[Xerte-dev] Re: session issue + example_zipper issue

Tue Apr 8 16:36:55 BST 2014

session ids are likely to be dependent on the entropy time out settings in
php.ini

do a php ini comparison

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

> Comment the code out again and see if it goes away... although it's
> strange that I can't reproduce the issue...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
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> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: 08 April 2014 15:59
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: session issue + example_zipper issue
>
> No, it's FF, and I'm fairly sure it's related to the stuff that changed
> around file uploads: at least that's when it first appeared,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: 08 April 2014 14:49
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: session issue + example_zipper issue
>
> Ah well it looks like this was in the zipping code which preceded the new
> code that Tom implemented recently, to remove some dependency...
>
> Hmmm, we really need to get to the bottom of that session id problem. Does
> it do it in every browser?
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
> Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences |
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> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell [
> ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk]
> Sent: 08 April 2014 14:33
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: session issue + example_zipper issue
>
> Yeah sorry the xyz... was just my representation of a series of numbers
> followed by .zip
>
> My test of the latest code was on xampp only. I'll test again but Julian
> has also reported session id not set issues.
>
> Cheers
> Ron
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: 08 April 2014 14:05
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: session issue + example_zipper issue
>
> I've not really seen any session issues on a windows install and on xampp
> mainly though. Have never seen the invalid templat id error either...
>
> the example_zipper_new... file seems to be related to old export code (
> https://code.google.com/p/xerteonlinetoolkits/source/browse/trunk/modules/x
> erte/export.php?spec=svn696&r=696) with _xyz on the end nothing shows in
> Google but remove _xyz and you get hits...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
> Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences |
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> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: 08 April 2014 13:39
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: session issue + example_zipper issue
>
> Never seen 'invalid template id'. But 'session ID not set' is doing my
> head in.
>
> I don't recognise 2.
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron
> Mitchell
> Sent: 08 April 2014 13:23
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] session issue + example_zipper issue
>
> Hi all
> I think an issue I mentioned in the thread entitled testing results got
> lost in the discussion about re-running setup so I'm checking again along
> with a separate issue I've noticed.
>
> Issue 1
> I downloaded xertetoolkits_2.1 Version:2.1 Last update  2014-03-14 from
> the community site and from my testing this revision is not reliable e.g.
> one minute I can create an LO and the next minute I get one of two errors
> when trying to create a new lo:
> Session ID not set
> or
> Invalid template_id (could not find in DB)
>
> Q. Does this not happen for others?
>
> Issue 2
> In an older revision that I've been using which seems to be relatively
> trouble free I've noticed that one or more files named something like
> example_zipper_new_xyz. is getting created and included in any successful
> export but also still residing in the project folder on the server.
>
> Q. Does anyone recognise this? Was it fixed in a later revision that
> doesn't have the session issue above?
>
> Cheers
> Ron
>
>
>
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