Server seems to crash when citoid=true and Citoid fails (and one template available)
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	diegodlh
	Sep 27 2023, 3:53 PM

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Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

Find a URL for which Citoid is failing, for example https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4g2/galbraith-alexander (thanks @DrThneed!)
Configure a translation template and confirm that Web2Cit is returning a citation: https://web2cit.toolforge.org/https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4g2/galbraith-alexander
Ask the translation server to return a response with the citoid option set to true (this is what Web2Cit-Gadget does to get both Citoid and Web2Cit citations): https://web2cit.toolforge.org/translate?citoid=true&url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4g2/galbraith-alexander

What happens?:

I get a Toolforge 404 error page saying "The URL you have requested, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4g2/galbraith-alexander, doesn't seem to actually exist."

Then, the server seems to crash, returning 503 Service Unavailable errors for a few minutes.

What should have happened instead?:

The server should have returned a list of citations, including just the Web2Cit citation.

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Make sure this list of citations including just the Web2Cit citation is properly handled by Web2Cit-Gadget.

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Mentioned In: T317448: Consider returning a result even if the fallback template does not apply

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diegodlh triaged this task as High priority.Sep 27 2023, 3:53 PM

diegodlh created this task.

Note that the error persists when the template is changed to be non-applicable.

But it disappears when the template is removed altogether.

Updating title accordingly.

diegodlh renamed this task from Server seems to crash when citoid=true and Citoid fails but Web2Cit doesn't to Server seems to crash when citoid=true and Citoid fails (and one template available) .Sep 27 2023, 4:11 PM

diegodlh mentioned this in T317448: Consider returning a result even if the fallback template does not apply.Sep 27 2023, 4:24 PM

Interestingly, this does not happen when the template uses fixed-value selection steps only:

This revision which uses fixed-value selection steps only doesn't crash Web2Cit and can be used to get a rather useless (but better than nothing) citation using Web2Cit-Gadget.
This previous revision, which uses XPath selection steps, causes Web2Cit to crash as described above.

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