Re: Online Version Checking
Re: Online Version Checking
- Subject: Re: Online Version Checking
- From: "Clark S. Cox III" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:47:31 -0400
On Saturday, June 26, 2004, at 12:59PM, J Nozzi <email@hidden> wrote:
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I'm actually having a problem with this.
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Recently, my hosting company moved my site to a Windows IIS server
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with no hope of going back to a *nix-based box. Since then, my version
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checking routine has been broken. Serving the version control file (a
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dictionary saved / served as a text file) from my own system works
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fine, but it gives me a parse error:
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2004-06-25 19:40:26.031 MyApp[5465] CFLog (0):
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CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not
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proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
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/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Resources/types.plist
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The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected
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in the plist.
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... again, this works fine when hosted from my Mac. It's only when the
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versioncontrol.txt file is served from the IIS server that I get this
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error.
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The server is obviously modifying the content as it's being served.
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This could be fixed easily enough, I'm sure, by changing it to
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something like '.dat' and having the version info be served as an
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'application/octet-stream' but that doesn't help fix the problem for my
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existing users.
How, exactly, is the server modifying it? What information can you glean by diff'ing the two files?
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