Uploader file types

[Eli Cochran]

Aaron, please send me the file. I have a Mac and I can probably get to  
the bottom of it pretty quickly.

Thanks,
Eli

On Apr 27, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Aaron Brown wrote:

> Eli Cochran wrote:
>> Fascinating. Great catch. I'll check it out on Monday.
>> Curious about the .zip thing though. I would be surprised but it's  
>> very easy to check.
>
> I now have a file that cannot be uploaded from Mac/Safari.  I  
> haven't yet tested any other browser since I don't own a Mac myself,  
> so I'm begging borrowed time from co-workers to do my debugging.  If  
> you'd like a copy of the file, I'll happily send it to you.
>
> My initial suspicion:  The culprit is the data/resource forking on  
> the file confusing the SWFupload widget into thinking there is no  
> file there.  If I'm right, there are several implications:
>
> 1) The problem is only testable on a Macintosh since the error is  
> related to the OS's file system.  Working with the same file on any  
> other platform produces a different result.
>
> 2) The problem lies in SWFupload, not in Infusion.
>
> 3) As a result of (2), you can't fix it, you can only hope that it  
> gets fixed.
>
> At this point it's only a hunch that this is the cause, and I'd like  
> to be wrong here since the outcome wouldn't be pretty.  The file I  
> have is actually a .zip file, created on Mac OS X, containing a  
> single file - a font file - and that internal file, once  
> uncompressed from the .zip, cannot be uploaded.
>
> When I unzip the file in Linux, I see typical Mac forked file  
> output: a file with the right filename, but a size of zero, plus a  
> MACOSX directory within which is a file that is actually the file I  
> want. (see terminal output below)
>
> When I try to upload the file using the Uploader on Mac/Safari, I  
> can Browse, pick the file from the list (I'm choosing the font file,  
> not the .zip file), and click OK.  When the file chooser disappears,  
> I see an empty file queue, as if I hadn't picked a file, after all.   
> I cannot click Upload - there isn't anything in the queue.
>
> So I should clarify a bit: The real problem is that I cannot add  
> this file to the queue.  Uploading is a moot point, since I can't  
> get that far.
>
> These experiences lead me to believe that the flash widget is  
> looking at the file in a not-native-MacOSX way, so it sees the null- 
> length file and not the actual data fork.  When it sees that I've  
> selected an empty file, it won't let me add it to the list.  Hence  
> my suspicions that I outlined above.  I can at least confirm that  
> the file picker/queue behaves the same way on my Linux system when I  
> choose to upload the zero-length file created from the .zip. (again,  
> see below)
>
> As I said, I'll be happy to email a copy of this .zip file to anyone  
> who wants to take a stab at debugging.  I'll keep testing on my end  
> so far as I'm able.  I couldn't find any reference to this problem  
> by googling for it re: SWFupload, but someone else may have better  
> luck there.
>
> Here's the terminal output I promised earlier:
>
> $ unzip Monotype\ Sorts.zip
> Archive:  Monotype Sorts.zip
> extracting: Monotype Sorts
>   creating: __MACOSX/
>  inflating: __MACOSX/._Monotype Sorts
>
> $ ls -al
> total 72
> drwxr-xr-x  3 brown brown  4096 2009-04-27 21:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x 10 brown brown  4096 2009-04-27 21:35 ..
> drwxrwxr-x  2 brown brown  4096 2009-04-27 10:48 __MACOSX
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 brown brown     0 2003-09-23 11:58 Monotype Sorts
> -rw-r--r--  1 brown brown 53739 2009-04-27 21:35 Monotype Sorts.zip
>
> - Aaron
>
> P.S. Forking Mac OS X file system.  Fork.
>
> -- 
> Aaron Brown :: aaron at thebrownproject.com :: www.thebrownproject.com

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Eli Cochran
user interaction developer
ETS, UC Berkeley