Folks,

I had to re-build the NNTP server indexes and caches again while trying 
to diagnose a feed issue. This may cause the need to fetch headers again 
(at least for those who had this problem last time I needed to do this).

-- Chris

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Current status: we've run into an issue with the NEWNEWS NNTP command on 
the new architecture and have had to disable it. Since this was the way 
the web view got postings into the DB I've had to work around it. The 
new method works fine but isn't automated yet. I ran it once to import 
all the posts that were made since the server came back up; these are 
now available in the webview. I'll automate it in the next day or so, 
until then new posts won't turn up.

I also noticed an issue with posts containing high ASCII (e.g. hex A0, 
which is a non-breaking space). With everything running under UTF-8 
encoding now, PHP considers these as invalid code sequences when calling 
htmlentities() or htmlspecialchars(), leading to blank lines anywhere 
one is present (e.g. http://news.povray.org/60567d33@news.povray.org has 
these in the blank section of quoted text you see. If you don't see a 
blank section of quoted text, it means we've now fixed it :)

This will likely manifest it as strangeness in other parts of the 
webview since invalid code sequences in names, titles, etc have the 
potential to get turned into blank strings.

There is a workaround for it (ENT_SUBSTITUTE, which looks fugly, or 
ENT_IGNORE (which may have security implications). We'll work out what 
to do and let you know. In the meantime if you spot anything that shows 
this issue other than in message bodies please LMK.

-- Chris

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On 3/26/21 8:44 AM, Chris Cason wrote:
In the meantime if you spot anything that shows
> this issue other than in message bodies please LMK.
> 
> -- Chris

Is this related to the message digests?   I can see recent posts in the 
actual groups, but the message digests are still pre-crash.

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On 26.03.2021 18:44, Bald Eagle wrote:
> On 3/26/21 8:44 AM, Chris Cason wrote:
> In the meantime if you spot anything that shows
>> this issue other than in message bodies please LMK.
>>
>> -- Chris
> 

> actual groups, but the message digests are still pre-crash.

No,can't be. the digests are dynamically generated. So what you see 
would be a bug.

The problem with non-ASCII is related to the codebase being pre-propper 
UTF8 support pretty much everywhere, and now having to work with code 
that does UTF8 properly. The good news is that this means that most 
likely all known problems will get fixed now that developed over the 
past two decades, as I will be reviewing the whole code for UTF8 issues 
in the next few days (unlike Chris, I have to deal with UTF8 more 
frequently in Germany...)

Thorsten

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On 27/03/2021 04:44, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Is this related to the message digests? I can see recent posts in the
> actual groups, but the message digests are still pre-crash.

Digests seem to be working for me (or at least are not the pre-crash
version). Try a shift-reload on the page in question to force flushing
of your browser cache, see if it makes a difference. If not please LMK
the particular page you see this on.

-- Chris

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Current status: posts are now auto-importing into the web view DB. The 
schedule is as before (every 5 minutes).

Additionally posting from the web view has now been re-enabled; those 
who use that interface may like to test some posts and attachments. 
Please LMK of any issues.

-- Chris

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hi,

Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> Current status: posts are now auto-importing into the web view DB. The
> schedule is as before (every 5 minutes).
>
> Additionally posting from the web view has now been re-enabled; those
> who use that interface may like to test some posts and attachments.
> Please LMK of any issues.
>

first off, thank you + all involved for your work, for the continuity.

I've been using the RSS feed to read new posts (on Android), but even after
refresh (and re-subscribe a few minutes ago) I see the date/time of posts but no
content.


regards, jr.

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On 28/03/2021 00:11, jr wrote:
> refresh (and re-subscribe a few minutes ago) I see the date/time of posts but no
> content.

I'll have a look it.

-- Chris

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On 28/03/2021 00:11, jr wrote:
> I've been using the RSS feed to read new posts (on Android), but even after
> refresh (and re-subscribe a few minutes ago) I see the date/time of posts but no
> content.

Should be fixed now.

-- Chris

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hi,

Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> On 28/03/2021 00:11, jr wrote:
> > ... RSS ...
>
> Should be fixed now.

looks good, thank you.


regards, jr.

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