Last modified: 2012-12-11 11:01:47 UTC
I did an edit via the API, and had the API respond with the normal xml response, and the HTML version of the page was appended. I had the following post: format=xml&action=edit&title=Category:Book+of+Exodus+%28Bible+Illustrations+by+Sweet+Media%29&text={{en|1=Bible+illustrations+from+Category:Book+of+Exodus]]+[[Category:Media+contributed+by+the+Sweet+Publishing]]&summary=Creating+category+for+biblical+book+illustrations+[[Commons:Bots%2FRequests%2FOrophinBot+2]]&bot=1&token=3000331c2badee4aec034824cb9bb54d%2B">http:%2F%2Fwww%2Edsmedia%2Eorg%2Fresources%2Fillustrations%2Fsweet%2Dpublishing%2FExodus}}%D%A[[Category:Book+of+Exodus]]+[[Category:Media+contributed+by+the+Sweet+Publishing]]&summary=Creating+category+for+biblical+book+illustrations+[[Commons:Bots%2FRequests%2FOrophinBot+2]]&bot=1&token=3000331c2badee4aec034824cb9bb54d%2B\ And got the following reply: <?xml version="1.0"?><api><edit result="Success" pageid="18746270" title="Category:Book of Exodus (Bible Illustrations by Sweet Media)" nochange="" /></api><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="client-nojs" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Database error - Wikimedia Commons</title> ...... The response included the html page appended to the normal xml response.
I wonder if this is the same as bug 35300, only this one is coherent?
Created attachment 10258 [details] One borked response Request + Response (it's Fiddler's zip file)
Created attachment 10259 [details] Another borked response
In both of those, the html that is appended is an error page for a database lock timeout: from within function "SiteStatsUpdate::doUpdate". Database returned error "1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction (10.0.6.41)". (Fiddler files are just zip files with a particular file layout in the archive. Mime type on the attachments adjusted appropriately.)
Kind of reminds me of bug 33917.
