[Clipart] Getting ready to give up.

[Jon Phillips]

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Jurgen, any and all help is appreciated! The upload script is actually a
cgi script, so perl is the language for that script.

Pointing us all in the right direction for a fix and making a fix are
both valuable contributions :)

Jon

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 20:11 +0100, Jurgentje wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> not sure if I still have the hang of PHP... but is there a spot where I 
> can look into the source code of the upload script?
> maybe - if I find out not being in the "little league" and if I find 
> some spare time - I could give it a shot too...
> 
> For starters, I'd just have a look... I'll tell if I think I'm onto 
> something.
> Usually I'm better at finding problems than finding solutions, but I 
> guess if I could pinpoint sth... it would be a great help too. ;)
> 
> Jurgen.
> 
> Jon Phillips wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:04 -0800, Open Clip Art Library Feedback Form
> > wrote:
> >   
> >> Name: Adrian Stovall
> >> E-mail: drakaan at gmail.com
> >>
> >>
> >> BugID 5619 is a show-stopper for me.  I'd really like to contribute,
> >> but since I can apparently only upload zero-byte files, that's
> >> impossible.
> >>
> >> There's no mention of what causes the problem (it's a 16K svg file
> >> with keywords created in inkscape 0.42), so I don't know if there's
> >> something I need to be doing differently, or if uploads are just
> >> partially fubared.
> >>
> >> Can somebody please let me know if I need to just wait, come back
> >> later, change something about the file, help the site devs fix the
> >> uploads, etc?
> >>     
> >
> > Hi Adrian,
> >
> > We have all been super busy and haven't had time to fix this problem.
> >
> > The best workaround at the moment is to add all metadata in Inkscape,
> > and upload your files from the main page individually.
> >
> > Doing this seems to work.
> >
> > We have bug with our upload script.
> >
> > Please don't give up :) Please bear with us.
> >
> > If you have some php skills, maybe you could help us look at the
> > problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jon
> 
> 
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