[Tilesathome] Error when uploading tiles

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:44:14PM +0100, Robert Jaemmrich wrote:
> Christopher Schmidt schrieb:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 03:46:21PM +0100, Robert Jaemmrich wrote:
> >   
> >> Robert Jaemmrich schrieb:
> >>     
> >> /tmp//uploadable/1195818326_10970_1_maplint_tileset.zip to
> >> http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Upload/tile2.php:
> >>   500 EOF
> >>     
> >
> > This error is not coming from the Tiles at Home server: I just checked the
> > logs for the past week, and there isn't a single 500 error in the bunch.
> >
> > Do you have a proxy between you and the t at h server? It seems likely that
> > a proxy is bailing on a 'too large' upload request, and returning a 500
> > for you. If you try grabbing an empty ocean tile, and rendering that via
> > xy mode, then uploading, does it work?
> >   
> After deleting some old (several hours) tile data in /tmp/uploadable,
> the upload is working again. I'm not using any proxy here.

Okay. I'm still not sure that this disproves the proxy theory -- even if
it's not something you run, your ISP could be running one, for example.
The fact that smaller datasets upload fine would also point towards this
as a culprit.

But that's not really a big deal if it works, I suppose :)

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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