[Zope] ZSyncer error: "illegal data at start of file"

[Kamal Gill]

Paul,
Thanks for looking into this.  The same error is returned after 
applying the patch you provided.
Perhaps this problem is unrelated to ZSyncer since it appears to be 
platform-specific.

  - Kamal

On Oct 29, 2003, at 10:17 PM, Paul Winkler wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 03:27:52PM -0800, Kamal Gill wrote:
>> Any ideas what might be causing the following error in ZSyncer?  We're
>> running Zope 2.5.1 with ZSyncer 0.5.0-pre10 on Win2K.
>>
>>     * Error
>>     * Syntax error at line 1: illegal data at start of file
>>     * Traceback (most recent call last):
> (snip)
>> "D:
>> \PROGRA~1\MEDZOP~1\lib\python\Products\ZSyncer\xmlrpclibBasicAuth.py",
>> line 65, in request
>>       return self.parse_response(file)
>>       File "D:\PROGRA~1\MEDZOP~1\lib\python\xmlrpclib.py", line 596, 
>> in
>> parse_response
>>       p.feed(response)
>>       File "d:\Program Files\MedZopeDev/bin/lib\xmllib.py", line 168,
>> in feed
>>       self.goahead(0)
>>       File "d:\Program Files\MedZopeDev/bin/lib\xmllib.py", line 259,
>> in goahead
>>       self.syntax_error('illegal data at start of file')
>>       File "d:\Program Files\MedZopeDev/bin/lib\xmllib.py", line 794,
>> in syntax_error
>>       raise Error('Syntax error at line %d: %s' % (self.lineno,
>> message))
>> Error: Syntax error at line 1: illegal data at start of file
>
> I haven't seen this before on linux. I wonder if the platform is 
> relevant.
> hmm... ok, I see that I used os.path.normpath on URLs which is
> really a bad idea. I don't know if that's the cause of your problem but
> it's definitely bletcherous, so I've just fixed it and checked in to 
> CVS.
> I'll mail you a patch privately so you don't have to wait forever for
> sourceforge anonymous CVS to catch up with my checkin...
>
> You can try anonymous cvs access at sourceforge, but be
> sure that ZSyncer/version.txt is at least 0.5.0-pre11.
>
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>
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