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Web Server - Ask For Help / NetLDAP bug in SetUser procedure
« on: May 05, 2023, 12:54:54 PM »
Bruce,
There's a bug in the NetLDAP.SetUser() procedure when the user name is of the format DOMAIN\Jane.Bean
SetUser is called multiple times by NetLdap.UserInGroup().
The first time through, it correctly strips off the domain and backslash and returns
sAMAccountName=Jane.Bean
After the first time, however, it hits the ELSE clause and adds a backslash.
This results in
sAMAccountName=\Jane.Bean
And the group lookup fails.
There's a comment on line 624 where the extraneous backslash is injected.
I don't know when the change was made to NetLDAP, but was testing something yesterday and discovered that this is broken.
That backslash needs to be not inserted.
NT 12.59.
jf
There's a bug in the NetLDAP.SetUser() procedure when the user name is of the format DOMAIN\Jane.Bean
SetUser is called multiple times by NetLdap.UserInGroup().
The first time through, it correctly strips off the domain and backslash and returns
sAMAccountName=Jane.Bean
After the first time, however, it hits the ELSE clause and adds a backslash.
This results in
sAMAccountName=\Jane.Bean
And the group lookup fails.
There's a comment on line 624 where the extraneous backslash is injected.
I don't know when the change was made to NetLDAP, but was testing something yesterday and discovered that this is broken.
That backslash needs to be not inserted.
NT 12.59.
jf
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: OT - Are the SV newsgroups still alive?
« on: March 20, 2023, 11:13:07 AM »
If you use Thunderbird for the newsgroups, read this:
https://clarionhub.com/t/softvelocity-newsgroup-not-working-thunderbird-setting-change-required/5293
https://clarionhub.com/t/softvelocity-newsgroup-not-working-thunderbird-setting-change-required/5293
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Change a static page
« on: March 20, 2023, 11:02:22 AM »
You can also opt to keep the cache on and manually clear it when you change something static - either with the button on the web server (if it's not running as a service and is visible) or with the magic URL.
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: NT12.55 NetDemo Compile Error
« on: March 06, 2023, 09:41:39 AM »
It's getting filled in by a new default in the "Use NetTalk Send Email Controls" template.
You can go into that extension template on the TestEmailSendControlTemplate procedure in the demo program and delete the value for the "OAuth Token" field.
You can go into that extension template on the TestEmailSendControlTemplate procedure in the demo program and delete the value for the "OAuth Token" field.
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Any SAML wisdom out there?
« on: March 01, 2023, 04:01:07 PM »
Anybody integrated a SAML provider with NetTalk ?
Okta? MS Azure AD? Others?
Any wisdom? Any war stories?
Okta? MS Azure AD? Others?
Any wisdom? Any war stories?
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Draw (Graph) crashes my web server
« on: February 10, 2023, 01:06:10 PM »
For now modifying the code in draw.clw seems like the way to go.
Sounds good. Draw doesn't get updated very often.
I made a copy for this app and changed one line of code in draw.clw. Works fine.
Thanks, Bruce.
Jane
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Draw (Graph) crashes my web server
« on: February 09, 2023, 02:52:55 PM »
Subtitle - is there a way I'm missing to override Draw's drwGetTempPath?
It's presently calling GetTempPathA.
I added a graph to a nettalk app, copying one of the examples.
Works fine on my development machine.
Works fine on server when running as a service or run asAdministrator.
Crashes on server when not running as a service when I run the graph procedure. Error (shown in pic) says it's trying to create DrawStore.tmp in a folder that does not exist.
Yes, the app is mostly running as a service. And then it runs fine (using the windows\temp folder).
Or I can manifest the app with a requireAdministrator manifest and it works running as an exe on the server. But then I have to click through the UAC popup on my dev machine each time I compile and run.
It may just be that something is bolluxed on the server. SET says "my" temp path ends with \6
But that folder doesn't exist.
The GUI says my user's temp path just ends with \temp.
But this all seems rather fragile. It would be nice to have an option to tell Draw where to do its thing and not to encounter some servers where it can't make its temp folder work.
(Until, of course, NT 14's javascript graphs!)
Cheers,
Jane, writer of hyperbolic subject lines
It's presently calling GetTempPathA.
I added a graph to a nettalk app, copying one of the examples.
Works fine on my development machine.
Works fine on server when running as a service or run asAdministrator.
Crashes on server when not running as a service when I run the graph procedure. Error (shown in pic) says it's trying to create DrawStore.tmp in a folder that does not exist.
Yes, the app is mostly running as a service. And then it runs fine (using the windows\temp folder).
Or I can manifest the app with a requireAdministrator manifest and it works running as an exe on the server. But then I have to click through the UAC popup on my dev machine each time I compile and run.
It may just be that something is bolluxed on the server. SET says "my" temp path ends with \6
But that folder doesn't exist.
The GUI says my user's temp path just ends with \temp.
But this all seems rather fragile. It would be nice to have an option to tell Draw where to do its thing and not to encounter some servers where it can't make its temp folder work.
(Until, of course, NT 14's javascript graphs!)
Cheers,
Jane, writer of hyperbolic subject lines
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: open submenu indented?
« on: January 14, 2023, 11:41:42 AM »
If you're trying to do what's shown in the first pic, Sean, what I've found works is to set each of the "calling" menu items to open to the right (second pic).
jf
jf
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Hiding password (etc) in web server log
« on: December 24, 2022, 06:56:40 PM »
Grinchly Greetings, Obi Wan!
I was interested in the solution you worked out for masking passwords in the web server log display during this week's webinar.
What you showed mostly works.
BUT? it still leaks passwords BEFORE they get to the AddLog section of code.
As soon as you move around in the log and then come back to the POST, the value has been masked by the code you added in AddLog. But initially it displays on the screen.
If there were an embed available in StartNewThread, before the ?web:LastPost is first displayed, that initial display of sensitive data could be avoided.
[Edited to add - would you add an embed before that DISPLAY statement ? ]
Of course, that requires running the filtering code twice
Holiday Cheers,
Jane
I was interested in the solution you worked out for masking passwords in the web server log display during this week's webinar.
What you showed mostly works.
BUT? it still leaks passwords BEFORE they get to the AddLog section of code.
As soon as you move around in the log and then come back to the POST, the value has been masked by the code you added in AddLog. But initially it displays on the screen.
If there were an embed available in StartNewThread, before the ?web:LastPost is first displayed, that initial display of sensitive data could be avoided.
[Edited to add - would you add an embed before that DISPLAY statement ? ]
Of course, that requires running the filtering code twice
Holiday Cheers,
Jane
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Load balancing
« on: December 21, 2022, 09:04:52 AM »
Thanks, Don.
Coincidentally, Gordon did a ClarionLive webinar last Friday where he showed an overview of his current architecture.
As Bruce indicated, Gordon has moved a lot of stuff into the javascript app in the browser (which is something like 300K lines of code) to minimize use of the session queue.
What session queue he IS using is on a separate database. https://www.youtube.com/live/6x1wvtstK74?t=2806
But he also has a large-ish team of programmers and many years of coding underlying the app.
Coincidentally, Gordon did a ClarionLive webinar last Friday where he showed an overview of his current architecture.
As Bruce indicated, Gordon has moved a lot of stuff into the javascript app in the browser (which is something like 300K lines of code) to minimize use of the session queue.
What session queue he IS using is on a separate database. https://www.youtube.com/live/6x1wvtstK74?t=2806
But he also has a large-ish team of programmers and many years of coding underlying the app.
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Load balancing
« on: December 20, 2022, 10:43:51 AM »It does not address sessions.
So how do you deal with that, Don?
Does Nginx just always direct session xyz to the same instance that session used for the previous call(s) ?
Cheers,
Jane
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Load balancing
« on: December 19, 2022, 12:02:36 PM »but how would it be done with one of the existing tools? do you have example, documentation or webminar?Gordon Holfelder did a webinar on this for the CIDC 2019 conference, which is still online if you purchased that conference:
https://www.cidc2019.com/Presentations#LoadBalancingaWebserverAcrossMultipleInstances
As I recall, one of his challenges was sharing session values across multiple web servers.
The Net Sessions interface that Bruce introduced in NT 12 should make sharing session values easier.
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: My tip broke my menu
« on: December 07, 2022, 05:39:42 PM »
Thanks!