CLigs Details Pages Crashes Fixed

They say the best way to make software better is to make as many as people use it and watch them break it. Well ladies and gents, you broke Cligs in a big way but now it’s fixed.

The Problem

For some cligs, when the owner browsed to the details page, the browser crashed. Immediately the culprit was noted to be the Flash graph. But what was going on?

The Fix

I’ve never seen a crash on the details pages and so I wanted to figure out how to reproduce the crash. That took a while but I managed to crash all my browsers using one particular clig.

A long search for the root of the problem led me to the way the y-axis was built by the details page when there are zero hits. The Cligs system gets confused in this instance but manages to eek out sensible data. The Flash graph itself though crashes when it receives this data.

The fix was easy: alter the output to the graph so that it doesn’t crash, which is what I did.

Thanks

I’d like to thank all the users who reported this problem, in particular Kris and István for going out of their way on the weekend to help me troubleshoot and confirm the fix.

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