I\'ve been getting lots of http errors, I kind have been ignoring them as I thought it was my system, but I found out a possible cause (as reported a similar issue on the developers project list).

Bad source code by the developers, actually a typo.

you need to remove the \"space\" before </scheduler>

<!--<scheduler>http://www.ps3grid.net/PS3GRID_cgi/cgi </scheduler> -->

additioanlly your project is missing a link line

if you have this in the home page:

<!--
\";
include \'schedulers.txt\';
echo \"
-->
\";

change it to:

\";
include \'schedulers.txt\';
echo \"

then in schedulers.txt

<!-- <scheduler>http://www.ps3grid.net/PS3GRID_cgi/cgi</scheduler> -->
<link rel=\"boinc_scheduler\" href=\"http://www.ps3grid.net/PS3GRID_cgi/cgi\">

the link element is outside the comment.

The reason is some ISP\'s filter comments, thus thus participants client\'s can not contact the scheduler. They have both for compatibility with older clients.
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I still get constantly during uploads http errors, and then there is a long delay before the next attempt. Eventually the files get uploaded in about 13-24 attempts.

two questions:

#1 Does anybody else see these errors or is it just me ?

My satellite connection is great at downloads, like dsl speed, but poor at uploads, like dial up. and with 5-6 computers sharing the connection uploads are not so good sometimes.

#2 is there any way to compress the upload files or are they already compressed ?
The 23,000 KiB and 23,000 KiB are the ones giving me problems.

All my other computers on other boinc projects don\'t usually have problems, but the files are not quite as big, sometimes they take longer to upload, but without the http error ?

Log:
7/4/2007 6:45:33 PM Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
7/4/2007 6:45:28 PM Backing off 3 hr 13 min 13 sec on upload of file NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_0
7/4/2007 6:45:28 PM [file_xfer] Temporarily failed upload of NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_0: http error
7/4/2007 6:45:28 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
7/4/2007 6:39:22 PM [file_xfer] Started upload of file NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_0
7/4/2007 6:08:54 PM Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
7/4/2007 6:08:46 PM Backing off 2 hr 25 min 11 sec on upload of file NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_0
7/4/2007 6:08:46 PM [file_xfer] Temporarily failed upload of NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_0: http error
7/4/2007 6:08:46 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
7/4/2007 6:02:11 PM [file_xfer] Started upload of file NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_0
7/4/2007 5:56:38 PM Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
7/4/2007 5:56:32 PM Backing off 1 hr 49 min 12 sec on upload of file NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_4
7/4/2007 5:56:32 PM [file_xfer] Temporarily failed upload of NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_4: http error
7/4/2007 5:56:32 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
7/4/2007 5:50:22 PM [file_xfer] Started upload of file NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_4
7/4/2007 5:50:15 PM Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
7/4/2007 5:50:08 PM Backing off 1 hr 22 min 36 sec on upload of file NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_0
7/4/2007 5:50:08 PM [file_xfer] Temporarily failed upload of NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_0: http error
7/4/2007 5:50:08 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
7/4/2007 5:42:24 PM [file_xfer] Started upload of file NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_0
7/4/2007 5:38:50 PM Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
7/4/2007 5:38:42 PM Backing off 3 min 39 sec on upload of file NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_0
7/4/2007 5:38:42 PM [file_xfer] Temporarily failed upload of NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_0: http error
7/4/2007 5:38:42 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
7/4/2007 5:22:28 PM [file_xfer] Temporarily failed upload of NQ16754-RUNCF-nodelete_0_0: http error

However, if you had this problem yesterday then the reason is that the server was down for several hours.

I turned on http_debug flag.

This appears to be a timeout error, when other projects on my connection upload, this interrupts PS3GRID\'s upload and it times out.

I emailed a copy of log to Gianni.

I\'m still trying things on my end, no success yet.

I did set the PS3 client to only make 1 transfer at a time.

I tried setting http_1_0 which seemed to be better, but the files that uploaded early this morning still show a timeout during one transfer.

I was able to get 2 results from alpha test, 1 each per windowsXP computers, which is a 4,700KiB file to upload simultaneously and when a 3rd computer uploaded a small result for another project, there was not an interruption shown, they kept on transmitting. These are client version 5.10.13.

It keeps going back to a PS3 boinc client (or YDL on PS3) to PS3GRID issue.

The hard part in testing this is I cannot connect other computers to PS3GRID, nor can I connect boinc on PS3 to other projects as no other projects yet have officially supported applications. And waiting 22 hours between each test.

Thanks for the fixes.

This might have helped, I\'m not sure if my problem is solved yet.

I did get 60% of the 23,000 KiB file to go through at about 12.19KiBps until another host downloaded a task (10sec) and then uploaded a result (10sec) but the PS3 did not resume communications, the timeout was reached after 300sec.

Then the 3 smaller files (600, 600 and 0.04 KiB)went through OK.

Then an attempt on the 10,000 KiB file, it got about 1/2 done before another interruption from a diownload and upload.

After it restarted again I browsed here, which interrupted it too.

I can watch my modem and when this happens the transmit/receive lights will go off. So I know that the PS3 is not attempting communication, it (boinc ?) is just waiting for the timeout. This to me seems like a boinc thing.

While writing this message the 10,000 KiB file finished.

Then the 23,000 file resumed. if got about 1,800 more sent when other computer uploaded a result (40 sec), but this time it kept going and is still going....

6,999 KiB sent, only a little to go...

and then the other computer downloaded (10sec) from a different project this time,

but the PS3 finished.

So there were about 4 other possible interruptions, 2 did and 2 did not.
There were a lot of just scheduler requests from 2 other computers to several other projects and those seemed to have no effect. Email should have checked a couple of times during this and I think that was mostly no effect.

So I\'m a little confused <scratches head> if it is fixed or not.

Will have to wait for the next result to complete (about 16 hours).

It does seem to be better than it was.

With the change in my internet connection from Satellite to DSL my problem has gone away.

Last result uploaded without interruption or error. :)

The PS3 sent 2 files at the same time,

The 13,000KiB file took 7-8 minutes once it got started and the 23,000KiB file took about 12 minutes, but that was while the other files were uploading and downloading at the same time and I was browsing the internet on another computer.

So problem solved.