FP2000: Error Using Publish Web Command Copying Web Remotely
ID: Q205601
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The information in this article applies to:
SYMPTOMS
When you use the Publish Web command to copy an existing Web to a remote
Web site, you may receive one of the following error messages:
- An unexpected Web Extender error occurred on the server. Authors-
please contact the Webmaster for this server's site. WebMasters-
please see the server's logs for more details.
-or-
- Poorly formed http response.
To work around the limitations of the time-out period, use any of the
following methods:
- Get a faster modem. A 28.8 (28,800 bits per second [bps]) modem is
twice as fast as a 14.4 modem.
- Use sub-Webs instead of a root Web to avoid creating Webs whose
transfer speed exceeds the time-out period.
- Create the Web remotely, on your staging server, in order to avoid
having to transfer the Web.
- Use the FrontPage Publishing Wizard to transfer your Web, and then
recalculate the links on the Web when it reaches the server.
The FrontPage Publishing Wizard initiates an FTP session to your
server and automates the transfer of FrontPage Webs using FTP. FTP
is not subject to the same time-out limitations as HTTP and can
often move data more reliably. In addition, the Publishing Wizard
allows you to transfer only the files that have been changed since
the last post, which results in less data being transferred. The FrontPage Publishing Wizard can be set to transfer all files or some
files in the Web.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
When you use the Publish Web command to connect the FrontPage client to a
server, the Web Server will create a process to serve that request.
Once the client's account is validated, the client will use HyperText
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to communicate with Author.exe on your server.
Author.exe works as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) script within the
process generated by the Web server.
Web servers enforce a time-out period on any process in order to
protect the server from being overloaded. On most servers, this time-
out period varies. When the connection speed between the client and
the server is slow and the size of the Web to be transferred is large,
the server may stop serving FrontPage before the transfer is complete.
The following formula is used to calculate the time-out period:
Seconds to transfer = Web size/modem speed
where "Web size" is the total bits of data that makes up the Web and "modem
speed" is the speed, in bits per second (bps), that the modem uses to
transfer data. (For example, 14,400 bps or 28,800 bps.)
(Web in K * 1024) * (8{Bits} + 4{bits overhead}) = (Web in K * 12288)
The following is a sample table showing transfer times in seconds.
File Size
500K 1000K 5000K 10000K 20000K
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14,400 bps 427 854 4267 8534 17067
28,800 bps 214 427 2134 4267 8534
NOTE: When you calculate the size of the Web, you must include data in
all folders in the Web to be copied, not just the static HTML files.
Note that connection speeds are frequently slower than the maximum speed of the modem.
Additional query words:
pubwiz directory directories timeout publish postweb11a.exe 2000RTMPublic
Keywords : fpexp
Version : WINDOWS:
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug