first of all: sorry for the outage of antville.org between 0:15 and 1:00. i had to do alot of maintenance tonight, and it wasn't possible without switching antville off. here's what i did:

• switched to apache 1.3.26 (compiled from sources), restructured apache-config. the home-directory of apache has changed too (and more important: the config is not anymore where it used to be on suse-systems)
• compiled and installed mod_jk 1.2 from sources (for some hidden reasons apache was pretty unwilling to start with the precompiled binary ...)
• cleaned and optimized accesslog-table in database
• switched to helma-snapshot compiled on 20021120

and btw.: anybody knows why the f*** j2sdk1.4.1 needs a hidden directory /etc/.java/? obviously it leads to timeouts in image-upload if this directory is not existing (thanks kris for your report, but you deleted your story before i was able to comment ;-)

so now for the more interesting things: due to the switch to a new helma-version the following problems are solved:

1. there are no problems anymore with spaces encoded as '+' in urls.
2. since hns changed the gif-encoder used in helma (big thanks!) the problems with uploading gifs (some of them would throw a lengthy error) are gone too.

if any of the above problems still occur please report them here.

heute fiel mir auf, dass ich mich bei jedem zugriff auf mein blog (insbes. stories) neu einloggen musste. hat das mit der oben angesprochenen operation zu tun oder könnte das ein lokales problem bei mir sein?

danke schon mal im voraus.

i was able to upload one image last night, but every other attempt timed out.

Help, I lost the images of the header...

1. there are no problems anymore with spaces encoded as '+' in urls.

Does it mean <% story.topic %> will work properly? It didn't work before if the topic name had a space inside.