[Haskell-cafe] HaskellWiki image upload fails because of - probably - the filesize.

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:11 AM, And1  wrote:
> Hey dear Haskell-Cafe-Readers,
>
> I tried several times to upload several images - screenshots that is - to
> my HaskellWiki/Xmonad site:
>
> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:And1_xmonad.png
>
> I always get the error, that the connection to the site/server was
> reset.
>
> I mailed both administrators of the HaskellWiki but I got, for about 2-4
> weeks now, no reply.
>
> I tried to upload the following images, maybe that's important:
>
> http://and1.donnergurgler.net/misc/screen_2008-09-26.png
> http://and1.donnergurgler.net/misc/screen_2008-11-02.png
> http://and1.donnergurgler.net/misc/screen_2008-11-10.png
>
> I was told, that the problem is maybe the filesize of the new images,
> because it is bigger, then the filesize of the image already uploaded.
>
> Thanks for reading this and hopefully finding the problem,

Size would not be the issue; I've uploaded multimegabyte tarballs in
the past. I tried uploading one of your images and the connection
fails immediately, so it looks to me also like there is a problem in
the MediaWiki server.

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gwern
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