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repressii in lj_dev

export.bml broken

Aug 26, 2009 16:36

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Comments 14

andy August 26 2009, 12:22:15 UTC

Care to share the whole log of HTTP communication between your client and LJ, so that it can be investigated?

sircaliban August 26 2009, 13:20:20 UTC

Try this..

http://www.livejournal.com/export_comments.bml?get=comment_meta&startid=10

The response from the server is an empty page..

I can provide an fiddler http session log if you need it, but is that really necessary?

repressii August 26 2009, 13:57:06 UTC

You can reproduce the bug easily.

Go to http://www.livejournal.com/export.bml
Tell it to export XML, type in month and year
Push "Proceed".

Bingo!
XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://www.livejournal.com/export_do.bml?authas=repressii
Line Number 1, Column 1:

pw201 August 26 2009, 13:12:07 UTC

I'm getting blank responses for the export comments stuff. I've raised a support request for this, but haven't heard anything yet.

sircaliban August 26 2009, 13:17:31 UTC

pw201 is right.

when you call

http://www.livejournal.com/export_comments.bml?get=comment_meta&startid=10

you get an empty response. you don't get any comment meta data.

I can provide an fiddler http session log if you need one.. but I doubt you'll need one since you can just replicate it with the statement above.

victor_n November 21 2009, 17:23:21 UTC

Ошибка

При обработке вашего запроса возникли ошибки. Пожалуйста, вернитесь на предыдущую страницу, сделайте необходимые изменения и отправьте данные еще раз.

* This page can't be viewed except via POST.

sircaliban November 21 2009, 19:35:23 UTC

The first time you hit the page, you issue a 'GET' request. if you are already on the page, and you hit the 'Go to URL' in the browser button, then you issue a POST request and the application returns the data being requested.

Thread 7

henrylyne August 26 2009, 17:24:55 UTC

I am looking into this problem, but have yet to identify what is causing it. Thank you for the extra details on when this problem first appeared, that is helpful.

I'll comment again here, or make a post, if I have any updates on the issue.

henrylyne August 26 2009, 23:48:38 UTC

We broke something in Perlbal, but it is fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience. The change was specific to our Production setup, and was not checked in to the LJ codebase.

repressii August 27 2009, 02:37:19 UTC

Many thanks! The export works now.

All the best
Misha

gordeonbleu March 8 2010, 18:34:23 UTC

Was the comment exporter ever fixed? When I visit either of the two links mentioned above, neither of them work.

http://www.livejournal.com/export_comments.bml
returns a page saying:

"Error
We're sorry, but there was an error in the information you submitted. Please go back and try again.
This page can't be viewed except via POST.
Invalid mode."

http://www.livejournal.com/export_comments.bml?get=comment_meta&startid=10
returns a page with a single number and a source that starts like this:

?xml version="1.0" encoding='utf-8'?

69

(livejournal)
(maxid)69(/maxid)
(comments)
(comment id='67' posterid='509016' /)
(comment id='33' posterid='509016' /)
(comment id='32' posterid='815069' /)

...with no content whatsoever.