137192 - ftp filename too narrow to use (mozilla.org downloads: name column is not wide enough)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: FTP: Mirrors, task)

Description

[Akkana Peck]

As of this morning's build, it has become very hard to use mozilla to download
nightly builds, because the filename column has become very narrow.  For
instance, I see three different offerings of:
mozilla-i686-pc-linu..>
mozilla-i686-pc-linu..>
mozilla-i686-pc-linu..>
with no indication of which one is which.

Comment 1

[Akkana Peck]

This is a regression: it worked fine yesterday.
I looked through bonsai but didn't see any obvious signs of which checkin broke
this.

BTW, I don't see a tree view; I see an html view like 4.x had.  Is that the
correct default now, or do I have some tricky pref set that I've forgotten
about?  I looked through my prefs but didn't see anything with "ftp" in the
name.  (I like the html view just fine except for this regression, so that's not
a complaint, I just want to make sure of whether other users will see the same
problem I'm seeing.)

Comment 2

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

html is the default for ftp now.

caillon - is this fallout from your cleanups?

Comment 3

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

I can't reproduce this on any build before or after my checkin.  In any case, I
can't really see why my change would break anything since I didn't touch the
fluidity of the output.  Everything should still expand or contract as
necessary.  So this is either a tables or a style bug I think, but not sure which...

Akk, could you post the generated source of the build where it works and the
build where it doesn't?  Are they both the same (allowing for differences of
course in between newer filenames, times, etc...)  Also what is your window
size?  I just shrunk my window down to like 200x200 and still see no signs of
this which is really strange....

Comment 4

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Oh I see the problem now.  It's not ftp, but http...

Comment 5

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

This appears to be server generated output.  It looks the same on every browser
I tested.  Opera, NC4.77, and Konqueror all display the truncated output when
they didn't before.

Sending to m.o > webmaster for now.

Comment 6

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Yeah - this happens on 099 now, too.

Comment 7

[Dawn Endico]

asked the admin of those machines to change that. I think he needs to
turn on FancyIndexing

Comment 8

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Who is the admin who needs to be asked? I notice that ftp.mozilla.org now points
to 3 machines, and ftp://ftp.mozilla.org gives a NEW AOL login banner - does m.o
no longer control these?

Comment 9

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

*** Bug 137257 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[a_geek]

If it's an Apache server, the following should do it:

IndexOptions FancyIndexing NameWidth=* SuppressDescription

Who needs the "Description" field anyway?

Only _somebody_ needs to actually do it. Thanks.

Comment 11

[Dawn Endico]

this is now fixed.

Comment 12

[Andrew Schultz]

this is back!

Comment 13

[Andrew Schultz]

this is working again.

Comment 14

[Akkana Peck]

It's back again!

Comment 15

[[e-mail]]

could it be that there are several different servers with different configurations 
involved when
browsing http://ftp.mozilla.org?  This keeps switching between working
(with no desc field) and not working.

Comment 16

[Guenter Huerkamp]

first time the filename is to short.
alter 2 reload current page(shift-Strg) it works for me.
Günter

Comment 17

[Jim]

I get inconsistant results  (build 2002111404)
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/

sometimes the filename is sized correctly and sometimes it is too short.

I would like to see a some of the sorting options and possible an ability to
resize the columns when using the ftp://(whatever) mode.

Comment 18

[[e-mail]]

Does *anybody* know a contact for checking the web server configs? 
Ihave checked this again and it definitely is an intermittent problem with
the server - you can see this with other browsers (just reproduced it with
IE). I am quite sure that this is due to some kind of load balancing that
will connect you to differently configured servers randomly, or some
similar mechanism.

Comment 19

[Daniel Wang]

worksforme
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 20

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This bug worksforme with Windows Seamonkey builds 2004020909

Comment 21

[Prognathous]

Reopening. This is broken again, at least with Mozilla 1.7.3 and IE6.

I'm also changing the summary to make this bug easier to find.

Prog.

Comment 22

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I just clicked the URL here and I fail to see the problem...

However, there are 8 different FTP servers answering to that domain name, and
they all have separate configuration.  Please click the direct links on
http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html and tell us which one(s) are actually
exhibiting this problem.

Comment 23

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

OK, I just walked through them myself:
AOL California is ok.
ISC is ok.
gatech has this problem.
indiana is ok.
osuosl has this problem.
Utah is okay.
Both AOL Virginia servers are ok.

So getech and osuosl both need configuration fixed.

Comment 24

[Scott Kveton]

The OSL and Gatech have both fixed this.