02:06:52 <McManiaC> stepcut: HTTP request failed with: requestLine cannot handle input:  ["GET","/67/","why","does","this","give","me","an","exception","anyway","instead","of","a","\"Left","...\"?http://ppslaterent.com/nrs/rapz.txt??","HTTP/1.1"]
02:06:56 <McManiaC> whats that error about? ^^
02:09:12 <stepcut> McManiaC: umm.. that is something you did..
02:09:25 <stepcut> or a 3rd party library like happstack-helpers..
02:09:53 <McManiaC> its quite common tho
02:10:01 <stepcut> I have never seen it
02:10:30 <stepcut> let me look a bit more
02:10:47 <McManiaC> grep doesnt find anything… hmm
02:11:09 <stepcut> I think the URL parser in happstack-server does not like the url for some reason
02:11:19 <stepcut> it may be a bug in happstack, or it might just be an invalid URL?
02:11:27 <stepcut> happstack-server/src/Happstack/Server/HTTP/Handler.hs
02:12:20 <stepcut> what is the url that was requested?
02:12:25 <McManiaC> no idea
02:12:34 <McManiaC> I just see it in the happstack log
02:12:54 <McManiaC> I would have tried it long ago if I knew what would produce this
02:17:29 <stepcut> I think it is a spam botnet of some sort
02:18:20 <stepcut> it specifies an invalid url that somehow results in the server downloading and running a php script which connects to irc, and then joins a channel where it can receive commands to send emails
02:18:49 <McManiaC> hmmm okay
02:19:13 <stepcut> can also be used to do DOS attacks and spread itself to other servers
02:19:22 <stepcut> so, consider it a feature that it doesn't work with happstack :)
02:19:27 <McManiaC> :)
02:19:36 <McManiaC> I think I dont even have php installed hehe
02:21:50 <stepcut> good idea!
13:08:49 <osaunders> hi
13:10:26 <rdtsc> hello
13:14:51 <osaunders> hey
13:15:08 <osaunders> I'm thinking of using Happstack.
13:15:36 <osaunders> But I'm not very experienced with Haskell.
13:16:41 <osaunders> Is it a bad idea, do you think?
13:39:12 <osaunders> :-( http://codepad.org/KGsKLqhF
13:39:25 <rdtsc> if you familiar with transformers, it is a good idea
13:40:18 <rdtsc> *are familiar
13:40:39 <osaunders> No I'm not. I haven't really done monads yet. :-(
13:41:31 <rdtsc> osaunders: try online tutorial
13:41:43 <osaunders> Yeah, I am.
13:42:03 <osaunders> Except for that Quickcheck dependency problem (see link above).
13:44:11 <rdtsc> i mean http://tutorial.happstack.com/
13:44:54 <osaunders> Uh huh, I'm trying to do this: http://tutorial.happstack.com/tutorial/run-tutorial-locally
13:46:10 <rdtsc> i don't think it is so neсessarry
13:49:11 <osaunders> OK
14:04:17 <Muad_Dibber> hmm weird, I didnt get that dependency :-o
14:05:15 <Muad_Dibber> I solved a similar "problem" while installing lambdabot by doing "cabal configure", manually installing all packages required
14:05:18 <Muad_Dibber> and then just cabal build
14:05:23 <Muad_Dibber> instead of cabal install
14:23:10 <osaunders> Muad_Dibber: OK I did cabal configure and it told me a bunch of uninstalled packages. I seem to be able to install all of them except happstack-helpers which when I try to install it reports that same error about Crypto-4.2.1 and Quickcheck. The weird thing is Crypto-4.2.1 is already installed so I don't know why it needs to be configured at all.
14:24:41 <Muad_Dibber> well for what I understood, cabal tries to configure all packages and dependencies with an consistent version of quickcheck
14:24:47 <Muad_Dibber> which in this case obviously isn't working
14:26:05 <osaunders> Hm.
14:26:52 <Muad_Dibber> infact, I see I haven't got happstack-helpers installed at all
14:27:04 <osaunders> Ah.
14:27:25 <osaunders> Do you get the same error if you try to install it?
14:27:30 <Muad_Dibber> yes
14:27:54 <Muad_Dibber> (I cleaned up everything yesterday since I had some problems with otherpackages, and I messed my complete ghc conf up )
14:28:57 <Muad_Dibber> Give me one minute osaunders :)
14:29:05 <osaunders> OK, cool. :-)
14:31:16 <Muad_Dibber> Right, Crypto-4.2.0 doesn 't depend on a particular version of quickcheck
14:31:28 <Muad_Dibber> So what I just did is: cabal install Crypto-4.2.0
14:31:36 <Muad_Dibber> then cabal install happstack-helpers
14:31:44 <Muad_Dibber> and now it just runs fine
14:32:17 <osaunders> Ok, let me try this.
14:34:18 <osaunders> How do I tell Cabal to use Crypto-4.2.0 when installing happstack-helpers?
14:34:39 <Muad_Dibber> I'd just manually install Crypto-4.2.0
14:34:49 <Muad_Dibber> and after that install happstack-helpers
14:34:55 <osaunders> Yeah, I did that.
14:35:02 <osaunders> Should I uninstall Crypto-4.2.1 as well?
14:35:02 <Muad_Dibber> I'm newbie enough to don't know if there is another way around
14:37:27 <osaunders> cabal install happstack-helpers is still failing in the same way btw.
14:38:22 <Muad_Dibber> what does cabal show Crypto tell you?
14:39:43 <osaunders> http://codepad.org/upk3atMk
14:40:37 <Muad_Dibber> Hmm, it also still lists crypto 4.2.1; too bad there isn't a more experienced user online right now :/
14:40:55 <Muad_Dibber> maybe try cabal install Crypto-4.2.0 --reinstall
14:43:17 <osaunders> Nope.
14:43:22 <osaunders> :-(
14:43:41 <osaunders> There's no command to remove packages in cabal.
14:45:12 <Muad_Dibber> we should maybe look at ghc-package hide Crypto-4.2.1 --user
14:47:15 <osaunders> Nice idea.
14:47:22 <osaunders> But didn't work.
14:48:10 <Muad_Dibber> Try asking in #haskell, there might just be someone there that can help you
14:48:22 <osaunders> Wait a minute!
14:48:34 <osaunders> ghc-pkg unregister seems to have worked.
14:49:30 <osaunders> w00t!
14:49:44 <Muad_Dibber> great :D
14:50:03 <osaunders> Yeah, it works I'm running the Happs Tutorial now. xD
14:50:16 <osaunders> Nice one, thanks for all the help Maud_Dibber.
14:50:48 <osaunders> 
ACTION goes for a nap.

14:50:50 <Muad_Dibber> Have fun with the tutorial :)
16:00:39 <osaunders> How active is happstack's development?
16:49:31 <mightybyte> asaunders: Decently active.
16:49:36 <mightybyte> asaunders: Definitely not stalled.
17:02:38 <Muad_Dibber> mightybyte, Happstack 0.4.1 is the current version released through hackage, right?
17:29:03 <Muad_Dibber> (asked that because http://code.google.com/p/happstack/wiki/RoadMap still lists 0.3 and 0.4)
17:52:08 <mightybyte> Yes, 0.4.1 is current.