[SM][BUG] Error: can't find EOCD position

Sun Oct 8 16:09:41 UTC 2006

David T. Lewis skrev:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:40:27PM +0200, karl wrote:
>   
>> David T. Lewis skrev:
>>     
>>> A couple of my SqueakMap entries (maybe more, I have not checked them all)
>>> have decided to stop working. I got the AioPlugin entry working again by
>>> re-saving the entry, but XDisplayControlPlugin is screwed up and I can't
>>> seem to convince it to start working again.
>>>
>>> What the user sees from a SqueakMap Package Loader is a debugger with
>>> the rather unhelpful "Error: can't find EOCD position" message.
>>>
>>> <rant>
>>> How many other SqueakMap entries are messed up and the authors don't
>>> even know it? And what is a person supposed to  think when they see this?
>>> It makes people think that AioPlugin and XDisplayControlPlugin are broken,
>>> unmaintained, and unavailable, none of which is true.
>>> </rant>
>>>
>>>       
>> I have found that there is a bug in HttpSocket.
>> Try the attached method which is a older version of the method that fails.
>> I get things to work on windows with it. It also fixes an issue when 
>> trying to
>> access www.linuxfr.org from Scamper. I have not read trough the method
>> to see what have changed that cause the bug.
>> Karl
>>     
>
> Thanks Karl,
>
> I tried the patch you sent, but this seems to be a different problem.
> I think SqueakMap keeps some sort of validity checks on the file links
> and/or its internal caches, which apparently get screwed up at random
> times for no apparent reason. Oh, and I was wrong, I did not get the
> AioPlugin entry working, it's just broken differently now. I probably
> should not have tried to "fix" it.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>   
I think the problem is that the SqueakMap server image has the buggy 
HTTPSocket version and downloads a bogus file.

Look at the issue brought up by Göran before.(attached)

Karl

goran at krampe.se skrev:
> Hi!
>
> Benoit St-Jean <bstjean at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  
>> Oups!  Posted my reply in French...
>>
>> Stéphane, I never implied that this release was s***. I noticed the 
>> huge number of changes that went into
>> this release and good job to everyone.  BUT right now
>> a lot of packages don't load into 3.9.
>>
>> I guess those packages will eventually get updated but
>> right now, this is very frustrating!
>>
>> For instance, on my last attempt trying to install the
>> Chronos package creates a "Error occurred during
>> install: can't find EOCD position"...
>>     
>
> That particular one sounds like SM server side cache gone wrong. Let me
> try to fix that one right away....
>
> ...churn, churn, blonk, klonk... silence... Hmm? twirl, bang! bang!
> Sigh...
>
> Hmmm, ok, I think this was harder than I thought. It seems to me that
> the stuff returned from that URL is this:
>
> '<HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1">
> <TITLE>chronos-st.org:80</TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <FRAMESET
> ROWS="130,*" FRAMEBORDER=0 BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0>
>   <FRAME
> NAME="content"
> SRC="http://vhost.r4l.com/top_frm?domain=chronos-st.org:80"
> marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 noresize scrolling=no>
>   <FRAME
> NAME="content"
> SRC="http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?s=chronos-st.
> org:80&cid=REGI991N&uid=62.181.231.43&dp_p4pid=oingo_inclusion_xml_10&dp
> _lp=7&dp_pu=2&dp_format=1.3" marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 noresize>
>  
> <NOFRAMES>
>     <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1">
>     <META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;
> url=chronos-st.org:80">
>   </NOFRAMES>
> </FRAMESET>
> </HTML>
> '
>
> But using say wget or firefox I get the Chronos.sar file allright. Not
> sure why this code does not work:
>
> 'http://chronos-st.org/downloads/Squeak/Chronos.sar' asUrl
> retrieveContents contents
>
> Anyone?
>
> regards, Göran
>
>
>   
I reverted
HTTPSocket class httpGetDocument: url args: args accept: mimeType 
request: requestString
to version tlk 1/22/2004 and I got the right content downloaded.
Karl