Re: [leafnode-list] 2.0b8_ma3 SIGPIPE?!

[Stefan Wiens <s.wi@xxxxxxx>]

Raymond Scholz <rscholz@xxxxxx> writes:

> 1. fetchnews continuously complains with "read broken xover line, too
>    few fields" and skips the broken(?) article.
>
> read broken xover line, too few fields: "2856	Atompilz?	"Sven Osterholt" <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxx>	Sun, 20 May 2001 09:34:14 +0200	<9e7rrt$87e$01$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>			7	Xref: newsread1.nexgo.de de.alt.rec.ascii-art:2856", skipping

The Article is OK.

>    I see this _very_ often, say 10% of the fetched articles from
>    different upstream servers are claimed to be broken.  Upstream
>    servers are news.nexgo.de, news.dfncis.de and
>    news.informatik.uni-bremen.de

in strutil.c:94  (strnsplit())

        if (*x) x += strspn(x, sep);

will skip adjacent '\t' characters. An empty field will be completely
ignored.

Fetchnews will download only followups.

Your upstream server doesn't supply Bytes: information, so there is
another empty XOVER field.

Stefan


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