PGD Annual 2009 - Competition site questions/comments

[AthenaOfDelphi]

Won't accept mine xD tried winrar and 7zip; neither produced a zip your site liked. Tried with the filename containing underscores and without underscores. Filesize is 400kb; quite a bit less than the 24mb limit.

(Tried both lowercase and uppercase extension (zip) just to be sure too)

And it looks to me that zip is allowed

Ok, the system picks up the mime type of the file. It could be that Winrar and 7zip generate slightly different mime signatures. I'll look into adding some error reporting where the mime type is wrong so that it includes the mime type it received in the error. That way I can add the additional mime types that may be generated.

Please subscribe to this thread, and I'll post when I've made the changes to the upload routine. Then you can try again. Capture the error message and send it to me so I can add the missing mime types.

[AthenaOfDelphi]

I have added reporting of the mime type to the error message. When you attempt to upload an archive, if it fails with 'is not a valid/acceptable archive format' messsage, make a note of the exact reported mime type. And send me a mail (instructions in the 'Bugs' seciton of the competition site), I'll review the problem and if a fix is needed, I'll get it sorted.

As a consequence of testing this, I'm about to add the WinRAR mime type application/x-rar to the list.

[noeska]

You may get a daytime job on these mime types. A bug report is on its way...

[Legolas]

No way to upload my design document. I have zipped it with both 7zip (as zip archive) and windows "send to compressed folder", rar-ed with rar.exe and tar.gz-ed. These are the MIME types reported:

Reported MIME type - application/x-zip
Reported MIME type - application/gzip
Reported MIME type - application/rar


EDIT: Dunno why, but I have tried with IE instead of ffox and it worked.

[pstudio]

Ok,
I think I've uploaded my gdd. I used 7zip and didn't get any warnings but a "Upload succeded" message.

[AthenaOfDelphi]

No way to upload my design document. I have zipped it with both 7zip (as zip archive) and windows "send to compressed folder", rar-ed with rar.exe and tar.gz-ed. These are the MIME types reported:

Reported MIME type - application/x-zip
Reported MIME type - application/gzip
Reported MIME type - application/rar


EDIT: Dunno why, but I have tried with IE instead of ffox and it worked.

The three mime types you reported weren't in the acceptable list. Now they are :-)

There are a plethora of different mime types being reported for the same file type, so I would suggest that everyone who hasn't already done so tries uploading their zipped up design. If you leave it until 5 minutes before the deadline, then you may not be able to upload it.

On this subject, Google Chrome appears to think it's better off not reporting the mime type it's upload. Quite why that should be, I don't know. So try an alternative browser if you experience problems.

On the subject of whether your upload was successful, there is now a section at the bottom of the competition page which lists your stage uploads. You can check there whether your file was uploaded correctly.

[paul_nicholls]

Great job Christina
cheers,
Paul

[noeska]

Yes now it works...

But you only get a message once that your archive is uploaded with succes. On a next visit there is no evidence that you already have uploaded an archived design document.
Some feedback on that would be nice...

[pstudio]

Yes now it works...

But you only get a message once that your archive is uploaded with succes. On a next visit there is no evidence that you already have uploaded an archived design document.
Some feedback on that would be nice...

On the subject of whether your upload was successful, there is now a section at the bottom of the competition page which lists your stage uploads. You can check there whether your file was uploaded correctly.

[chronozphere]

A have a little question:

I see a "Withdraw from competition" link on the competition page. Does it ask for confirmation? Would be a shame if someone accidently clicked it.

And no, I don't feel like trying myself.