Deceptive error message

[Don Toro]

What I am saying is that a badly formatted host address should not report back as an registry corruption error. 

1) You can maybe check that the host address string is formatted incorrectly. So an address 192.168.0.1262 would be incorrect since the part after the last comma is four digits instead of three. But this could be hard to do since the string could be either an ip address or a dns name.

OR

2) At least report back error 1023:Connection timed out since the application cannot connect to a non-existent server.

Donard Toro
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan Smahin [mailto:ivan_smahin at valentina-db.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 2:46 PM
To: Valentina Developers
Subject: Re[2]: Deceptive error message


Hello Ruslan,

Thursday, March 9, 2006, 10:35:57 PM, you wrote:

> On 3/9/06 9:56 PM, "Don Toro" <don at thinkingpublications.com> wrote:

> Hi Don,

>> I was testing my app with V1 server after I did some changes to the directory
>> structure of the server folder when I started getting errors. I uninstall and
>> reinstalled Valentina server on my WinXP and I was still getting an error
>> message. On the windows machine I was getting an error 1022: Registry
>> Corrupted in mac I was getting an error 22. I had an hunch that the problem
>> was not with the server but with my app so I reverted to an older version and
>> it worked right away. After a little more work I found out I had written the
>> ip address wrong. I had written 192.168.0.1262 instead of 192.168.0.162. I
>> think the error in this case is deceptive. It should say something like
>> "Invalid host address". Now, I don't know how V2 server handles this parameter
>> but if it does the same than I think it should be fixed. I think it should be
>> easy to fix or am I wrong? Thanks.

> Thank you for report.

> Ivan, please drop this into Mantis, or on TODO list to check this point on
> V2

I'm afraid I don't get it.
Do you talk "easy to fix" about that 4 digits after the last point in the address?
(192.168.0.1262) meaning - it could be not more than 3 digit?



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 Ivan                            mailto:ivan_smahin at valentina-db.com

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