ValueError: Invalid boundary in multipart form

[Laura Czajkowski]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  Module zope.publisher.publish, line 127, in publish
    request.processInputs()
  Module zope.publisher.browser, line 297, in processInputs
    keep_blank_values=1)
  Module cgi, line 508, in __init__
    self.read_multi(environ, keep_blank_values, strict_parsing)
  Module cgi, line 637, in read_multi
    environ, keep_blank_values, strict_parsing)
  Module cgi, line 508, in __init__
    self.read_multi(environ, keep_blank_values, strict_parsing)
  Module cgi, line 622, in read_multi
    raise ValueError, 'Invalid boundary in multipart form: %r' % (ib,)
ValueError: Invalid boundary in multipart form: ''

https://oops.canonical.com/?oopsid=OOPS-ece6d3cc2dac47fdfc01819f375fcd73

[Nathan Williams (nwilliams)]

The zip file I originally ran into trouble with is here:
https://launchpad.net/akiban-persistit/trunk/3.2.0/+download/akiban-persistit-3.2.0.zip

That was from stock Firefox 16.0.1 (no plugins or extensions) on Mac OSX 10.8.2. The same file uploads fine from Chrome 22.0.1229.94.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

The OOPS occurred four times yesterday, all from the one host and browser: OOPS-bb9eec4206bec9c0f1f2dbd924716778, OOPS-ece6d3cc2dac47fdfc01819f375fcd73, OOPS-fccefdf587b1fbadd651b91a4282240d on +adddownloadfile, and OOPS-3d3862fdc11ed81ce23814268596e325 on +addcomment on this bug. The request CONTENT_LENGTH had a different size each time: 1213201, 1213171, 3116544, or 1212722.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

There have been 18 "Invalid boundary" OOPSes in the last week, all except one on +adddownloadfile from the same "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0" browser. The one that wasn't +addownloadfile was +addcoment, from the same browser.

Nathan, do other file uploads work OK from your Firefox installation? Have you tried uploading the same file to a site other than Launchpad?

[Nathan Williams (nwilliams)]

> There have been 18 "Invalid boundary" OOPSes in the last week

I tried many times, thinking it was a timeout or such, the day the milestone was released. Then I tried a different file, unrelated files, old milestone releases I re-downloaded from Launchpad, etc. Then a few more days after that to see if it was sporadic.

> The one that wasn't +addownloadfile was +addcoment, from the same browser.

Also me, trying to attach an example file to a comment on this bug. Though I don't suspect it is a file specific problem, as all of the zips I have tried yield the error.

> Nathan, do other file uploads work OK from your Firefox installation?

Yes. The two tar.gz files on the milestone were uploaded from the same OS/browser combo:
https://launchpad.net/akiban-persistit/trunk/3.2.0

> Have you tried uploading the same file to a site other than Launchpad?

Yep. The same exact zip files upload fine from Chrome. I didn't think to try another browser until Laura linked to bug423880.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

On 24/10/12 00:43, Nathan Williams wrote:
> Yep. The same exact zip files upload fine from Chrome. I didn't think to
> try another browser until Laura linked to bug423880.

I can upload it fine from Firefox 16.0. Have you tried uploading to a
non-launchpad.net site, so we can see if it's a general problem with the
way your installation of Firefox constructs a form using that file?

[Nathan Williams (nwilliams)]

> I can upload it fine from Firefox 16.0.

16.0.1 on OSX? I've tried both safe mode and a new install of Firefox, to no avail.

> Have you tried uploading to a non-launchpad.net site

Picked one a random and it uploaded fine:
http://www.filedropper.com/akiban-persistit-320

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