[Xitami] corrupted downloads.

[Maurilio Longo]

Pieter Hintjens ha scritto:

> On 11/22/05, Reg <rbeck at laketown.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello: What I was saying before is that I cannot download the Xitami
> > packages from THEIR own server which I imagine uses their own FTP,
>
> Hmmm, the Xitami packages on xitami.com are downloaded via HTTP not
> FTP, and the downloads should work just fine.
>
> The Xitami FTP server is buggy, yes. Bad code, written by a sloppy
> programmer, and we've never had the time to fix it.  We have said some
> time ago that for production FTP usage, you will be wise to use a real
> FTP server.  Xitami's FTP is useful mainly for uploading files to web
> sites, and it works fine for this.
>
> For users having trouble downloading responses from Xitami, you should
> check whether you're using the last version.  There were some bugs in
> the past that caused CGI output to be truncated in some cases.

Yes, latest code, the problem seems to be bound to client speed, I mean, the
same file can be downloaded without problems by clients coming from a fast
connection (ADSL or more) but gets truncated if the client is coming from a
dial-up, 56k modem, connection.

> I'm sorry not to be able to provide better news, such as updates and
> fixes.  Xitami has been frozen for some time.  We keep the web site
> and these lists up, and we make security patches, but the
> functionality is on ice until someone gives us or we find the money to
> make a new version.

Really sad.

Best regards.

Maurilio.

>
>
> Cheers,
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> Pieter Hintjens
> iMatix Corporation
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