Hi Chris, SentChris Withers writes:

I experienced the same weird intermittent problem yesterday that I have had on odd ocassions over the last eight months.

Basically, Zope 2.1.6 returns only half a page. By that I mean if I view source, the HTML just stops at some point through the page. The point depends on the actual time, it varies... clicking reload means you get more or less of the page than last time.

All very odd... what makes it worse is that it happens intermittently under certain cirumstances that I can't pin down. Months ago, I met a similar problem with Zope 2.1.6:

A non-deterministic amount of image data was returned rather than the complete image. The analysis revealed a missing thread synchronization between the Zope thread producing the image data and the ZServer thread delivering this data. However, I saw this problem only together with the HTTPResponse.write (i.e. streaming output), and never when a page or image was delivered traditionally. When I reported the problem, DC immediatedly answered that the problem was already fixed in CVS: the threads were now synchronized. Maybe, you should take a 2.2 ZServer and use it with your Zope 2.1.6. I do not know, however, whether this will bring up other problems. You may also look at my ZServer patch for the above problem. It definitely is not optimal, because it does not synchronize the threads but simply prevents ZServer to store large results in a temporary file. It was this concurrent access to the temporary file that led to the data loss. With the patch, I never again had problems with ZServer 2.1.6. URL:http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/ZServer.pat Dieter