Re: Polipo is giving segfault sometime.

David,

  Looks like that crash was happening because I have edit some files, I
debugged the issue and I have fixed it.
Thanks for extending the help. Are you maintaining the Polipo now?

Thanks,
-Rajeev

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:13 PM, David Röthlisberger <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 15 Oct 2012, at 10:49, Rajeev Bansal wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:11 PM, David Röthlisberger <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On 13 Oct 2012, at 03:18, Rajeev Bansal wrote:
> > > I am using the head branch of the Polipo, I am seeing crashes
> sometimes,
> > > when I cancel the ongoing download. Any idea why it happens.
> >
> > Is there any chance you could provide an automated test case that
> > reproduces this problem? Just a shell script that starts polipo, starts
> > an http client like curl, then cancels the download halfway through.
> > Yes, you are right David script is exactly same as you have explained.
> >
> > while:
> > do
> > curl -x 127.0.0.1:8123 <some-url> -o file
> > done
>
> That isn't quite what I meant. I meant a real script that I can run on
> my computer, that will reproduce the problem without me having to do any
> additional work. Not pseudo-code.
>
> The reason I asked is that I haven't seen the crash that you are seeing;
> so I need help from you to reproduce the issue.
>
> If you don't think you can provide an automated script, then the
> following specific information would be helpful:
>
> + A real, publicly-visible URL that is causing you trouble.
> + How much of it do you allow to download before cancelling?
> + Can you reproduce the problem using curl and cancelling the download
>   with Control-C? (As opposed to downloading via a web browser or other
>   http client.)
>
> Other information you could provide:
>
> + Run "polipo logLevel=0xFF" and give us the console output from polipo
>   (if any) when it crashes.
> + Edit log.h to increase LOGGING_MAX to 0xFFFFFFFF, recompile polipo,
>   and run it again with logLevel=0xFFFFFFFF.
> + Generate a corefile when polipo crashes, and give us the backtrace.
>
> Of all these, the backtrace would probably be the most useful.
>
> One last thing: Does the same problem happen when using polipo 1.0.4.1?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave.
>
>
>
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