= Description =

Upon saving a page, you sometimes get a traceback with a "Protocol``Error", presumably raised while talking to moinmaster.wikiwikiweb.de:8000 over XMLRPC. If this happens, the changes to the page are not saved.

== Steps to reproduce ==

This is difficult to reproduce because it only seems to occur when there are problems with wikiwikiweb.de. Whenever I got the bug, I also had problems accessing moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de (either a Twisted error: too many open files or the CSS would not download, giving the typical corrupted Wiki appearance).

I guess this could be reproduced by temporarily changing the URI in line 95 of `util/antispam.py` from
{{{            uri = "http://moinmaster.wikiwikiweb.de:8000/?action=xmlrpc2"
}}}
to some fake XMLRPC server that behaves badly.

== Example ==

Here are two example tracebacks:

 * [[attachment:traceback1.html]]
 * [[attachment:traceback2.html]].

== Details ==

|| '''!MoinMoin Version''' || moin 1.3.4 ||
|| '''OS and Version''' || Debian Linux Sarge (Intel x86 platform) ||
|| '''Python Version''' || Python 2.4.1 ||
|| '''Server Setup''' || Apache 1.3.33 using FastCGI ||
|| '''Server Details''' || nothing special ||


== Workaround ==

Deactivate spam protection in the Wiki config or patch line 126 of `MoinMoin/util/antispam.py` from
{{{            except (timeoutsocket.Timeout, timeoutsocket.error), err:
}}}
to
{{{            except (timeoutsocket.Timeout, timeoutsocket.error,
                   xmlrpclib.ProtocolError), err:
}}} (not seriously tested).


= Discussion =


= Plan =
## This part is for Moin``Moin developers:

 * Priority: 
 * Assigned to: ThomasWaldmann
 * Status: fixed (applied patch) in arch, patch-809

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## When the bug is fixed, replace the category to Category MoinMoinBugFixed
## If this is not a bug, replace with Category MoinMoinNoBug
CategoryMoinMoinBugFixed