[newmaint-site] Problems with DC submission

[Enrico Zini]

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 05:41:12PM +0000, Martín Ferrari wrote:

> Since a few days ago I noticed my (fairly large) cron job that submits
> data on git.d.o started to fail with a cryptic message
> (simplejson.decoder.JSONDecodeError: No JSON object could be decoded).
> 
> Finally, I changed the code to output the JSON that was getting returned
> from the application, and it became clear that I hit two different bugs.
> 
> One is that it seems the submission is too big for some django limit on
> the size of the POST data. I checked and the JSON being posted is about
> 1.5 MiB in size. No thing way too crazy... Can we increase this limit?
> 
> The other is that this error for some reason did not follow the usual
> route, and instead of getting properly wrapped error, I got a 500
> response with an HTML content. So, either the server application is
> failing to be consistent, or the client is not being able to handle this
> kind of problem.

In my experience, when this happens it is a problem in python-requests:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801506
and submitting with curl actually works. The bug has an example curl
line to redo the same that dc-tool is doing.

If you hit some django limit with curl we can indeed look into relaxing
it, and I would expect the limit to be related to form post data, and
not to file uploads.


Enrico

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