Re: xmlrpc crashing out with error

[Tim Channon <tc@...>]

"Document validates OK."
according to http://cds.library.brown.edu/service/xmlvalid/

Document in this case is the echoed complaint from the Lua XMLRPC code.

However, passing the contents of a file to a remote validator might be
sanitising something or other.

On 09/01/2014 04:21, Tim Channon wrote:
> Replying to myself, figured how to capture the error message, 18k of it.
> 
> It says it isn't an XML document, not a surprise. Given the data source
> this is a surprise (source is a very well known server cloud), either
> way must be handled.
> 
> On 09/01/2014 02:15, Tim Channon wrote:
>> I am using xmlrpc heavily. Code is working on a smaller real test then I
>> try the important large test for real.
>>
>> Five or more minutes in it throws an error on what I suspect is
>> convoluted xml.
>> Such as
>> <string>a:6:{i:0;i:610;i:1;i:278;i:2;i:3;i:3;
>> s:24:&quot;width=&quot;610&quot;
>> height=&quot;278&quot;&quot;;s:4:&quot;bits&quot;;i:8;s:4:&quot;mime&quot;;s:9:&quot;image/png&quot;;}</string>
>>
>>
>>
>> stack traceback:
>>         [C]: in function 'error'
>>         ... \xmlrpc\init.lua:545: in function <...\xmlrpc\init.lua:542>
>>         (tail call): ?
>> ( ... is edited out code path, security )
>>
>> This is beyond my understanding. Any clues anyone?
>> Debug here involves print statements or dump to disk.
>>
>> Version
>> _DESCRIPTION = "LuaXMLRPC is a library to make remote procedure calls
>> using XML-RPC"
>> _PKGNAME = "LuaXMLRPC"
>> _VERSION_MAJOR = 1
>> _VERSION_MINOR = 2
>> _VERSION_MICRO = 1
>>
>>
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