Comment 10 for bug 255292

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domachine (dominik-burgdoerfer) wrote : Re: [Bug 255292] Re: MemoryError/OverflowError in _read_info_file during branch unlock when pushing over SFTP

On Wednesday 13 August 2008 01:39:32 you wrote:
> Separately I recently discovered that OpenSSH's SFTP client will tend to
> give error messages like "received message too long 1397966893" when the
> data read isn't actually from an SFTP server.
>
> This makes me wonder if something other than SFTP data is getting
> written to that channel (or whatever the SSH protocol jargon is). Non-
> SFTP data would tend to trigger this sort of error (i.e. packets with
> impossibly huge length prefixes).
>
> It would help to know what the offending int actually is. In the
> "received message too long 1397966893" error I saw elsewhere, it turns
> out that 1397966893 is what you get if you treat the ascii string "SSH-"
> as a 4-byte int. If we knew what ints were causing the
> MemoryError/OverflowErrors for this bug, it might be a very helpful
> clue.

Ahm sorry I don't really understand. You wanna have the files uploaded by me
to the server? Or do you want the size of them? Sorry about my weak english
but I'm from Germany. I'm looking forward to help you.

Dominik