Last modified: 2012-11-28 14:03:38 UTC
I'm using MediaWiki 1.9.3 with The SAINT WAMP Version: 3.4.0 Platforms:Win32(NT/2000/XP/2003) that uses APACHE v2.0.50 PHP v5.0.0 + PECL Extensions and MySQL v4.0.20d. When I try to export pages in my setup, it gives the following error in Firefox 2.0.0.11 XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: http://10.177.150.183/wiki/index.php/Special:Export Line Number 1, Column 1: � ^ and in Internet Explorer 6.0 The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'http://10.177.150.183/wiki/index.php/Special:Exp... Googling took me to http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/121566?page=unread#unread where "Tell the wiki-site.com administrators to check their configuration; are they using mod_gzip or similar in Apache? Is there an automated gzip-output configuration in PHP?" gave some hints. Accordingly, I commented out elseif ( empty( $wgNoOutputBuffer ) ) { ## Compress output if the browser supports it if( !ini_get( 'zlib.output_compression' ) ) @ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' ); } from the LocalSettings.php and now everything works fine. I'm very new to reporting bugs/mailing lists of FOSS projects, if I'm duplicating and already addressed issue, please ignore the n00b's effort, ;)
Can you deliver an accessible reproducable scenario? MediaWiki has reached a stable 1.13 version and development is ongoing at 1.14alpha. This report is on MediaWiki 1.9.3 and there appear to not be any other open reports of this nature. Suggest to close as WORKSFORME if no reproducable scenario has been delivered in a month.
If I understand correctly, "accessible reproducable scenario" would mean a publicly accessible set up to test this - but, my set up is behind company firewalls. So, resolving this issue as WORKSFORME.
Well, that may be kind of in a hurry :) You could try and put some (one page or just a few words) in test.wikipedia.org (which runs 1.14alpha) and try to reproduce the error. If you can, we may be able to help you. If you can't, you could try to upgrade to 1.13, as nothing significant changed in export since the release of 1.13. Please reopen the bug if you have been able to reproduce on a current version.
Created attachment 5191 [details] screen shot Screen shots giving the error.
Created attachment 5192 [details] screen shot giving the error
The error can be reproduced in the http://test.wikipedia.org/ Please refer to the above screen shots for the input and erroneous output. Request: POST http://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Export&action=submit, from 208.80.152.32 via sq37.wikimedia.org (squid/2.6.STABLE21) to 10.0.2.35 (10.0.2.35) Error: ERR_ZERO_SIZE_OBJECT, errno [No Error] at Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:19:08 GMT
CONFIRMED on 1.14alpha (r39353) on http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export. Could *not* reproduce on http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export (same version) with the same 2 page names (or changing to "Hoofdpagina" and "Wikipedia:Wat Wikipedia niet is", the Dutch equivalents). Could *not* reproduce on my local wiki with the same pagenames (1.14 alpha (r39616) that uses XAMPP pretty standard config with PHP 5.2.5, Apache/2.2.8 (Win32)). Raised severity and priority.
Just to add http://nl.wikipedia.org/ is powered by MediaWiki 1.14alpha (r39353) see http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciaal:Softwareversie.
I could not reproduce the error on http://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export. Could not reproduce this error on http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export as well.
Anu: Which browser did you use, and which exact steps did you perform?
