Re: RDi 9.0.1 - Help index corrupt? -- WDSCI-L

I do not use local help, too. I wonder why it is that difficult to get the
help working properly.

Further investigations of the problem showed, that the search request is
different from RDi, when using Firefox. When I use Firefox to start a
search from "http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iadthelp/v9/index.jsp";, the
search request (http GET) looks like this:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iadthelp/v9/advanced/searchView.jsp?searchWord=Using%20Arrays%20and%20Tables&maxHits=500

That is a little different from what is send by RDi:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com:80/infocenter/iadthelp/v9/search?phrase=%55%73%69%6e%67%20%41%72%72%61%79%73%20%61%6e%64%20%54%61%62%6c%65%73&lang=en

For better reading and comparing, the decoded URLs are:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iadthelp/v9/advanced/searchView.jsp?searchWord=Using%20Arrays%20and%20Tables&maxHits=500
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iadthelp/v9/search?phrase=Using%20Arrays%20and%20Tables&lang=en

The first one, send by Firefox returns the expected list of matching
links, whereas the second one returns HTTP ERROR 400, BAD_REQUEST.

When I change the failing URL to "
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iadthelp/v9/advanced/searchView.jsp?phrase=Using%20Arrays%20and%20Tables&lang=en
", I get a white page with the following text:

"To search the documentation, type a query in the Search field. The search
results will be shown in this view. "

Eventually I get the correct result, after I replace "phrase" with
"searchWord":

pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iadthelp/v9/advanced/searchView.jsp?searchWord=Using
Arrays and Tables&lang=en

So at the end that looks like a bug in the help system. Maybe that someone
forgot to update the URL for RDi 9.0?

On the other hand, the search URL did not change much over the time:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iadthelp/v7r0/advanced/searchView.jsp?searchWord=Using%20Arrays%20and%20Tables&maxHits=500
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter
/iadthelp/v8r0/advanced/searchView.jsp?searchWord=Using%20Arrays%20and%20Tables&maxHits=500&group=None
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter
/iadthelp/v8r5/advanced/searchView.jsp?searchWord=Using%20Arrays%20and%20Tables&maxHits=500&group=None

(inserted spaces to align the URLs at "/iadthelp/...")

So where does that URL come from:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iadthelp/v9/search?phrase=Using%20Arrays%20and%20Tables&lang=en

Thomas.

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb am 04.03.2014 23:55:30:

Von: vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
An: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
Datum: 04.03.2014 23:55
Betreff: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi 9.0.1 - Help index corrupt?
Gesendet von: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx

I don't know, Thomas - I had given up on some kind of setting for help -

now I have it always going out to that address, I think - and so far
it's behaving OK.

I don't have it doing update of the local help, however - I do it live
all the time.

We are also behind a proxy.

Vern

On 3/4/2014 4:31 PM, thomas.raddatz@xxxxxx wrote:

Vern,

I aleady checked that thread with no success. I do not have the
directories mentioned by Mike Hockings in his posting from 27.01.2014,
20:39h and I do not have these two "Help -> Content" pages mentioned

Edmung Reinhardt.

But at least your email reminded me to have a closer look at the

Eclipse

log file, where I found the following error entries:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.help.base 4 0 2014-03-04 23:02:18.785
!MESSAGE I/O error while trying to contact the remote help server
!STACK 0
java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 400 for URL:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com:80/infocenter/iadthelp/v9/search?phrase=%

64%75%6d%6d%79&lang=en

at
sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream

(HttpURLConnection.java:1625)

at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1038)
at
org.eclipse.help.internal.base.remote.RemoteSearchManager.search

(RemoteSearchManager.java:64)

at
org.eclipse.help.internal.search.SearchManager$SearchState$2.run

(SearchManager.java:69)

at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)

!ENTRY org.eclipse.help.base 4 0 2014-03-04 23:02:21.044
!MESSAGE I/O error while trying to contact the remote help server
!STACK 0
java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 400 for URL:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com:80/infocenter/iadthelp/v9/search?phrase=%

55%73%69%6e%67%20%41%72%72%61%79%73%20%61%6e%64%20%54%61%62%6c%65%73&lang=en

at
sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream

(HttpURLConnection.java:1625)

at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1038)
at
org.eclipse.help.internal.base.remote.RemoteSearchManager.search

(RemoteSearchManager.java:64)

at
org.eclipse.help.internal.search.SearchManager$SearchState$2.run

(SearchManager.java:69)

at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)

When I enter the URLs into Firefox, I get the following error message:

HTTP ERROR 400
Problem accessing /infocenter/iadthelp/v9/search. Reason:
BAD_REQUEST

Am I missing something?

Regards,

Thomas.

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb am 28.02.2014 18:23:33:

Von: vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
An: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
Datum: 28.02.2014 18:23
Betreff: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi 9.0.1 - Help index corrupt?
Gesendet von: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Go into the recent posts - there was an extensive thread on getting

help

to work better. This would have been between January 30 and February

or so.

On 2/28/2014 8:07 AM, Colson, Edmund B wrote:

I found the same thing in my setup. What is most disturbing is

that all the references that all the information has to do with Java
and nothing for RPG. Why's that?

Thank you!

Barry Colson | Sr. Programmer, Shared Services | Community Health

Systems

4000 Meridian Blvd | Franklin, TN 37067 | Tel: 615.628.6719 |

Fax: 615.465.3026 | http://www.chs.net

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