Notepad Server Bugs and Gremlins

 

  1. File Not Found Errors
    This is the most common gremlin and is caused by omitting the trailing slash at the end of the default URL.
    Compare the output of these two URLs:
    http://vaughn.life.uiuc.edu/html
    Versus
    http://vaughn.life.uiuc.edu/html/

    You'll note that the file path for the notes is wrong and leads to a File Not Found error if you omit the trailing slash. To solve this until I get this bug nailed (it's amazingly insidious), always include the trailing slash in the path name.
    http://insert.your.ip.here/html/
  2. Server Crashes
    I have found that the server can crash when two people request the same document simultaneously or if people are impatient and stop/reload/stop/reload their connections. May be able to fix this but it's hard to instantiate 2 connections simultaneously by myself!
  3. Failure to RTFM
    This software is easy to use but has a complicated underpinning. If you don't have experience with NIE, or you've never made a web page before, or you don't have any idea what I mean when I say that the Newton has no file and directory structure, you may experience the RTFM bug. To remedy this, read the 'Read Me' that came with NIE, Notepad Server, nHTTPd, and maybe even your Newton before assuming this doesn't function correctly. This is a good practice to get into, anyway :-)

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