gmane.comp.lang.active4d.devel

web browser client authentication

David Ringsmuth — 2012-05-17T16:52:51

Using openssl we have designed a system with our own self generated
Certificate Authority ("CA"), and our own generated and self-signed
client.crt and client.key.

The IE9 process of following the Certificate Authority path breaks when it
encounters our self generated CA which has no signer recognized in the web
client's certificate trust. 

I do not know how to overcome this issue. If you know of a way around the
web-browser negotiation process for accepting CA's, please help!

Our goal is to give the web client what it needs so that it will accept our
CA, and use the client cert we automatically generate for client web
authentication (using nginx in front of 4D).

The answer is probably "We must get our CA signed by a CA known to and
trusted by the web clients CA trust path."

If you know the answer to this a "yes I agree" or "no that is not right...",
or you can do it this way... is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
David Ringsmuth

Conceptional fusebox question - sent output of a fuseaction to another page area

Peter Gutbrod — 2012-05-17T13:12:45

I've studied the fusebox demo and I think, I've understood most of the
techniques. :-)

In the demo, all dynamically created content is displayed in the mainarea
section. That's easy to follow.

Now to my problem:

Let's take the demo app (vendors, ingredients, units db) and add some
"memorize this item" links to the list view. When clicked they shall display
the current selection in the mainarea (aka. mainarea doesn't change) but I
want the item referenced in the link to be added into a new "memorized_items
list area" within the sidebar, not the mainarea.

If I simply sent the link to a new circuit "memorized_items", the output
(the new list area) is displayed in the mainarea, replacing the current list
of vendors, ingredients, units.

Do I have to nest the memorized_items circuit within the i.e. ingredients
circuit? That would display the current list of ingredients in the mainarea.
But then how to move the output of the memorized_items circuit from the
mainarea to the sidebar. Probably not storing the out

Re: 4D Server Crash

Aparajita Fishman — 2012-05-17T01:54:15

I don't use Windows, so I have no idea about which version to use. Maybe someone else on the list can give some guidance. You should probably use the oldest one you can find, since only your oldest server (Windows 2003) is having the problem, and your newer one (Windows 2008) is not.

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   Aparajita
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Re: 4D Server Crash

Keith McIver — 2012-05-17T01:06:39

Hello Aparajita

It's 32 bit. I have stopped the crashing for a day by uninstalling Quicktime.
Our pictures don't display but at least it is working. What version of Quicktime should we use? I recall previously needing to stop at an older version, 7.1.6 I think.

Regards

Keith 
Keith McIver & Associates 
PO Box 32152 
Christchurch, New Zealand 
Ph +64 21 328489

On 17/05/2012, at 11:46 AM, Aparajita Fishman wrote:

Re: 4D Server Crash

Aparajita Fishman — 2012-05-16T23:46:24

32-bit or 64-bit?

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Re: 4D Server Crash

Keith McIver — 2012-05-15T21:40:21

v5r37 

Regards

Keith 
Keith McIver & Associates 
PO Box 32152 
Christchurch, New Zealand 
Ph +64 21 328489

On 16/05/2012, at 9:20 AM, Aparajita Fishman wrote:

Re: 4D Server Crash

Aparajita Fishman — 2012-05-15T21:20:19

Which version of v5?

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4D Server Crash

Keith McIver — 2012-05-15T21:15:43

Hello A4D Gurus

I have an upgraded 4D Server/Active 4D installation that crashes an hour or so after the 4D web server is started.

Windows 2003 Server 4Gb RAM
4D server v12.3, 
Active 4D v5
WebStar webserver

This is an installation that is converted from 4D v2004 and began with Active 4D v3.
The 4D server is stable in c/s mode but once the 4D web server is started it eventually crashes. The Active 4D settings are all default except for "auto create vars=True"

I suspect the problem may be environmental as I have a near identical installation (same 4D structure, A4D setup, different data files and web pages) except on Win 2008, that has been stable for a month.

Both systems are low traffic, less than 10 c/s users and low web traffic.

I have copied the problem installation onto my test server and it has been stable, with little activity, for 24 hours.

Any clues as to where to start looking would be much appreciated.

TIA

Keith 
Keith McIver & Associates 
Moana, New Zealand 
Ph +64 21 328489

Re: HTTP/S Port/Address weirdness - work-around.

Aparajita Fishman — 2012-05-15T04:24:24

Thanks for the tip!

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   Aparajita
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   "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
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HTTP/S Port/Address weirdness - work-around.

David Ringsmuth — 2012-05-15T04:22:27

V12.3HF5
WS2003SE
A4D v5.0r37

If you are having difficulty with the HTTP/S Port publishing or the IP
Address 4D listens to, I suggest that you change the path to your structure
file.

My path was C:\AppName\AppName.4db, very short. I was not able to get my
structure to publish on 443 using the user interface or the SET DATABASE
PARAMETER command, until I changed the path to the database, then my changes
worked and the database published on the intended port. The database was
publishing before, but not on the ports/IP Address I required.

Something occurs in 4D and the structure remembers which port/IP Address it
was using, and this information sticks, even when moving the structure to a
different box. But when I changed the path on the new box, updates to the
port/IP Address worked again.

I am suspicious that after having worked on the 4D structure on my
development box, 4D is holding onto some piece of information from my box's
environment that is causing the failure. I have seen this new behavior occur
w

The database cannot be published - solved

David Ringsmuth — 2012-05-14T18:04:20

V12.3HF5
Active4D v5.0r37
Windows

I have now encountered two separate databases that after transferring them
from their production box to the development box, the on-startup warning
appears, "The database cannot be published". This appears to be new behavior
in 4D.

The solution has been to insert this code into the A4D_Init method within
the "If ($inStartWebServer)", before "START WEB SERVER".

The code retrieves the current IP address listened-to by 4D,  then uses NTK
to get all local IP addresses on the box,  then searches for the returned IP
address 4D listens to, to see if it is on the box.
If the IP address 4D is listening to is not on the box,  the code sets the
database to listen to the first IP address that exists on the box, that is
NOT 127.0.0.1.

I hope this helps others!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------
// Make sure we listen to an IP Address that exists on this local machine
C_LONGINT($a;$b;$c;$d;$e)
C_LONGINT($addr)
$addr:=Get databas

Re: Fix for the broken New Circuit Action in theTexmate Bundle

Aparajita Fishman — 2012-05-11T17:53:50

Peter,

Thanks for taking the time to fix it. Send me updated source files and I'll include it in the next release.

Regards,

   Aparajita
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   "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
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Fix for the broken New Circuit Action in the TexmateBundle

Peter Gutbrod — 2012-05-11T12:17:13

Aparajita,

I hope you don't take it amiss, if I mess around with your code, but I've
taken a look into the broken New Circuit Action of your Texmate Bundle and
found it easy to fix. Actually it needs just 2 lines of code altered in the
new_circuit.rb file of the bundle.

Here is the beginning of the file:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require ENV['TM_SUPPORT_PATH'] + '/lib/ui.rb'

circuitPath = ENV['TM_SELECTED_FILE']

if not circuitPath then
    print "Please select a folder or a file in whose folder you want to
create the circuit"
    exit(206)
end

openSwitch = false
circuitDir = ""

# If it isn't a directory, get the directory name
if not test(?d, circuitPath) then
    circuitPath = File.dirname(circuitPath)
end

# Ask for the circuit name
result = TextMate::UI.request_string :title => "New Circuit", :prompt =>
"Enter the circuit name:"

# Replace this
# if result.readline.chomp == "1" then  # OK clicked
    # circuitName = result.readline.chomp
    # result.close
    
# with this    
if result != nil then  # O

Re: How efficient are 'Includes' ?

Peter Jakobsson — 2012-05-10T06:54:55

On 10 May 2012, at 02:45, Aparajita Fishman wrote:


Thanks.

Re: How efficient are 'Includes' ?

Aparajita Fishman — 2012-05-10T00:45:59

No caching by Active4D, but the OS is probably caching it in a disk buffer, so it is effectively the same.

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   Aparajita
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   "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
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How efficient are 'Includes' ?

Peter Jakobsson — 2012-05-09T16:39:09

Hi

In a recently launched fusebox site revision I have a piece of content (a product description and image) which now appears 60 times on a page.

I've implemented this by creating the product html in a display fuse, then calling it in a loop with an "Include".

My question is, does Active4D cache the included display fuse or does it have to lift it off the disk every time I call it.

b.t.w., the final result isn't slow. I'm just curious.

Peter

Re: What is your preferred editor for a4d ?

Perkins, Bradley D — 2012-05-09T15:17:50

On 5/9/12 9:03 AM, "Aparajita Fishman" <aparajita-TI4+O7OeaEsyQuewmsSTZNBPR1lH4CV8< at >public.gmane.org>
wrote:


It seemed like last time I looked the latest release versions were more
than a year old and Textmate 2 was on hold. I now see that has changed.
I'll have to have another look.

Thanks,

Brad

Re: What is your preferred editor for a4d ?

Aparajita Fishman — 2012-05-09T15:03:45

It is totally visual. It's like TextMate.



How is TextMate not supported?

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   Aparajita
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   "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
   - Sri Chinmoy   |   www.srichinmoy.org

Re: What is your preferred editor for a4d ?

Perkins, Bradley D — 2012-05-09T15:01:03

I use Dreamweaver too and agree about the code editor for Active4D. DW is
OK for other languages and I really like the site management tools. I
rarely use it in WYSIWYG mode. I haven't found anything that equals the
site management tools, but should note that I have to support other
projects, including one large PHP project that has hundreds of files. I
also heavily rely on remote diff integration.

I'd like to hear more about SublimeText especially how well it works
cross-platform (is the experience similar). After Aparajita noted it the
other day I quickly looked at their web page and also read a Wiki article
which said it "The program was originally designed as a feature-rich
extension of Vim". Is that why it is 'cumbersome', e.g. it uses vi(m)
shortcuts and edit modes?

Despite all the rave reviews for Textmate, I've cautiously avoided it
because it doesn't appear to be supported. Is it "that good" that it
doesn't need to be?

Brad

On 5/9/12 8:42 AM, "Mike Vogt" <MikeVogt-czg+YhalxXZv6AKw3SzrKQ< at >public.g

Re: What is your preferred editor for a4d ?

Aparajita Fishman — 2012-05-09T14:48:58

The answer to the question depends on what you spend most of your time doing: designing or coding. If your goal is to code, don't even consider Dreamweaver. SublimeText takes a little time to get used to, but if you need something on Windows TextMate is not an option.

Even if you need to do a lot of design, the best way to design is to write well structured markup with good CSS in a good editor. You can use something like LiveReload to get instant feedback in the browser.

Regards,

   Aparajita
   www.aparajitaworld.com

   "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
   - Sri Chinmoy   |   www.srichinmoy.org

Re: What is your preferred editor for a4d ?

Mike Vogt — 2012-05-09T14:42:23

I've been playing with SublimeText, but find it cumbersome.  I use Dreamweaver regularly; the code editor sucks, but the WYSIWYG is useful, as well as the site management tools.  I'm on Windows.

MV

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Subject: Re: [Active4d-dev] What is your preferred editor for a4d ?

Thanks Peter for this quick and detailed reply.

I've only took a brief look into Textmate so far, but the Active4D plugins, which IMHO only exist for Textmate, seem to give this editor a significant advantage over other editors.

Pete

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