[APBeta] Inability to download DSS images

[Paul Rodman]

On Dec 30, 2010, at 1:58 AM, Mingo Tardós wrote:

> Here is a simple workaround: I have changed the TEMP and TMP environment 
> variables to a new directory,  without accents in the path, and now I can 
> download images and user contributed plans without problems. 
> 
> Definitely, the problem in both cases was the accent.
> Are you also using decompression for the user contributed plans?

No, but I agree with your diagnosis. I've been trying to reproduce the problems with a small test app, but so far have been unable to do so. I have modified AP V2 with a workaround to avoid the "official" temporary location if the path is non-ASCII. This should resolve the problem (although you have taken another approach). The user-contributed plans do not use compression, but are downloaded to the temporary folder.

Paul R.

> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Paul Rodman <paul at ilanga.com> wrote:
> 
> On Dec 29, 2010, at 2:32 AM, Mingo Tardós wrote:
> 
> > I am one of these two users that have reported the problem. My computer has Windows XP SP3 in Spanish.
> > Just in case this helps, in the very same computer, the behaviour is:
> > - AP 2.0b98 image downloads give Decompression Error=1, except SDSS that work OK.
> > - AP 1.6.1 successfully downloads images from all the sources
> >
> > - AP 2.0b98 cannot download user contributed plans, but can upload and delete plans
> > - AP 1.6.1 successfully downloads user contributed plans
> >
> > Maybe both problems are related?
> >
> > Something that changes is a non-english system is the name of the default directories.
> > In my case, the temporary folder has an accent in the path, can this be a problem?
> 
> Yes, this is the problem, at least with the image decompression. I can reproduce it on Windows XP. This appears to be a limitation with the decompression plugin I'm using. I have contacted the vendor to see if it can be fixed. Meantime there is probably a workaround I can use to avoid this problem.
> 
> Paul R.
> 
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