Bug: Include with http://127.0.0.1 is very slow

Including an http address using (for example, %INCLUE{"http:/127.0.0.1/"}%) makes a topic very slow (20-30 secs) to be rendered. However previewing the topic does not suffer this penalty and renders correctly. I have searched around and found other (similar) reports: IncludeUrlIsSuperSlow, IncludeHTMLTakesLongTime. I even applied the patch mentioned in ProxiedIncludesBrokenImplementationBug, but the problem remains.

Another, may be unrelated, symptom is that every time an "http:" include is rendered within a topic the folowing entry in the web server error log:

Socket.pm: Argument "127.0.0.1" isn't numeric in subroutine entry at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/Socket.pm line 442.

Preview also shows a similar entry in the log, but does not take any appreciable time to render:

preview: Argument "127.0.0.1" isn't numeric in subroutine entry at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/Socket.pm line 442.

Test case

%INCLUDE{"http://127.0.0.1/"}%

Environment

-- RodrigoChandia - 19 Nov 2003

Follow up

Clarified the description. It seems that my english is getting somewhat rusty

-- RodrigoChandia - 20 Nov 2003

Fix record

This has been fixed with the ProxiedIncludesBrokenImplementationBug fix.

Use the latest TWikiAlphaRelease, or apply these changes to your twiki/lib/TWiki/Net.pm file:

*** ../../b/lib/TWiki/Net.pm    2003-01-04 17:36:11.000000000 -0800
--- TWiki/Net.pm        2003-09-28 18:12:57.000000000 -0700
***************
*** 53,59 ****
      my $base64;
      my $result = '';
      $theUrl = "/" unless( $theUrl );
!     my $req = "GET $theUrl HTTP/1.1\r\n";

      # RNF 22 Jan 2002 Support for vhosts and user authentication.
      $req .= "Host: $theHost\r\n";
--- 53,59 ----
      my $base64;
      my $result = '';
      $theUrl = "/" unless( $theUrl );
!     my $req = "GET $theUrl HTTP/1.0\r\n";

      # RNF 22 Jan 2002 Support for vhosts and user authentication.
      $req .= "Host: $theHost\r\n";
***************
*** 70,75 ****
--- 70,76 ----
      my $proxyHost = &TWiki::Prefs::getPreferencesValue("PROXYHOST");
      my $proxyPort = &TWiki::Prefs::getPreferencesValue("PROXYPORT");
      if($proxyHost && $proxyPort) {
+         $req = "GET http://$theHost$theUrl HTTP/1.0\r\n";
          $theHost = $proxyHost;
          $thePort = $proxyPort;
      }

This fix will solve the slow URL connection problem and the proxy problem.

However, at work I do get the same Socket error messages since I applied this fix. The page gets included correctly but there are these error log messages.

For now I leave this bug open. Anyone has time to look into the error log issue?

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Nov 2003

Yes, I tried the patch but it only fixed 'preview'. Apparently, it is related with mod_perl since I had mod_perl active for 'view' only. I removed mod_perl and the includes got fast again.

Now the question would be why the messages and why the difference between using and not using mod_perl.

(I have opened this as a support question in Support.IncludeHttpIsVerySlow too... I apologise for making the more confusing. I will not do it again)

-- RodrigoChandia - 21 Nov 2003