[Xerte-dev] Re: New 2.1, there are 2 problems in Firefox only

Smith, John J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk
Fri Oct 25 12:50:16 BST 2013 

Ah... thanks for confirming that Ron - was it in Firefox that you tested this?. I always had that down as something that I hadn't implemented and since I am using the default Moodle session name to restart the session in Firefox and Safari (the only two browsers needing this it present) but perhaps it isn't an issue...

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 12:27 PM
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New 2.1, there are 2 problems in Firefox only

> Something else that should/could go into the upload.php page is handling of Moodle session prefix which we don't cater for just now either but will come back to bite us at some point...<

Hi John
if what you mean by the above snippet is the ability to add a session prefix within Moodle admin so that more than one moodle installation can run on the same server and being able to be logged into each at the same time then I don't think that session prefix has any impact on using moodle authentication with Xerte. It's always worked fine for me whether a cookie prefix is set or not. I just tested an install with and without a prefix and all seemed fine.

HTH
Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 25 October 2013 12:09
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New 2.1, there are 2 problems in Firefox only

OK. Looking at the code:

        function getSessionID(){
                        var id;
                        var auth = '<?php echo strtolower($xerte_toolkits_site->authentication_method); ?>';
                        var browser =        (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('firefox') > -1) ? 'firefox' :
                                                        ((navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('safari') > -1) ? 'safari' :
                                                        'other');

                        //Pass data to upload (Firefox Flash Cookie Bug) which we are
                        //It first checks moodle, then defaults
                        if (auth == 'moodle') {

                                //Its Moodle integration so we need the whole cookie
                                return 'BROWSER=' + browser + '&AUTH=moodle&COOKIE=' + escape(document.cookie);
                        }
                        else if ((id = document.cookie.match(/PHPSESSID=[^;]+/))) {

                                // Its Default authentication so we only need session id
                                return 'BROWSER=' + browser + '&AUTH=xerte&' + id;
                        }

                        return null;
        }

The only reason for &null to be in the URL is if the cookie doesn't have PHPSESSID= in it (assuming you are not using Moodle).

That means that Firefox 24 must be using a different session cookie identifier?!? Which is going to further complicate things... Something else that should/could go into the upload.php page is handling of Moodle session prefix which we don't cater for just now either but will come back to bite us at some point...

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 10:41 AM
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New 2.1, there are 2 problems in Firefox only

Hmmm, they look decidedly strange to me:

192.168.50.11 - - [25/Oct/2013:11:39:01 +0200] "POST /~tom/xotdev/modules/xerte/engine/upload.php?path=USER-FILES/1-tom-Nottingham/media/&null HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Shockwave Flash"
192.168.50.11 - - [25/Oct/2013:11:39:05 +0200] "POST /~tom/xotdev/modules/xerte/engine/file_exists.php HTTP/1.1" 200 39 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0"

i.e. I would have expected some indication of firefox on the first line as well.
Smith, John schreef op 25-10-2013 11:11:
Hi Tom,

It is most likely the flash cookie bug. Can you see what the useragent string presents as for the new Firefox? I've seen issues on the mediaelements Github site that IE11 has a different useragent string or something...

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 9:11 AM
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New 2.1, there are 2 problems in Firefox only

committed issue 1,

re issue 2, I am using Firefox 24.0, latest 2.1-beta

Tom
Ron Mitchell schreef op 25-10-2013 9:47:
Hi Tom

re issue 1
can't see a problem with that 5px change

re issue 2
I just tested with Firefox 16.0.2 and uploading images and video works fine for me with 2.2 code grabbed this morning.

HTH
Ron


From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 24 October 2013 21:48
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] New 2.1, there are 2 problems in Firefox only

Issue 1:

The space needed by the buttons in the Dutch translation is too large:

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This only happens in (some) installations of firefox, i.e. I have problems on my PC, but Inge does not on hers (Both Win7Pro 64bit).
Does anyone mind if I set the margins of .file_mgt_area_middle to 10px i.s.o. 15px?

[cid:image002.png at 01CED180.C0FF29D0]

Issue 2, upload of media, so far only encountered in firefox:

I can't upload media. Tested with video and images.

[cid:image003.png at 01CED180.C0FF29D0]

Tom



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