[wp-hackers] Bug in class-snoopy.php causes Dashboard script to unexpectedly halt

[Peter Westwood]

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Jeremy Visser wrote:
> I eventually discovered that this was actually due to a strangely set value
> in class-snoopy.php. The $maxlength value, which was used in the
> _httprequest() function, was set to 500000 bytes. Snoopy was passing this
> value to fread() which only accepts up to 8192 bytes, which means that
> having $maxlength set to 500000 bytes is completely pointless. Although in
> most cases, fread will work fine, in my case it was causing problems with
> the script suddenly terminating without a trace. Changing $maxlength to 8192
> fixed the problem.
> 

Looking at the php docs for fread [1] are you sure that the limit of
8192 applies in this situation.  Reading through that page I think it
only applies to streams opened on local files not remote files over
ftp/http/whatever.

> I also noticed that the Test
> Track<http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/TestTrack/>was also
> experiencing the same symptoms when I was logged on to it the other
> day. This means that I am probably not alone in this strange behaviour.
> 
> I have filed a bug
> report<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1474137&group_id=2091&atid=102091>on
> snoopy.sf.net <http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/> , but I doubt that
> it will be fixed. I would like to see the next release of WordPress have
> $maxlength set to 8192 out of the box, as I think this will fix some
> problems with the class.
> 

Raise a ticket on trac[2] if you want something fixed in WordPress

[1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php
[2] http://trac.wordpress.org

westi
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Peter Westwood
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