Re: Form submission timeouts

On 09/08/2017 17:21, Harriet Bazley wrote:
> Over the last couple of days, Netsurf has unexpectedly started timing-out
> when you attempt to send messages of more than a certain length via the
> www.fanfiction.net website, either via the user forums or the PM system.
> PMs have an official site limit of 8000 characters (and I've successfully
> sent messages of up to this length before) and so far as I recall the forum
> post size limit is 9,999 characters.
>
> Currently I just get a time-out error after about twenty seconds if I
> attempt to send messages of over 1,485 characters via a PM or a post of
> more than 1,343 characters to a forum. This is quite limiting when
> attempting to reply to other users -- especially as the site rules prohibit
> sending more than one post in succession!
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Request Timeout
>
> This request took too long to process, it has been timed out by the server.
> If it should not be timed out, please contact the administrator of the
> website to increase the 'Connection Timeout' time allotted.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I've looked at Netsurf's logs, but the failed attempts aren't showing any
> error messages other than a 20-second gap. There were site-wide problems
> with the forums recently, but this particular issue doesn't seem to be
> affecting anybody else.
>
> Do these specific byte lengths suggest anything to anyone?
>
>
Maybe similar to http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2252 ?
Set suppress_curl_debug:0 in Choices and have another look at the log file.

Chris