[Popcon-developers] HTTP POST support for popcon
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:16:52AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Bill Allombert]
> > I have made some packages that report using both smtp and http POST
> > (to the test adress) here:
> > http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/popcon/debs
> >
> > and I plan to ask debian-devel to try them.
>
> Cool. I just tested it, and it didn't report any errors. I had a
> look at the upload script, and noticed the HTTP headers used. Instead
The server has received a http report but no matching smtp report so far.
> of using
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream
>
> I suggest using
>
> Content-Encoding: x-gzip
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> to document that the content is compressed text. I guess the current
> charset used is ASCII, but specifying utf-8 will be forward
> compatible. :)
Hmm. Will that work with popcon.cgi ? Won't that cause the webserver
to gunzip the file ?
> It is probably a good idea to move the hostname/URL to connect to into
> a configuration file. I suggest we use
> /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf for this too, and place
> local overrides in /etc/popularity-contest.conf as usual.
Yes it is in the TODO list.
> Is this version in CVS?
No.
What I am more concerned, though, is the behaviour of the cronjob in extreme
cases (no network connection, incorrect configuration, very little
bandwidth, etc.)
Cheers,
Bill.
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