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

[Faiyaz Ahmed]

Yes, a new rc candidate will likely be checked into CVS late today or 
early next week after some preliminary testing.  Clearly the website has 
had a good number of fixes applied to it, the node software (especially 
NM) has seen a great deal of additions, and a few other minor things 
including but not limited to the Bootmanager and pl_mom have had some 
work done to them.

It would only make sense to bump the release.  I will email the list 
when its ready.



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Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
> 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
>>
> 
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