[Planetlab-devel] Re: api sessions & other issues with the web UI

[Thierry Parmentelat]

Thanks Reid, it does help
My repositories are uptodate - wrt HEAD. Should I use another update 
strategy to get these changes ?
Btw, are there any plans to build an rc2 for this planetlab-4.0 ?
Thierry

Reid Moran wrote:
> We already fixed this bug, update your repositories.  The GetEvents 
> calls was somehow destroying each user's session when they accessed a 
> page making that call.  I have changed the web pages so that only 
> admins can even access that call.  This fixes the problem, we are 
> looking into the GetEvents call and redoing the API to make it work 
> better right now.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Reid
>
> Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
>> Hi Reid
>>
>> I'm experiencing a bug in the web UI.  I'm having this issue on the 
>> one-lab site but not on planet-lab.org:
>> Whenever a given node's details are displayed, the web session 
>> becomes useless; the api session gets rejected by the API and any 
>> given subsequent call to the API fails. It turns out the session 
>> entry in the database somehow gets wiped off.
>>
>> On my site I've found out that I could getting rid of the issue if I 
>> did not call GetEvents in nodes/index.php
>>
>> Does this ring any bell ? It sounds like an issue that appeared on 
>> your website a while ago, that you guys probably have fixed.
>> ==
>> On a similar track, I've found that UpdateNode.py needed a patch for 
>> regular users to be able to change their node's boot state. Again 
>> this is an issue that appeared in the support ML so I take it you've 
>> found out already.
>>
>> ==
>> I've also tweaked the nodes browser to support patterns in hostnames.
>> I am about to commit my changes, and will of course describe all 
>> these changes in the cvs log so you can keep up.
>>
>> Hope this helps - Thierry
>