 05 Mar 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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I stop the discussion here because it goes in circles. We can't convince each others, so somebody has to give up, and that's me.
> We have several large installations at TRIUMF that use the old-style custom pages - MUSR, BNMR/BNQR, TITAN (and more?) -
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05 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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> > We have several large installations at TRIUMF that use the old-style custom pages - MUSR, BNMR/BNQR, TITAN (and more?) -
> > none of these experiments are going away any time soon and none of these custom pages are rewriting themselves.
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05 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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> That sounds fine, as long as it is clearly documented.
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05 Mar 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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> The biggest problem so far we have seen is with some pages having incorrect form submission
> settings - some forms use the wrong form "action" attribute, which worked before, we do not know
> why, and definitely does not work now. This is not something that we can fix on the midas side.
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05 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd magic urls
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> Here is the list of mhttpd magic URLs.
See additional magic URLs at the very bottom:
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06 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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> > The biggest problem so far we have seen is with some pages having incorrect form submission
> > settings - some forms use the wrong form "action" attribute, which worked before, we do not know
> > why, and definitely does not work now. This is not something that we can fix on the midas side.
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06 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd magic urls
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> > Here is the list of mhttpd magic URLs.
> See additional magic URLs at the very bottom:
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14 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, bitbucket issue tracker "feature"
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> It turns out the bitbucket issue tracker has a feature - I cannot make it automatically add me
> to the watcher list of all new issues.
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 14 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, switch to json odb dump format
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Regarding odb dumps saved into the midas output files, there are several
requests to make it possible to save odb in the json format.
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14 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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I now understand Stefan's and Thomas's proposal a little bit better.
In my mind only one issue remains - when we say "we will serve files from directory X", how
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14 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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> In my mind only one issue remains - when we say "we will serve files from directory X", how
> to we prevent mhttpd from serving files outside this directory by using trick URLs containing ".."
> and/or other gimmicks.
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14 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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> > In my mind only one issue remains - when we say "we will serve files from directory X", how
> > to we prevent mhttpd from serving files outside this directory by using trick URLs containing ".."
> > and/or other gimmicks.
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21 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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> In my mind only one issue remains - when we say "we will serve files from directory X", how
> to we prevent mhttpd from serving files outside this directory by using trick URLs containing ".."
> and/or other gimmicks.
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21 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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> Before the days of javascript and ajax and web 2.0, MIDAS introduced "custom pages" for
> building graphical display that could show "live" data from MIDAS and that could
> have buttons and controls to operate slow controls equipment, etc.
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21 Mar 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd magic urls
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> > > Here is the list of mhttpd magic URLs.
> > See additional magic URLs at the very bottom:
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15 Apr 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++
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For a long time now we have keep the core of midas (odb.c, midas.c, etc) compatible with plain C and by default
we have built the MIDAS library using the plain C compiler. Over time, we have switched most MIDAS programs
(mhttpd, mlogger, mdump, odbedit, etc) to C++ (with happy results). (and for a long time now, all of MIDAS
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15 Apr 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++, which C++?
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> With the removal of the requirement to make it possible to write MIDAS frontends in C, we can switch the MIDAS
> default build to C++ and start using C++ features in the MIDAS API (std::string, std::vector, etc).
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15 Apr 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++, how much C++?
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> > With the removal of the requirement to make it possible to write MIDAS frontends in C, we can switch the MIDAS
> > default build to C++ and start using C++ features in the MIDAS API (std::string, std::vector, etc).
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16 Apr 2019, Pintaudi Giorgio, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++, how much C++?
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Dear Konstantin,
even if I am still quite young and have only limited experience (but not null), I would like to give my two cents. I have reflected a bit about the C++ |
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17 Apr 2019, John M O'Donnell, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++, how much C++?
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some semi-random thoughts:
no templates strictly means you can't use std::string, std::vector etc.
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