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Message-ID: <20141002232857.GA2748@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 03:28:57 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Having trouble uploading to the wiki

Robert,

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 06:49:49PM -0400, Robert Harris wrote:
> John-the-Ripper-v1.8.0.2-bleeding-jumbo-2014-09-28-Win-x32.rar (35,319,710
> bytes)
> John-the-Ripper-v1.8.0.2-bleeding-jumbo-2014-09-28-Win-x64.rar (35,671,904
> bytes)

Thank you for making and sharing those builds!

(I think the actual filenames you uploaded are all-lowercase, though.)

> But, I don't think that is as a popular for as zip.  Oh, well I hope no one
> that needs it has issues with that format.

I hope so too.  I think RAR is much more common than ZIPX that you
almost used.  (I also think it would have been better for you to exclude
the non-essential *.chr files - not all of them, but just the extra
ones, same ones that I exclude from the main 1.8.0 tarball - and use
classic ZIP, then.  But this does not matter now.  Maybe next time.)

> I still think the size limit needs to be raised.

I disagree.  It's a good thing to keep uploads sane.  Also, maybe you
were bumping into a timeout rather than into a size limit.  You never
replied to my question on just how slow the uploads were for you.
I think the timeout is at 5 minutes now.  Is it possible you were
hitting 5 minutes with these?  (Yes, that would be surprisingly slow.)

> So, I updated the custom builds wiki page to show the .rar links.  But for
> some reason they don't work.  I'll keep working on it, but if anyone has an
> idea, that would be nice.

I notice you've since corrected this.

While you're at it, maybe you can correct some other broken file links
on that wiki page?  These appear in red right now:

john-1.7.7-jumbo-6-rs904c (2.6 MB)
john-1.7.8-3jumbo5.el6.x86_64.rpm (64-bit)
john-1.7.7-jumbo-6-rs904c (32-bit) (2.5 MB) 
john-1.7.7-jumbo-6-rs904c (64-bit) (2.6 MB)

I guess the DokuWiki update (documented in here before) might have
broken them, requiring a stricter wiki markup syntax or something.

For others reading this, we're talking about:

http://openwall.info/wiki/john/custom-builds

Thanks again,

Alexander

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