Re: 2.1 bugs left over from beta cycle

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 16378
interpreted = N
texte = We should be able to deal with all of these, if they are as easily reproducable as you mention, very quickly. Hopefully all will be included in the NT release next week and soon after in a Mac update.John.>Hi all, > >Now that Webcat 2.1 has gone final, I was wondering when we could expect to >see the next beta... :) > >We still have 2 outstanding issues with Webcat and one with Emailer that >either I or michaelw reported previously: > >1) Spurious error messages clogging up my Errorlog: Error: Can't open >order file. Ignoring [OrderFile] context. This is caused by using an >orderfile context inside of a listfiles context. The functionality of the >code is correct, but this extra logging is starting to become quite >annoying (at several MB per day). > >2) [index] inside [lineitems] wrapped in a [loop] causes 4 characters after >[index] to be eaten by webcat. So the code: >[index][showif 1=1] becomes [index]wif 1=1] > >which can obviously cause some problems. Working around this is pretty >easy, but it should be fixed nonetheless. > >3) Emailer 2.0b4 does not retry sending mail, nor does it bounce the mail >to the sender. Generally our web server becomes very busy (too many >orderfile commands in a script cause our g3 to CRAWL), causing mail to >timeout. If Emailer had some kind of non-infinite retry method for sending >mail, it would make things run much more smoothly. Similarly, if a user >enters an invalid to address, it would be extremely useful if that message >was bounced back to the sender. I currently have to surf the EmailerLog >every day to look for failed and unsent messages. > >While none of these items are critical, they are problems that we were >hoping would be fixed before Webcat 2.1 went final. I would appreciate any >info PCS can provide on timetables for resolving these problems. > >Thanks, > >Dale > > ________________________ ______________________________ >| Dale LaFountain | mailto:dalel@dhorse.com | >| MIS Director,WebMaster | web: http://www.dhorse.com/ | >| Dark Horse Comics, Inc.|Phone: 503-652-8815 x324 | >\_________ID97___________|______________________________/ John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing Pacific Coast Software eCommerce / Web Developer Tools http://www.smithmicro.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: 2.1 bugs left over from beta cycle (John Hill 1998)
  2. Re: 2.1 bugs left over from beta cycle (Britt T. 1998)
  3. 2.1 bugs left over from beta cycle (Dale LaFountain 1998)
We should be able to deal with all of these, if they are as easily reproducable as you mention, very quickly. Hopefully all will be included in the NT release next week and soon after in a Mac update.John.>Hi all, > >Now that Webcat 2.1 has gone final, I was wondering when we could expect to >see the next beta... :) > >We still have 2 outstanding issues with Webcat and one with Emailer that >either I or michaelw reported previously: > >1) Spurious error messages clogging up my Errorlog: Error: Can't open >order file. Ignoring [orderfile] context. This is caused by using an >orderfile context inside of a listfiles context. The functionality of the >code is correct, but this extra logging is starting to become quite >annoying (at several MB per day). > >2) [index] inside [lineitems] wrapped in a [loop] causes 4 characters after >[index] to be eaten by webcat. So the code: >[index][showif 1=1] becomes [index]wif 1=1] > >which can obviously cause some problems. Working around this is pretty >easy, but it should be fixed nonetheless. > >3) Emailer 2.0b4 does not retry sending mail, nor does it bounce the mail >to the sender. Generally our web server becomes very busy (too many >orderfile commands in a script cause our g3 to CRAWL), causing mail to >timeout. If Emailer had some kind of non-infinite retry method for sending >mail, it would make things run much more smoothly. Similarly, if a user >enters an invalid to address, it would be extremely useful if that message >was bounced back to the sender. I currently have to surf the EmailerLog >every day to look for failed and unsent messages. > >While none of these items are critical, they are problems that we were >hoping would be fixed before Webcat 2.1 went final. I would appreciate any >info PCS can provide on timetables for resolving these problems. > >Thanks, > >Dale > > ________________________ ______________________________ >| Dale LaFountain | mailto:dalel@dhorse.com | >| MIS Director,WebMaster | web: http://www.dhorse.com/ | >| Dark Horse Comics, Inc.|Phone: 503-652-8815 x324 | >\_________ID97___________|______________________________/ John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing Pacific Coast Software eCommerce / Web Developer Tools http://www.smithmicro.com John Hill

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