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

[Reid Moran]

I dont think we should rush this at all.  There are still plenty of 
things to fix and APIs to tighten up, I dont think we are ready to push 
out a new RC yet, unless we want to get in the habit of pushing them out 
weekly, which defeats the purpose.  No rush, let's make sure we got 
things fixed first, give users more of a chance to hammer it so we can 
find areas of lag and fix them, along with other major bugs we may have 
missed.

-Reid


Faiyaz Ahmed wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> F
>
> 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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