Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

Nicolas,

Sympa is using the standard HTML "file" input type to collect the 
uploaded file. The file is then  transmitted by the web browser to the 
web server. Sympa then uses a standard CGI library to access the file.

I suspect that your problem is either due to a web browser problem 
(which one are you using ?) or that the file has some strange name or it 
is too big, causing some problems to transfer.

Nicolas Courtel wrote:

> On a brand new Sympa 5.1.2 server installed on Debian Sarge, uploading 
> a file in a shared folder generally does not work; the result of the 
> upload may be one of these:
> - sometimes works fine
> - sometimes, the file is created but remains empty
> - most of the time, it does not show up, and I get the error "No file 
> specified to upload"
>
> I believe that this problem is most probably not related to Sympa, but 
> to some external cause that I need to discover. I therefore need to 
> find out what happens between the time when I enter the file name in 
> the browser, and the call to function do_d_upload in wwsympa.fcgi, 
> where the 'uploaded_file' parameter is an empty string (the 'path' 
> parameter is always fine, though).
>
> Could someone tell me how I can see what's going on during that time?