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Dear Wikia
I had a site where a bot would upload generated images from some programs I was running.
This worked fine for a week or so, and several dozen images + pages were uploaded in this manner.
Now all of a sudden today, I am getting random errors when I try to do the uploads. I am getting mysterious HTTP failures, JSON errors, various other mishaps during upload.
As a test, I re-ran my scripts to upload to referata instead of wikia, and they work fine. So it is not my scripts, it is wikia.
I am wondering what exactly has happened. I cannot find any documentation and the error messages from mediawiki are cryptic. Thank you —This unsigned comment is by Donbright (wall • contribs). Please sign your comments by adding "~~~~" in the source editor.
- Can you paste the error messages here? Monchoman45 Talk Contribs Skystone 20:03,12/3/2011
- im using mwclient from sourceforge and python, i guess the problem might be there... but then again, it works fine with referata, and worked fine with wikia for several days over hundreds of files, why fail today?
- i was getting a httplib.BadStatusLine errors, causing the bot to die
- i inserted time.sleep(5) which seemed to help a little, but it still crashed.
- There is no set pattern to the failures. sometimes it crashes after 15 files uploaded, sometimes it crashes after 1 file uploaded.
upload 25755 bytes from OpenSCAD_freebsd_i386_software-rasterizer_ssec__home_don_openscad_tests_regression_opencsgtest_for-nested-tests-expected.png ...
type <type 'str'>
len 25755
debug api data dump: {"upload":{"result":"Success","filename":"OpenSCAD_freebsd_i386_software-rasterizer_ssec_home_don_openscad_tests_regression_opencsgtest_for-nested-tests-expected.png","imageinfo":{"timestamp":"2011-12-03T20:25:22Z","user":"Openscadbot","size":25755,"width":512,"height":512,"url":"http:\/\/images.wikia.com\/cakebaby\/images\/b\/be\/OpenSCAD_freebsd_i386_software-rasterizer_ssec_home_don_openscad_tests_regression_opencsgtest_for-nested-tests-expected.png","descriptionurl":"http:\/\/cakebaby.wikia.com\/wiki\/File:OpenSCAD_freebsd_i386_software-rasterizer_ssec_home_don_openscad_tests_regression_opencsgtest_for-nested-tests-expected.png","comment":"OpenSCAD test","sha1":"2608767a96b6cb51a575f667a3b33a246c41d508","metadata":null,"mime":"image\/png","bitdepth":8}}} end debug api data dump
image uploaded
^^^^ thats a good one
upload 11055 bytes from OpenSCAD_freebsd_i386_software-rasterizer_ssec__home_don_openscad_tests_regression_opencsgtest_color-tests-expected.png ...
type <type 'str'>
len 11055
debug api data dump: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>MediaWiki API</title>
</head>
<body>
<pre>
<span style="color:blue;"><?xml version="1.0"?></span>
<span style="color:blue;"><api></span>
<span style="color:blue;"><error code="help" info="" xml:space="preserve"></span>
<b>******************************************************************</b>
<b>** **</b>
<b>** This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page **</b>
<b>** **</b>
<b>** Documentation and Examples: **</b>
** <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API</a> **
<b>** **</b>
<b>******************************************************************</b>
Status: All features shown on this page should be working, but the API
is still in active development, and may change at any time.
Make sure to monitor our mailing list for any updates.
Documentation: <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API</a>
Mailing list: <a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api">http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api</a>
Bugs & Requests: <a href="http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?component=API&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&order=bugs.delta_ts">http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?component=API&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&order=bugs.delta_ts</a>
^^^ thats a bad one. its just spitting back the api.php page.
here is another example with the connection set_debuglevel(1)
send: '\r\n'
send: '------fUqVc0yrcm0qgb33LiqlSZM253NcSzPX----\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="comment"\r\n\r\nOpenSCAD test\r\n------fUqVc0yrcm0qgb33LiqlSZM253NcSzPX----\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="ignorewarnings"\r\n\r\ntrue\r\n------fUqVc0yrcm0qgb33LiqlSZM253NcSzPX----\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="format"\r\n\r\njson\r\n------fUqVc0yrcm0qgb33LiqlSZM253NcSzPX----\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="filename"\r\n\r\nOpenSCAD_freebsd_i386_software-rasterizer_ssec__home_don_openscad_tests_regression_opencsgtest_for-nested-tests-expected.png\r\n------fUqVc0yrcm0qgb33LiqlSZM253NcSzPX----\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="token"\r\n\r\n1098a8a8e876a29732af8f103b262e8d+\\\r\n------fUqVc0yrcm0qgb33LiqlSZM253NcSzPX----\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="action"\r\n\r\nupload'
send: '\r\n------fUqVc0yrcm0qgb33LiqlSZM253NcSzPX------\r\n'
reply: ''
send: 'POST /api.php HTTP/1.1\r\nContent-Length: 26836\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nHost: cakebaby.wikia.com\r\nUser-Agent: MwClient/0.6.6\r\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\nCookie: wikicities_session=1e3e62fbfba992b92ce249738d2885e6; wikicitiesUserName=Openscadbot; wikicitiesToken=afeeb427d7a53cdb66c3e7c7e4083a40; wikicitiesUserID=4633358\r\nContent-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----fUqVc0yrcm0qgb33LiqlSZM253NcSzPX----\r\n\r\n'
send: <mwclient.upload.UploadFile object at 0x869c42c>
sendIng a read()able
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
header: Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:32:42 GMT
header: Server: Apache
header: MediaWiki-API-Error: help
header: Cache-Control: private
header: X-Served-By-Backend: ap-s40
header: Content-Encoding: gzip
header: Vary: Accept-Encoding
header: Content-Length: 22022
header: Connection: close
header: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
debug api data dump: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>MediaWiki API</title>
</head>
<body>
<pre>
<span style="color:blue;"><?xml version="1.0"?></span>
<span style="color:blue;"><api></span>
<span style="color:blue;"><error code="help" info="" xml:space="preserve"></span>
<b>******************************************************************</b>
<b>** **</b>
<b>** This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page **</b>
<b>** **</b>
<b>** Documentation and Examples: **</b>
** <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API</a> **
<b>** **</b>
<b>******************************************************************</b>
Status: All features shown on this page should be working, but the API
is still in active development, and may change at any time.
Make sure to monitor our mailing list for any updates.
Documentation: <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API</a>
Mailing list:
etc etc etc
Thank you.
Donbright 20:35, December 3, 2011 (UTC)
Lately there are some edit errors, like users who edit conflict themselves or getting a blank page while saving (and if you refresh you get double-post), so probably the bots are having the same issues, I noticed it too with AWB who sometimes is getting stuck, but it restarts after some seconds. leviathan_89 21:30, 3 December, 2011 (UTC)
- thank you Leviathan 89. Donbright 00:58, December 4, 2011 (UTC)