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

Sat Oct 26 14:22:19 BST 2013

It's just the same, empty, even if I display de cookie at that the start 
of the edit windows it's empty....

Smith, John schreef op 26-10-2013 12:19:
> Yes i am sure that happens when you turn off cookies but then i don't understand how you get to that page as no cookies means no session?!?
>
> I would have thought that you would get the session not set message instead of the wizard if the cookie was empty...
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> If you can add a line to alert() that document.cookie setting then you might find that it is the PHPSESSID that is different. I tried googling but get nothing...
>
> Regards
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health and Life Sciences
>
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
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>
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> Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:
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> When debugging the issue with our install, I get an empty cookie:
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> [cid:part1.02060907.00050905 at tor.nl]
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> Is this is settings thing?
>
> Tom
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> Tom Reijnders schreef op 26-10-2013 11:31:
> Re Issue 2,
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> It's working on the vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk sandpit:
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> POST /sandpit/modules/xerte/engine/upload.php?path=USER-FILES/1052-reijnders at tor.nl-Nottingham/media/&BROWSER=firefox&AUTH=moodle&COOKIE=MoodleSessiontechdismoodle%3Dp91ni1h0fmu8l8mm9aq8dta5v6%3B%20MoodleSessionTesttechdismoodle%3DOV9jqQnwS9%3B%20_ga%3DGA1.3.238155761.1382779196%3B%20MOODLEID_techdismoodle%3D%2525F1%2525C9%252517F%2525BDy%2525B5%25251C%2525F3g%2525F5%252529%2525F1%25251A%2525D4m HTTP/1.1
>
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> Tom Reijnders schreef op 26-10-2013 11:08:
> Fixed this one.
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> Tom Reijnders schreef op 26-10-2013 10:58:
> Thomas's issue has to do with some debugging code left behind by someone (I think it was Pat).
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> I'll have a closer look.
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> Smith, John schreef op 26-10-2013 10:00:
>
> Hi Thomas
>
> Yes i was referring to Tom's issue number 2 but your issue seems to be a separate third issue...
>
> I think Tom made some changes to the import/export code to solve in-memory issues so he might be able to shed some light on your problem.
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> You always seem to have a very up to date windows install though so it would be very useful if you could try to replicate the media upload issue in Firefox 24 on whatever windows version you have. I think the Jisc sandbox is running the very latest version of the software now.
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> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health and Life Sciences
>
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
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>
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> "Thomas Rochford (Jiscadvance)" <thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk><mailto:thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Hi John,
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> Your image shows media rather than a zip being upload. My problem is that I can upload the zip file and Xerte can unzip it in the import directory, however the file does not appear in the Workspace and there's nothing in the USER_FILES directory and nothing in the template_details table, and no success/failure message under normal settings.
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> I've turned on error reporting and get this:
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> [cid:_com_android_email_attachmentprovider_1_28415_RAW at sec.galaxytab]
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> The offending line reads
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> echo $zip $new_file_name ."<br />";
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> Kindest regards, Thomas
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>
>
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> 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 16:01
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New 2.1, there are 2 problems in Firefox only
>
> Hi Tom, Thomas,
>
> I've now updated the server to the latest install and I'm still not seeing the issue:
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> [cid:_com_android_email_attachmentprovider_1_28409_RAW at sec.galaxytab]
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> I've also tracked the upload.php url parameters and get the correct URL (which is why the upload happens)
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> POST /modules/xerte/engine/upload.php?path=USER-FILES/1-pat-Nottingham/media/&BROWSER=firefox&AUTH=xerte&PHPSESSID=**mysession** HTTP/1.1
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> SO I'm not sure why you are seeing &null instead of BROWSER=firefox&AUTH=xerte&PHPSESSID=**mysession** HTTP/1.1
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> That is definitely the cause of the issue on your machine. The session cannot be restarted in upload.php because it doesn't have the correct information. I assume you have cleared the cache since upgrade although the code to pass the correct info to upload.php hasn't changed for a while...
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> Thinking about it too, we I updated the wizard to use file_exists.php but that message you got is perhaps as confusing... perhaps we should leave the file_exists.php and create a new file which can give some better feedback on whether it is a session issue, a permissions issue, etc etc.
>
> 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><mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Thomas Rochford (Jiscadvance)
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 3:29 PM
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New 2.1, there are 2 problems in Firefox only
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> Hi,
>
> I've just checked, the files are there, in the import folder, all neatly unzipped, so it's not a permissions problem with the file system.
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> I don't know enough about the way the code works the delve much deeper, but my next thoughts are that if it's not the file system properties, it could be something to do with the SQL, or the way it transfers the date to the USER_FILES.
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> I've done a manual transfer to the USER_FILES (creating a stub in the editor, then uploading the media and template.xwd into the directory created, and copying the latter to 'data' after deleting the 'data' file that was there) and that works just fine. I'm not sure if I need to overwrite the 'data' file or not, but it seems to work.
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Thomas
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> 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><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 14:28
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New 2.1, there are 2 problems in Firefox only
>
> Oh right ok, I'll give it a try -- that server is relatively up to date (not latest though) but I wasn't aware of any code changes to the upload path (other than the moov stuff being removed)...
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> Let me update and try again...
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> Regards,
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health & Life Sciences
> Glasgow Caledonian University
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> 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><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 2:21 PM
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New 2.1, there are 2 problems in Firefox only
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> No I am not, and I am using the latest 2.1
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> [cid:_com_android_email_attachmentprovider_1_28410_RAW at sec.galaxytab]
> Smith, John schreef op 25-10-2013 15:16:
> Hmm..
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> Tom, are you using windows 8.1?
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> I just tried in Windows 7 with Firefox 24 and it worked fine for me... Can anyone else with Windows 8 or 8.1 confirm whether it works for them?
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> [cid:_com_android_email_attachmentprovider_1_28411_RAW at sec.galaxytab]
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> Regards,
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> John Smith
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