Random "Status read failed: Connection reset by peer" errors while using the API on Wikisource
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	erelsgl
	Jan 20 2015, 5:58 AM

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I am using the API for automatically making updates to the Hebrew Wikisource site (using perl with LWP::UserAgent). In the last two weeks, I keep getting random errors with the status "read failed: Connection reset by peer".

The errors appear in various steps of the process: sometimes they appear on the first login phase, sometimes this phase succeeds but the second login phase fails, sometimes I get this error while trying to fetch a csrf token from this url: "http://he.wikisource.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&continue=&format=xml", etc.

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erelsgl created this task.Jan 20 2015, 5:58 AM

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@erelsgl: Can you please provide a self-contained test case?

Aklapper triaged this task as Low priority.Jan 20 2015, 8:48 PM

This seems unlikely to be due to the MediaWiki API. If it's anything on the WMF side of the Internet connection, it's probably more of an operations issue.

@Anomie this makes sense. Where should I report this bug then?

Same problem occur to me

@Aklapper Here is a minimal working example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use LWP::Simple;

my $api_url = "http://he.wikisource.org/w/api.php";
my $username="[your-wikisource-username]"
my $password="[your-wikisource-password]"

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$browser->cookie_jar( {} );
push @{$browser->requests_redirectable}, 'POST';

my @ns_headers = (
	'User-Agent' => "$username from Perl",
	'Accept' => 'image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */*',
	'Accept-Charset' => 'iso-8859-1,*,utf-8',
	'Accept-Language' => 'en-US',
);

my $response=$browser->post(
	$api_url,
	@ns_headers, 
	Content=>[
		action=>'login',
		lgname=>$username,
		lgpassword=>$password,
		format=>'xml']
	);

if ($response->content =~ m|<login[^<>]*result="NeedToken"[^<>]*token="([^\"]+)"[^<>]*/>|) {
	my $token = $1;
	print "success in first login phase. Token = $token\n";
} else {
	print "Error in first login phase:\n";
	print substr($response->content,0,1000);
	return 0;
}

__END__

This is what I get in repeated activations of this script:

erelsgl@erelsgl-H61MLC:~/git/erel-sites/wiki$ perl testwiki.pl 
success in first login phase. Token = c4282c0e47c858ddea476daba79158d3
erelsgl@erelsgl-H61MLC:~/git/erel-sites/wiki$ 
erelsgl@erelsgl-H61MLC:~/git/erel-sites/wiki$ perl testwiki.pl 
success in first login phase. Token = 0d4028c0a8897aaeb89b12660e57c9fd
erelsgl@erelsgl-H61MLC:~/git/erel-sites/wiki$ perl testwiki.pl 
success in first login phase. Token = e13a0bc63beb6aee3298bd88a3b2046f
erelsgl@erelsgl-H61MLC:~/git/erel-sites/wiki$ perl testwiki.pl 
Error in first login phase:
Status read failed: Connection reset by peer at /home/erelsgl/perl5/lib/perl5/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 269.
Can't return outside a subroutine at testwiki.pl line 43.
erelsgl@erelsgl-H61MLC:~/git/erel-sites/wiki$ perl testwiki.pl 
success in first login phase. Token = 8d2b728b1e0ab6114e3ebd15e7587714
erelsgl@erelsgl-H61MLC:~/git/erel-sites/wiki$ perl testwiki.pl 
Error in first login phase:
Status read failed: Connection reset by peer at /home/erelsgl/perl5/lib/perl5/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 269.
Can't return outside a subroutine at testwiki.pl line 43.
erelsgl@erelsgl-H61MLC:~/git/erel-sites/wiki$ perl testwiki.pl 
success in first login phase. Token = d6d91a88e6b9c13bc7fb62ab1b90754d
erelsgl@erelsgl-H61MLC:~/git/erel-sites/wiki$ perl testwiki.pl 
Error in first login phase:
Status read failed: Connection reset by peer at /home/erelsgl/perl5/lib/perl5/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 269.
Can't return outside a subroutine at testwiki.pl line 43.
erelsgl@erelsgl-H61MLC:~/git/erel-sites/wiki$

As you can see, the error occurs at random in about 50% of the cases.

I now checked and this bug appears also in English Wikipedia (changing the API URL to $api_url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php").

As I wrote in your thread on en.wp's VP, I'd be interested to know whether that also happens when using a different internet connection/provider.

@Aklapper
From a different ISP, everything works OK. So this is indeed a problem of the ISP.

Thanks for testing! Closing this task as "invalid" as there is nothing that can be fixed server-side by Wikimedia, but depends on the ISP of the user.

Aklapper removed a subscriber: Anomie.Oct 16 2020, 5:29 PM

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