Error Opening Microsoft Word Attachment

[khinners]

I have Trac 0.11b2 setup on Windows running Python 2.5.2. When I attach a Microsoft Word document, it uploads fine. I can open the attachment on the Trac server fine and the file size is identical. I can also open the file over a network connection without problems. However, when I try to open the attachment or download to my local computer to open the file, I get a "Word experienced an error trying to open the file" message in Microsoft Word.

[cboos]

Upgrade to rc1, this has probably been fixed by r6935.

[khinner]

I am attempting the upgrade to 0.11rc1. However, when I run the easy_install script I get the following error:

C:\>easy_install Trac==0.11rc1 Searching for Trac==0.11rc1 Reading  http://pypi.python.org/simple/Trac/ Reading  http://trac.edgewall.com/ Reading  http://projects.edgewall.com/trac Reading  http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/TracDownload Best match: Trac 0.11rc1 Downloading  ftp://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/trac/Trac-0.11rc1.win32.exe error: Download error for  ftp://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/trac/Trac-0.11rc1.win32.exe: (11001, 'getaddrinfo failed')

Please assist.

[cboos]

Download that file directly then execute it?

[khinner]

I manually downloaded the executable identified above and ran it without errors. I then restarted my web server. Then I performed the steps listed at TracUpgrade, which ran fine.

However, when I run my upgraded project site, I still see Trac 0.11b2 listed in both the footer of my Wiki pages and in the Trac about page.

What am I missing?

[cboos]

You need to stop your webserver before running the installer, otherwise the Trac.../EGG-INFO folder won't be updated by the installer.

It's easy to fix. Uninstall the package, stop the webserver, re-install, restart the webserver. I'll update the TracOnWindows doc later on.

[anonymous]

I was able to upgrade my Trac installation using the following command:

easy_install -f http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/trac Trac==0.11rc1

Apparently the default easy_install selection of FTP doesn't work behind a firewall even though I have a proxy defined.

Anyway, I have now successfully upgraded my site to use 0.11rc1. I will now attempt to recreate the original reported problem.

[khinner]

Unfortunately, I am still experiencing the same problem. Now that I am on 0.11rc1, I went to the Sandbox page and successfully uploaded a new Microsoft Word attachment. However, when I try to open the attachment or download to my local computer to open the file, I get a "Word experienced an error trying to open the file" message in Microsoft Word.

[anonymous]

i've experienced this problem. it seems that trac wiki features truncates some file which corupts them

i get this with xls, doc, ppt files that I want to attach to wiki pages. I've got the same version of each components as the bug reporter

for instance, when perform and upload-download roundtrip with a 372 Ko (380 928 octets)i get my file scaled down to 232 Ko (237 568 bytes)

i checked that my file is fine : correctly sized ans openable on the server filesystem

[khinner]

Bumping up severity due to impact on my implementation.

[anonymous]

I can understand if you're frustrated, but please be fair with priorities, etc. And more info is needed here. I can't reproduce this at all on 0.11b2 or 0.11rc1. Do other binary files have this problem? It would be odd if there was a bug that just affected MS Office files, as Trac shouldn't treat them any differently. Do you have any plugins installed?

[khinner]

I tried some additional binary files. Some files work and some don't. I believe this may have to do with the size of the file. For example, an 8 kb zip file works, but a 42 kb zip file comes down corrupted. Does this help?

[justin.judd@…]

We are also experiencing the same issue with binary attachments only (simple text files are fine). Size doesn't seem to make a difference in our case. I have verified that the attachment files are fine (by browsing the server filesystem), but downloading via Trac corrupts the file.

[jhn@…]

we are on 0.11b1 on windows/apache/mod_wsgi, and recently started having this problem. it seemed that it started when we upgraded mod_wsgi from 1.3 to 2.0 using the windows binaries from  http://adal.chiriliuc.com/mod_wsgi/. downgrading mod_wsgi back to 1.3 resolved the issue. i would like to upgrade to the latest mod_wsgi at some point though.

[khinner]

I followed the advice of jhn@... and downgraded mod_wsgi to version 1.3. This did resolve the problem with attachments for me. Since my install of Trac was a new install, I had just used the latest versions of the dependencies.

[anonymous]

I had a problem similar to this some time ago that was caused by a bug in mod_python. It's possible mod_wsgi could have a similar bug.

[anonymous]

This was an issue in mod_wsgi introduced in version 2.0 whereby null character at next character after send block size would cause response to be truncated. Upgrade to mod_wsgi version 2.3. See:

 http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/issues/detail?id=100  http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ChangesInVersion0203  http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ChangesInVersion0202

This issue should likely be closed.

[jhn@…]

tested mod_wsgi 2.3 and it fixed the problem which i had while using mod_wsgi 1.3.

[cboos]

We need to fix the documentation (TracModWSGI), to mention that either 1.3 or 2.3 works, but not 2.0.

[jhn@…]

Replying to jhn@…:

tested mod_wsgi 2.3 and it fixed the problem which i had while using mod_wsgi 1.3.

excuse me, 1.3 was fine, the problem was with mod_wsgi 2.0, don't want to confuse anyone

[rblank]

Replying to cboos:

We need to fix the documentation (TracModWSGI), to mention that either 1.3 or 2.3 works, but not 2.0.

Done.

[fermulator]

confirmed.

Just upgraded my version of mod_wsgi.so to the latest and it fixed the issue. The attachments themselves, even those that might have been uploaded using the older version of mod_wsgi, are not corrupt, they just couldn't be downloaded via trac.

Simply stopping the web server, upgrading mod_wsgi, and restarting teh webserver, allowed all attachments to be downloaded without a hitch!