I need beta testers

[Guspaz]

I've written a sort of file-upload service that is designed to be like http://www.putfile.com, but for text files (HTML/JS/CSS/TXT/etc).

I've even contacted the guy who runs PutFile, since we've communicated in the past via the ServerMatrix forums. The guy is interested in cross-promotion (He directs people to me as the text solution, I direct people to him as the media solution.

The problem is, before he'll start this up, I need to beta test! I need to make sure my site is relatively stable before hundreds of thousands of people start banging on it.

So please, take a look at the site (URL follows), bang on it, TRY to break it, use it, whatever! Just try to find things wrong so I can fix them

Here's the link: http://tekfile.net/

[confused!]

I ussgest checking to see if the file size is greater than 0 k.

i uploaded and empty textfile, which simply displays a google public service ad.

http://tekfile.net/file.php?id=30:d784

best file ever.

[Guspaz]

Nice catch, I thought I covered that situation :p

[Guspaz]

Hmm, I did...

It seems your file was not quite empty, but had a newline in it.

I'll look into filtering out stuff that only has whitespace.

[confused!]

ergh. foiled by vi.

i thought i told it not to save changes. oh well. white space culling isn't a bad idea.

[Guspaz]

Done, it now checks if the file is only whitespace and treats that as an empty file.

Find more bugs please!

[confused!]

you dont seem to be closing files which have been uploaded..
 after uploading a file i cannot rename it/ delete etc.



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[Guspaz]

That's beyond my control, I use the standard HTML forms for uploading. In other words, it's all the browser handling the upload.

I just specify a file upload form and the browser does the rest.

It actually looks something like this (With other HTML stripped out):

<form name='formText' enctype='multipart/form-data' method='post' action='index.php'>
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="262144">
<input type='file' name='textfile' size=30>
<input type='submit' name='SubmitText' value='Upload File'>

And yes, I did forget to close the form tag. Confused, you have a nack for making me discover OTHER bugs than what you report :p

[confused!]

to make it more fun, i can upload condumps, im not sure why.

i get the claim that in fact the document is not of type text.

edit: it seems to stem from teh following lines :

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Confused!-TSA has joined the game

Confused!-TSA has joined the game
RisingSun: Re.Re.Re.ReS WHORE
Confused!-TSA has joined the Kharaa
Type 'amx_help' in te console to see available commandsvaunted killed |GP|PsiRedEye22 with shotgun
Time Left: 2:57 min. Next Map: co_coreCyberPitz^Zephiris killed Tachyon with bitegun
vaunted killed CyberPitz^Zephiris with shotgun
`: FADE


[Guspaz]

to make it more fun, i can upload condumps, im not sure why.

i get the claim that in fact the document is not of type text.

edit: it seems to stem from teh following lines :

Code: [Select]


Confused!-TSA has joined the game

Confused!-TSA has joined the game
RisingSun: Re.Re.Re.ReS WHORE
Confused!-TSA has joined the Kharaa
Type 'amx_help' in te console to see available commandsvaunted killed |GP|PsiRedEye22 with shotgun
Time Left: 2:57 min. Next Map: co_coreCyberPitz^Zephiris killed Tachyon with bitegun
vaunted killed CyberPitz^Zephiris with shotgun
`: FADE


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What is the file extension? TekFile checks both the file extention, and the mime type (as reported by the "file" utility). It only accepts htm, html, css, js, and txt.

[confused!]

file extension is .txt

the character that doesnt display seems to be at fault;  if i remove them it seems to work fine.

[Guspaz]

Can you tar/zip/whatever it up and email it to me? (guspaz@gmail.com)

I'll need to run it through the pipeline and see what TekFile is coming up with internally. I might have to add an exception like support another MIME type, or stripping out that particular character.

[devicenull]

Very good, you checked for file size after it was uploaded

[confused!]

guspaz just copy the first two lines of the stuff i wrote above and paste it into a fresh text document.

if you need a sample condump: http://www.confusionville.net/condump015.txt

try that

[Guspaz]

Very good, you checked for file size after it was uploaded

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Yep, the HTML limit is only the first line of defence

[Guspaz]

Hmm, it is reported as an application/octet-stream...

Looks like my best bet is to filter out the chars in question.

[Guspaz]

They are ascii 1 and 2, which are "start of heading" and "start of text" respectively. Since they're non-printable chars, there is absolutely no problem filtering them out.

After filtering those two out, the file seems to upload fine:

http://tekfile.net/file.php?id=45:708a

I could filter out all non-printable chars, but I'm wary of the performance implications of doing that on stings up to 256KB in size. Also I wonder how exactly the "file" command determines what format the files are. If I filter out all non-printables, might it think everything is text?

Let me know if you have trouble with any other files.