[OSM-dev] 500 Server Error ... when deleting an OSM element

[Bernd Raichle]

On Tuesday, 27 November 2007 14:50:15 +0000,
Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> writes:
 > In message <18252.10868.205902.441288 at comedy.dante.de> Bernd Raichle <bernd at dante.de> wrote:
 > > starting a few days ago, each "delete" call returns "500 Server Error".
 > 
 > Don't you think it would have been sensible to report this when it
 > started happening instead of waiting several days?

I want to make sure that it is not me who made an error ...


[...]
 > 
 > Well I've just deleted that node via the API and it worked fine.

Ok, I have tried it on the "telnet" level without authentification
... and found _my_ "error".  I work behind a very strict firewall and
a restricted http proxy.  The IT admins seems to have changed the
allowed http methods over the weekend.  GET and PUT is still working
(haha :-), but DELETE is not :-(.


 > > Adding new elements and changing the tagging of any element works
 > > perfectly, but I can't delete an element, neither a node nor a way.
 > > (As workaround I remove all tags of the elements to be deleted and tag
 > > them with "note=DELETEME".)
 > 
 > I'm not sure that's very helpful - it will be hard to find them again
 > later and remove them. It would have been better to report it at the
 > time so the problem could be investigated.

JOSM's search is good enough to find them.  And then it is very simple
to delete them.


[...]
 > If you can still reproduce this problem then please let me know the 
 > details object which you are unable to delete and the time at which
 > you tried to delete it so I can examine the logs.


Thanks for your effort.
  -bernd