 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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22 Apr 2019, Pintaudi Giorgio, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++, how much C++? 
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Dear Konstantin and others,
our recent discussion stimulated my curiosity and I wrote a small frontend for the trigger board of our experiment in C++.
The underlying hardware details are not relevant here. I would just like to briefly report and discuss what I found out.
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23 Apr 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++, how much C++?
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> Dear Konstantin and others, our recent discussion stimulated my curiosity and I wrote a small frontend for the trigger board of our
experiment in C++.
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30 Apr 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, How to convert C midas frontends to C++
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To convert a MIDAS frontend to C++ follow this checklist:
a) add #include "mfe.h" after include of midas.h and fix all compilation errors.
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11 May 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++, which C++?
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> [which c++]
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> - Linux RHEL/SL/CentOS6 - gcc 4.4.7, no C++11.
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22 May 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, switch of MIDAS to C++
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> switch MIDAS to C++
switch to C++ will proceed as follows:
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28 May 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, MIDAS switching to Cmake
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Great news! I got convinced by some colleagues to switch midas to Cmake. After spending about one day, I wrote some initial CMakeLists.txt file and am so
excited about the advantages that I regret
not having done this step much earlier. Here is some information:
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