[Bug 302376] New: Long backtrace can exceed 64K comment limit

[Maarten ter Huurne]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302376

            Bug ID: 302376
          Severity: normal
           Version: unspecified
          Priority: NOR
                CC: kiagiadakis.george at gmail.com
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
           Summary: Long backtrace can exceed 64K comment limit
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: maarten at treewalker.org
          Hardware: openSUSE RPMs
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: general
           Product: drkonqi

I tried to report a bug with Dr Konqi, but the API call used to upload the
report to the bugs.kde.org server doesn't accept comments over 64K in length.
However, this limit includes the size of the backtrace and in this case the
backtrace was very long (80 threads with several lines each). The total crash
report was 96K in size.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make an application with a lot of threads crash.
2. Try to submit the crash report.

Actual Results:  
A dialog displaying an error page from the server saying:

Comments cannot be longer than 65535 characters.
Please press Back and try again.


Expected Results:  
The server accepting the crash report.

One solution would be to increase the 64K limit so the chances of a valid bug
report exceeding it are so small it won't happen in practice. Another solution
would be to upload the backtrace separately from the other data and apply a
different limit to it.

I have KDE 4.8.4 installed, but I don't know which version of Dr Konqi
corresponds to that. I couldn't find the executable either to request --version
from.

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