[Developers] bug: upload fails for certain strings

[Mike Travers]

Yes, this is to sandbox, my login ID is "mt" and I've been doing this
sporadically all this afternoon, and again just now.  Changing to
text/plain doesn't seem to help.

Mike

On 3/31/07, John Giannandrea <jg at metaweb.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
> We have had some bugs around content type sniffing.
> You might try setting the mime type to text/plain.
> Are you uploading to sandbox?  if so could you give us
> your login id or an approx log time so we can find the
> actual upload entries.
> Thanks.
> -jg
>
> On Mar 31, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Mike Travers wrote:
>
> > [Apologies if this isn't the right place for bug reports.]
> >
> > I'm bulk-uploading some data and ran into a bug. The upload service
> > fails for certain strings. Here's what I see, using the Python upload
> > routine included in the API documentation:
> >
> >>>> metaweb.upload("random string", "text/text", credentials)
> > u'#9202a8c04000641f800000000504e188'
> >>>> metaweb.upload("P1,", "text/text", credentials)
> > {u'status': u'400', u'messages': [u'image/x-portable-bitmap is not an
> > acceptable mime-type.']}
> >
> >>>> metaweb.upload(" P1,", "text/text", credentials)
> > u'#9202a8c04000641f800000000504e18e'
> >>>> metaweb.upload("P1", "text/text", credentials)
> > u'#9202a8c04000641f800000000504e182'
> >>>> metaweb.upload("P2.foo", "text/text", credentials)
> > {u'status': u'400', u'messages': [u'image/x-portable-graymap is not an
> > acceptable mime-type.']}
> >
> > As you can see, content that begins "P1," causes an error. Some other
> > variants like the last also cause bad behavior.  Also, the error JSON
> > that comes back is formatted in a way that breaks the normal upload
> > routine, which expects the 'messages' slot to contain a list of dicts.
> >
> > Chasing this a bit further, it looks like something bad happens (Ajax
> > hang) if you try to make a topic description that begins "P1," in the
> > web interface as well.
> >
> > I guess something is trying to be clever about inferring the content
> > type from the content. Unfortunately, it's being overly clever in this
> > case since I actually do have a text string that begins this way!
> > ("P1,P4-bis(5'-Guanosyl) tetraphosphate is an intermediate in the
> > metabolism of Pyrimidine. It is a substrate for
> > Bis(5'-nucleosyl)-tetraphosphatase.", if you are curious).
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