I just tried running VGTU. My machine has now completed all of the downloaded WUs, but can't upload anything and hasn't been able to for a couple of days.

To see what was happening, I enabled event log options file_xfer and http_xfer_debug and got the following (sample):

2017-08-17 23:37:52 | VGTU project@Home | Started upload of vgtuApp_GrillageOpt_1502852476_284943_0_r13464950970
2017-08-17 23:37:52 | VGTU project@Home | Started upload of vgtuApp_GrillageOpt_1502852476_284966_0_r3934730800
2017-08-17 23:37:54 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2017-08-17 23:37:54 | VGTU project@Home | Temporarily failed upload of vgtuApp_GrillageOpt_1502852476_284972_0_r15325185410: transient HTTP error
2017-08-17 23:37:54 | VGTU project@Home | Backing off 00:04:34 on upload of vgtuApp_GrillageOpt_1502852476_284972_0_r15325185410
2017-08-17 23:37:54 | VGTU project@Home | Temporarily failed upload of vgtuApp_GrillageOpt_1502852476_284963_0_r18349996980: transient HTTP error
2017-08-17 23:37:54 | VGTU project@Home | Backing off 00:05:25 on upload of vgtuApp_GrillageOpt_1502852476_284963_0_r18349996980
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What I completely fail to understand here is why some programmer working on boinc would log the message "transient HTTP error" and **not tell me what the error code was**.

Since the real error isn't in the log, is there some other way to find out what happened?

Thank you
++PLS

Oh, and please fix that message to include the error code.

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If you enable the http_debug logging flag, you'll get additional output which is likely to be useful. In cases like this, http_debug is more useful than http_xfer_debug.

Depending on the platform and version of BOINC you're running, it may be possible to enable logging flags from a graphical interface: press Ctrl+Shift+F in the Manager.

That did it, I now see
2017-08-18 02:18:22 | VGTU project@Home | [http] [ID#710] Info: Empty reply from server

I guess the project is messed up on their side.

Thanks for the information.

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