 17 May 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, openssl situation, MacOS 10.11 (El Capitan) openssl compilation errors
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> I recently upgraded my macbook to MacOS 10.11.
> [ and midas would not compile ]
> It seems that MacOS has now fully removed openssl ...
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 13 Jun 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, running mhttpd on port 443
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mhttpd running as non-root cannot bind to standard https port 443. By default, mhttpd uses port
8443 and it works just fine, but some applications such as the SSLlabs https tester insist on using
port 443.
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13 Jun 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mongoose v6.4 is ready for use
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latest version of mongoose web server library (v6.4) is now implemented in midas. To try it out, edit
the Makefile, comment-out USE_MONGOOSE4, uncomment USE_MONGOOSE6, make clean,
make.
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13 Sep 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mongoose v6.4 is ready for use
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> latest version of mongoose web server library (v6.4) is now implemented in midas.
A number of bugs were found in the mongoose v6 implementation of HTTP digest authentication:
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16 Sep 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, New rootana forum | rootana web display tools
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> We have started a new elog for discussions of the ROOTANA MIDAS analyzer package
Posting there is almost like talking to oneself - barely anybody is subscribed, not even me.
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26 Sep 2016, Wes Gohn, Info, mongoose v6.4 is ready for use
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Since updating to the most recent midas commit, we get the following error if we try running mhttpd without su privileges:
>mhttpd -e CR --http 8081
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26 Sep 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mongoose v6.4 is ready for use
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> Since updating to the most recent midas commit, we get the following error if we try running mhttpd without su privileges:
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> >mhttpd -e CR --http 8081
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13 Oct 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, new odbinit utility
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odbinit is a new utility program to initialize new ODB and to recover from corrupted ODB.
Right now, midas odb has some strange properties different from typical behavior of other
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14 Oct 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Javascript based run start and stop pages.
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I switched mhttpd to use the new javascript based run start and stop pages.
There are two new html pages:
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01 Dec 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas wiki updated to mediawiki 1.27.1
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midas wiki at https://midas.triumf.ca/MidasWiki/index.php/Main_Page
was updated to MediaWiki version 1.27.1, the current MediaWiki LTS release.
Everything should work as before, but if you see any problems or anomalies, please report
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05 Dec 2016, Thomas Lindner, Info, Javascript based run start and stop pages.
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> I switched mhttpd to use the new javascript based run start and stop pages.
One initial complaint: the transition.html page doesn't seem to deal well with a frontend program using
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01 Feb 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Javascript based run start and stop pages.
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> > I switched mhttpd to use the new javascript based run start and stop pages.
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> One initial complaint: the transition.html page doesn't seem to deal well with a frontend program using
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01 Feb 2017, Stefan Ritt, Info, Javascript based run start and stop pages.
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> > > I switched mhttpd to use the new javascript based run start and stop pages.
> >
> > One initial complaint: the transition.html page doesn't seem to deal well with a frontend program using
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14 Feb 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd.js split into midas.js, mhttpd.js and obsolete.js
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As discussed before, the midas omnibus javascript file mhttpd.js has been split into three pieces:
midas.js - midas "public api" for building web pages that interact with midas
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13 Mar 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, improved mhttpd sounds
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I reworked the alarm sounds in mhttpd - now you can turn off all sounds without disabling the
alarm system for everybody.
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26 Apr 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, added db_get_value_string()
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Since we have been regularly running into problems with db_get_xxx(TID_STRING) and string buffers of mismatched size,
I now implemented db_get_value_string(hdb, hkey, key_name, index, &string, create).
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26 Apr 2017, Stefan Ritt, Info, added db_get_value_string()
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Just some thought for discussion:
Rather than "spicing up" the MIDAS library here and there with C++ objects such as std::string, wouldn't it make more sense to "cleanly" wrap an ODB value |
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02 May 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, added db_resize_string()
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> Since we have been regularly running into problems with db_get_xxx(TID_STRING) and string buffers of mismatched size,
> I now implemented db_get_value_string(hdb, hkey, key_name, index, &string, create).
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02 May 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd inline-editor change
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I changed the mhttpd odb inline editor to use the json-rpc interface. Good things:
- browser no longer complains about obsolete synchronous ajax calls
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02 May 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, added db_get_value_string()
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> Just some thought for discussion:
Even more thoughts:
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