCIErrorGet ()' error"); } else { snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "%s", errorbuf); } oci_status1 = OCIAttrGet(connection->stmt, OCI_HTYPE_STMT, &offset, NULL, OCI_ATTR_PARSE_ERROR_OFFSET, connection->err); if (errorcode == 1041 || errorcode == 3113 || errorcode == 12571 || errorcode == 28 || errorcode == 1012 || errorcode == 24324) { /* 3113 is 'end-of-file on communications channel', which * happens if the oracle process dies * 12571 is TNS:packet writer failure, which also happens if * the oracle process dies * 1041 is the dreaded "hostdef extension doesn't exist error, * which means the db handle is screwed and can't be used * for anything else. * * In either case, close and re-open the handle to clear the * error condition */ Ns_OracleFlush(dbh); Ns_OracleCloseDb(dbh); } if (errorcode == 20 || errorcode == 1034) { /* ora-00020 means 'maximum number of processes exceeded. * ora-01034 means 'oracle not available'. * we want to make sure the oracleSID process * goes away so we don't make the problem worse */ Ns_OracleCloseDb(dbh); } } break; case OCI_INVALID_HANDLE: snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "Error - OCI_INVALID_HANDLE"); break; case OCI_STILL_EXECUTING: snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "Error - OCI_STILL_EXECUTING"); break; case OCI_CONTINUE: snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "Error - OCI_CONTINUE"); break; } if (((errorcode == 900) || (offset > 0)) && (strlen(query) >= offset)) { /* ora-00900 is invalid sql statment * it seems to be the msg most likely to be a parse * error that sets offset to 0 */ int len; len = snprintf(buf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "%s:%d:%s: error in `%s ()': %s\nSQL: ", file, line, fn, ocifn, msgbuf); if (offset > 0) len += snprintf(buf + len, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE - len, "%.*s", offset - 1, query); snprintf(buf + len, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE - len, " !>>>!%s", query + offset); } else { snprintf(buf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "%s:%d:%s: error in `%s ()': %s\nSQL: %s", file, line, fn, ocifn, msgbuf, query); } Ns_Log(Error, "%s", buf); /* We need to call this so that AOLserver will print out the relevant * error on pages served to browsers where ClientDebug is set. */ snprintf(exceptbuf, EXCEPTION_CODE_SIZE, "%d", (int) errorcode); Ns_DbSetException(dbh, exceptbuf, buf); ß here exceptbuf (allocated on the stack) and buf (dimanically allocated) are passed to Ns_DbSetException Ns_Free(msgbuf); ß destruction of msgbuf Ns_Free(buf); ß destruction of buf return 1; ß after this return neither msgbuf and buf (already destroyed) nor exceptbuf (on the stack) do formally exists } This code DOES work on Linux. In Windows, when raise_application_error is called the code BREAKS the server. To make it work I had to change the code as follows: static int oci_error_p(const char *file, int line, const char *fn, Ns_DbHandle * dbh, char *ocifn, char *query, oci_status_t oci_status) { ora_connection_t *connection = 0; ub2 offset = 0; sb4 errorcode = 0; static char msgbuf[STACK_BUFFER_SIZE +1]; ß static memory allocation of msgbuf static buf[STACK_BUFFER_SIZE +1]; ß static memory allocation of buf static char exceptbuf[EXCEPTION_CODE_SIZE + 1]; ß static memory allocatin of exceptbuf if (dbh) { connection = dbh->connection; } if (oci_status == OCI_SUCCESS) return 0; /* Until we get the logging situation worked out, return * OCI_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO as a pure success. */ if (oci_status == OCI_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO) return 0; /* If the query is long, nilp will return "[too long]"; * if null (we're not doing a query yet, e.g., could * be opening db), then "[nil]" */ query = nilp(query); // msgbuf = (char *) Ns_Malloc(STACK_BUFFER_SIZE * sizeof(char)); // buf = (char *) Ns_Malloc(STACK_BUFFER_SIZE * sizeof(char)); *msgbuf = 0; switch (oci_status) { case OCI_NEED_DATA: snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "Error - OCI_NEED_DATA"); break; case OCI_NO_DATA: snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "Error - OCI_NO_DATA"); break; case OCI_ERROR: if (connection == 0) snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "NULL connection"); else { oci_status_t oci_status1; char errorbuf[1024]; oci_status1 = OCIErrorGet(connection->err, 1, NULL, &errorcode, errorbuf, sizeof errorbuf, OCI_HTYPE_ERROR); if (oci_status1) { snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "`OCIErrorGet ()' error"); } else { snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "%s", errorbuf); } oci_status1 = OCIAttrGet(connection->stmt, OCI_HTYPE_STMT, &offset, NULL, OCI_ATTR_PARSE_ERROR_OFFSET, connection->err); if (errorcode == 1041 || errorcode == 3113 || errorcode == 12571 || errorcode == 28 || errorcode == 1012 || errorcode == 24324) { /* 3113 is 'end-of-file on communications channel', which * happens if the oracle process dies * 12571 is TNS:packet writer failure, which also happens if * the oracle process dies * 1041 is the dreaded "hostdef extension doesn't exist error, * which means the db handle is screwed and can't be used * for anything else. * * In either case, close and re-open the handle to clear the * error condition */ Ns_OracleFlush(dbh); Ns_OracleCloseDb(dbh); } if (errorcode == 20 || errorcode == 1034) { /* ora-00020 means 'maximum number of processes exceeded. * ora-01034 means 'oracle not available'. * we want to make sure the oracleSID process * goes away so we don't make the problem worse */ Ns_OracleCloseDb(dbh); } } break; case OCI_INVALID_HANDLE: snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "Error - OCI_INVALID_HANDLE"); break; case OCI_STILL_EXECUTING: snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "Error - OCI_STILL_EXECUTING"); break; case OCI_CONTINUE: snprintf(msgbuf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "Error - OCI_CONTINUE"); break; } if (((errorcode == 900) || (offset > 0)) && (strlen(query) >= offset)) { /* ora-00900 is invalid sql statment * it seems to be the msg most likely to be a parse * error that sets offset to 0 */ int len; len = snprintf(buf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "%s:%d:%s: error in `%s ()': %s\nSQL: ", file, line, fn, ocifn, msgbuf); if (offset > 0) len += snprintf(buf + len, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE - len, "%.*s", offset - 1, query); snprintf(buf + len, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE - len, " !>>>!%s", query + offset); } else { snprintf(buf, STACK_BUFFER_SIZE, "%s:%d:%s: error in `%s ()': %s\nSQL: %s", file, line, fn, ocifn, msgbuf, query); } Ns_Log(Error, "%s", buf); /* We need to call this so that AOLserver will print out the relevant * error on pages served to browsers where ClientDebug is set. */ snprintf(exceptbuf, EXCEPTION_CODE_SIZE, "%d", (int) errorcode); Ns_DbSetException(dbh, exceptbuf, buf); // Ns_Free(msgbuf); // Ns_Free(buf); return 1; } Any suggestion on why this is happening? How about incorporating these changes in the standard nsoracle.c module? Thanks in advance, Maurizio -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to listserv.aol.com> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.

oci_error_p - nsoracle.c - talking about memory allocation...

Maurizio Martignano — 2008-05-04T08:11:00

oci_error_p - nsoracle.c - talking about memory allocation...

Maurizio Martignano — 2008-05-04T08:09:58

Tcl rounding question

William Scott Jordan — 2008-05-03T22:31:21

Hey all! This is really more of a tcl question, but I'm hoping that someone on the list might have an explanation. Why does [format %.2f 18.005] round down to "18.00" and [format %.2f 1.415] round up to "1.42"? Any guesses? Am I missing something obvious here? Tcl version 8.4, if it matters. Thanks! -William

"Fun, free applications for building personal sites."

Dossy Shiobara — 2008-05-03T22:03:01

Back in Feburary 2005, Dan Chak at MIT said something to me that I just haven't had the motivation to pursue. However, I really would like to hear what folks think of his statement: > What AOLServer "community" needs is a bunch of fun, free > applications for building personal sites. It's stupid, but > that's how you get the initial hook on people. I'm not sure who > is going to make and release these "fun, free apps" though, > because there's currently also no audience for it. It's kind of > a bootstrapping problem. It's definitely a chicken-and-egg problem: most newbies won't try AOLserver "for the heck of it" but would go through the trouble if there was an application they wanted to run, i.e. OpenACS. Of course, there's little motivation to develop a fun, free app. for AOLserver if nobody's going to try it out. How do we break out of this deadlock?