Communication problem between iTouch and Calibre on PC

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by gandor62

Test Server still would not list any books.

I see. But that is different. What you click "test server" you are opening the calibre server web page on your PC in your default browser. Kovid has already said that this will not work with IE... you must browse the calibre server with FireFox or Chrome.

However, when you hit the server with your iPod it doesn't matter what browser is your default on your PC. You iPod should work either way. Can you test that and confirm that it doesn't make a difference?

BOb

[volwrath]

I have the same error on the touch and on MSIE 7 I did notice a javascript error on the lower left when running on IE however. The error is as follows:

Line: 12
Char: 1
Error: Expected Identifier, string, or number
Code: 0
URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080

It works fine for me on firefox and doesn't work on MSIE. It also shows up on mobile safari on the touch.

I do notice that if I preview the http://local:8080/stanza feed in firefox, the feed is empty whereas I would think it should be populated with the books that showup while viewing http://local:8080

I will say this however: Stanza desktop works just fine to copy over books on the PC side

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by volwrath

I will say this however: Stanza desktop works just fine to copy over books on the PC side

That's the easy way out!

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by volwrath

I have the same error on the touch and on MSIE 7 I did notice a javascript error on the lower left when running on IE however. The error is as follows:

Line: 12
Char: 1
Error: Expected Identifier, string, or number
Code: 0
URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080

It works fine for me on firefox and doesn't work on MSIE. It also shows up on mobile safari on the touch.

I do notice that if I preview the http://local:8080/stanza feed in firefox, the feed is empty whereas I would think it should be populated with the books that showup while viewing http://local:8080

I will say this however: Stanza desktop works just fine to copy over books on the PC side

Open http://local:8080/stanza in firefox then from the calibre config dialog, post the server logs

[volwrath]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Open http://local:8080/stanza in firefox then from the calibre config dialog, post the server logs

Interesting enough if I do the local:8080/stanza there are no server logs (much like there is no data, except for the words calibre library). If I do local:8080 I get :

127.0.0.1 - - [04/Jan/2009:19:12:04] "GET /stanza HTTP/1.1" 200 317 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5"
127.0.0.1 - - [04/Jan/2009:19:12:04] "GET /stanza HTTP/1.1" 200 317 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5"

and it works fine

[kovidgoyal]

Probably just a log flushing issue. Shutdown the calibre GUI and run the following in a terminal instead

calibre-server --develop

Then try the URLs in firefox

[volwrath]

OK I get this: The two timestamps 19:36 are for local:8080/stanza
The time stamps of 19:37 are for the local:8080

127.0.0.1 - - [04/Jan/2009:19:36:11] "GET /stanza HTTP/1.1" 200 317 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5"
127.0.0.1 - - [04/Jan/2009:19:36:11] "GET /stanza HTTP/1.1" 200 317 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5"
127.0.0.1 - - [04/Jan/2009:19:37:07] "GET /library?_=1231119427203&start=0&num=20&sort=date&o rder=descending HTTP/1.1" 200 1296 "http://127.0.0.1:8080/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5"
127.0.0.1 - - [04/Jan/2009:19:37:07] "GET /library?_=1231119427203&start=0&num=20&sort=date&o rder=descending HTTP/1.1" 200 1296 "http://127.0.0.1:8080/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5"

[kovidgoyal]

Hmm well nothing useful in the logs, I'll have to debug this in a windows machine myself, when I get the chance.

[starrigger]

New data point:

Success! That is, I tried connecting to Calibre on a different PC on the home network. And on this one, it worked like a charm. No problem at all. We can see the whole book list from the iTouch, and a trial download was a cinch.

So what's different? The configurations on both machines are identical, to the best of my knowledge, except for two things:

Sagittarius, which did not work, is a laptop with a wireless connection to the network. It is also XP Pro.

Orion, which did work, is a desktop with an ethernet connection to the network, and it runs XP Home.

Other than that, any differences are entirely accidental. Same antivirus, same firewall, same Calibre config.

I don't know if that helps in the debugging effort, but at least it has things working in our home.

[starrigger]

Originally Posted by starrigger

I tried connecting to Calibre on a different PC on the home network. And on this one, it worked like a charm. No problem at all. We can see the whole book list from the iTouch, and a trial download was a cinch.

So what's different? The configurations on both machines are identical, to the best of my knowledge, except for two things:

Sagittarius, which did not work, is a laptop with a wireless connection to the network. It is also XP Pro.

Orion, which did work, is a desktop with an ethernet connection to the network, and it runs XP Home.

Other than that, any differences are entirely accidental. Same antivirus, same firewall, same Calibre config.

Just for completeness, I tried one last time accessing the laptop from Stanza on the Touch, this time connecting the laptop to the network by ethernet--that being the most obvious difference between the laptop and the desktop (on which the connection functions as advertised).

Still doesn't work. So there's some mysterious difference between the two. I'm going to stop fussing and just let my wife download from the second machine. (And Kovid has closed the case on his end.) But for anyone who still struggles with this, the lesson might be: try Calibre on a different computer on your home network.