[Xerte-dev] Re: session issue

Smith, John J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk
Thu Apr 10 20:07:49 BST 2014 

Hi Ron,

Well, further to your testing I was now able to reproduce the problem on BrowserStack using IE10.

What I am seeing (hopefully you can confirm) is that when you click create 3x files load asynchronously and one of them is logout.php... (see screenshot) but its not the same files as on the older sandpit install.

I'm not sure yet why it is loading that file though or indeed why it is not doing it in other browsers but we're a step closer to locating the problem. It must be in a recent change to the javascript though so at least its closer to being tracked down.

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow Caledonian University
Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
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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: 10 April 2014 15:35
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: session issue

Hi John/all
ok I've been testing further and there are too many variables to conclude
for sure but here's a summary...

Have been testing with 2.1 branch from git
As far as I can tell there's definitely a problem with IE 10 which in my
case doesn't occur with IE 11 or other browsers
Have tested with two separate Windows 7 installs with IE 10 and can
reproduce the problem with both IE10's and via xampp as well as an online
linux install
the same installs work fine via IE 11 and also as decribed previously
earlier XOT code works fine with the same IE 10
I've been testing the local xampp installs via guest auth and the online
installs via moodle so the authentication method doesn't seem important

If you have IE10 and access to the server we used previously for testing
updates you can test as follows:
1. Visit http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot (latest 2.1 branch) try creating a
project you should get a session error?
2. Visit http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sandpit (earlier 2.1 branch) try
creating a project should work
Other browsers should work fine on both installs although curious as to
whether Julian or anyone else gets session errors with firefox?

Not sure if it's relevant or a problem just with the Win 7 via Parrallels I
was using on my Mac to test a second IE10 on a different pc but on that I
was also getting the following js error:

script16386: No such inteface supported

template_management.js, line182 character 7

As I say that may be a red herring but the error I can reproduce reliably
with latest 2.1 + IE10 but not previous 2.1 regardless of browser is:

Session ID not set

HTH
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: 09 April 2014 09:59
To: xerte at pgogywebstuff.com; xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: session issue + example_zipper issue

Its possible i suppose but i would have thought that it would kill all
sessions equally...

until we can reproduce it is going to be really hard to track down...

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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"Pat L (pgogy)" <xerte at pgogywebstuff.com> wrote:


is there some whitespace in new commits messing up sessions?


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>
wrote:
;-)

I just remember some stuff changing around then about sessions...

so 2 + 2 = ?
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[xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.not
tingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Smith, John
[J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk<mailto:J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk>]
Sent: 08 April 2014 17:20
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: session issue + example_zipper issue

I know you WANT it to be related to the upload code ;-) but I doubt it is as
that is not touched after login until you actually edit and upload a media
file... Ron is seeing it in IE10 which I don't think is affected by the
Flash Cookie bug anyway...

Doesn't seem to be any commonality yet: Firefox and IE10, LDAP and Guest....

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow
Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
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tingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
[Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto: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,

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sts.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 | Glasgow
Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
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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


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sts.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 08 April 2014 14:05
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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 | Glasgow
Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
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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.

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ingham.ac.uk>
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sts.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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