[Zope] Is this a bug?

[Miruna Badescu]

Hi,

I've encountered the same problem, in similar conditions: Windows 2000
and EditPlus as external editor. After some changes saved via FTP, IE
cannot access the management console. 
However, it works with Netscape/Opera. I don't know if it's a Zope bug,
but I'd like to know how to fix it - or at least where it comes from. 

M.


|| > Vizitiu, Ciprian wrote at 2003-3-26 11:03 +0100:
|| >  > Zope 2.5.1. on Linux (also produced on 2.6.0); Macromedia
|| > HomeSite 5 on XP.
|| >  >
|| >  > Open and edit some dtml via FTP. After several open/save
|| > opperations in  > HomeSite you can no longer access the
|| > management interface with IE! Tested  > with IE 5.x and 6.x
|| > on W2K/XP and IE on Mac. The page time-outs after a  > while
|| > with the standard IE error message. It looks like the site is
|| > down.  > The only way out of the problem is
|| > Mozilla/Netscape/Opera: You open the  > management interface
|| > wo any problem at all; you have to go and open in the  > web
|| > interface ALL the documents that have been edited through the
|| > ftp  > interface and SAVE them. That's it! Double click the
|| > link and then press  > Save. It apparently fixes the problem
|| > but it looks very scary. Is this a bug  > or is there
|| > something wrong in my config?
|| >
|| > I sounds strange....
|| >
|| > However, when you are able to access Zope with other
|| > browsers, it does not seem to be a Zope problem (alone).
|| >
|| >
|| > We use HomeSite (and IE 5.5) routinely and do not the these
|| > problems. What we see, however, is a big need for file
|| > descriptors. We had to set the file descriptor limit for Zope
|| > very high. We also see lots of "sockets of unknown type"
|| > opened by the Zope process and we do not yet understand where
|| > they are there.
|| 
|| The bug I'm describing is VERY annoying and very real. I managed to
get a
|| 20M snapshot of a Data.fs that exhibits the bug. I thought that the
Zope
|| team would be interested... ;-) Anyway, since some operations done in
the
|| interface brings functionality back it is something at least
partially
|| Zope.
|| The only major problem is that it is not predictable! You can
sometimes
|| do
|| tens of open/save from HomeSite and nothing goes wrong!
|| 
|| I've dumped some of the traffic towards the machines but I didn't had
|| time
|| to analyze it. It looks like IE's requests leave the XP workstation
|| arrive
|| at the Zope server but the Zope remains silent... :-|