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

Fri Oct 25 12:59:55 BST 2013

Hi John

yes I tested with Firefox but only 16.0.2 and have certainly used all
browsers with installations where custom prefix is in place.

Cheers

Ron

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 25 October 2013 12:50
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New 2.1, there are 2 problems in Firefox only

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

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[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

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[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

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[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-Nottingha
m/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

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[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

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[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:

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?

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

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

Tom

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SC021474

Winner: Times Higher Education's Widening Participation Initiative of the
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