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On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:19:18PM +0100, Jon Foster wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just checked quite a lot of changes into CVS.  Highlights are:
> 
> - On error, CGI functions should send an informative HTML page back to the
> user, rather than crashing JunkBuster with log_error(LOG_LEVEL_FATAL, ...).
> 
> - A lot more checks for memory allocation failing
> 
> - A working actionsfile editor (at long last).  The file it edits is
> hard-coded as "edit.action", in the "confdir" set in your configuration
> file.  So far this has only been tested under IE 5.5, although it should
> work under any modern browser.

I get this in both NS and Mozilla:

Actions file not found

  The actions file you are trying to edit (edit.action) does not
  exist, or cannot be read. 

Probably PEBKAC, but I haven't found it yet. I don't see it in CVS, so
I guess it is dynamically genterated? If I stick an empty file in
confdir, it seems to work. At least, it fires up. Cool, too.

> - You can now toggle JunkBuster remotely from a CGI page.  This is
> equivalent to the Windows statusbar icon, but it's cross-platform.

Extra cool! This is something I've been meaning to ask about.

A question on this. Is the only way to access IJB internal pages via 
http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/ ? That has confused me a bit
since it looks to be a remote URL, but I guess IJB traps that? I need
this in the docs somewhere. Is this URL temporary? 

Also, on the 'bookmarklets', nothing at all happens on Mozilla here
(Linux recent nightly). NS though it seems to work. java* is on.

-- 
Hal Burgiss

Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > - You can now toggle JunkBuster remotely from a CGI page.  This is
> > equivalent to the Windows statusbar icon, but it's cross-platform.
> 
> Extra cool! This is something I've been meaning to ask about.

I can only support that: this is way cool! Well done Jon!

> A question on this. Is the only way to access IJB internal pages via
> http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/ ? That has confused me a bit

An alternative is http://i.j.b/ which does not look like a remote
URL. That is the main reason, why I would propose to only use i.j.b
as an URL to intercept. Ok for the rest of the team?

BTW: I have run autoheader, autoconf, configure and make (4 things!),
and put up a new 2.9.9 SuSE rpm version. Have fun,

Stefan
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:17:38PM +0200, Stefan Waldherr wrote:
> 
> An alternative is http://i.j.b/ which does not look like a remote
> URL. That is the main reason, why I would propose to only use i.j.b
> as an URL to intercept. Ok for the rest of the team?

Yea, that strikes me as better (less confusing). I just updated all
docs. Oh well, back at it. 

-- 
Hal Burgiss

Hi Hal,

Hal wrote:
[snip]
> > actionsfile editor
[snip]
> Actions file not found
>
>   The actions file you are trying to edit (edit.action) does not
>   exist, or cannot be read.
>
> Probably PEBKAC, but I haven't found it yet.
Yep.  My keyboard, my chair ;-)  I should have said that to
use the actions file editor, you need to rename "actionsfile" to
"edit.action", and change the setting in "config" to point to the
renamed file.  It was late last night :P

Cheers for testing it.  :-)

> A question on this. Is the only way to access IJB internal pages via
> http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/ ?
Not the only way, lazy typists (i.e. me) prefer "http://i.j.b/"

>  That has confused me a bit
> since it looks to be a remote URL, but I guess IJB traps that?
Yep, that's right.  In the same way that JunkBuster can block
adverts with a HTML page, JunkBuster handles any URLs
beginning "http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/" or "http://i.j.b/".

"i.j.b" is used because it's short and easy to remember and type.

"http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/" is intended for use
anywhere we're actually going to provide a hyperlink to it
(e.g. the website or docs).  If someone who isn't running
JunkBuster clicks on it then they'll get an error page explaining
what's happened and containing links to find out more about
JunkBuster, rather than a wierd "host not found" error message.
(This works because ijbswa.sourceforge.net is the project
web server, so I've set it up to handle requests for config/).

Functionally, there's no difference whatsoever between the
two prefixes - http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/toggle
and http://i.j.b/toggle lead to exactly the same page.

> I need this in the docs somewhere.
Yes please!  Can you make it clear that http://i.j.b is the
easiest way to access the configuration interface?

> Is this URL temporary?
No, there's no intention of ever changing them, unless
- We rename the project (unlikely) or
- Sourceforge stops hosting the project (even more unlikely).

Regards,

Jon Foster
--
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the ground and miss." - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hal Burgiss" <hal@...>
To: "Junkbuster Developers" <ijbswa-developers@...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [ijbswa-devel] Commit...


> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:19:18PM +0100, Jon Foster wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just checked quite a lot of changes into CVS.  Highlights are:
> >
> > - On error, CGI functions should send an informative HTML page back to
the
> > user, rather than crashing JunkBuster with log_error(LOG_LEVEL_FATAL,
...).
> >
> > - A lot more checks for memory allocation failing
> >
> > - A working actionsfile editor (at long last).  The file it edits is
> > hard-coded as "edit.action", in the "confdir" set in your configuration
> > file.  So far this has only been tested under IE 5.5, although it should
> > work under any modern browser.
>
> I get this in both NS and Mozilla:
>
> Actions file not found
>
>   The actions file you are trying to edit (edit.action) does not
>   exist, or cannot be read.
>
> Probably PEBKAC, but I haven't found it yet. I don't see it in CVS, so
> I guess it is dynamically genterated? If I stick an empty file in
> confdir, it seems to work. At least, it fires up. Cool, too.
>
> > - You can now toggle JunkBuster remotely from a CGI page.  This is
> > equivalent to the Windows statusbar icon, but it's cross-platform.
>
> Extra cool! This is something I've been meaning to ask about.
>
> A question on this. Is the only way to access IJB internal pages via
> http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/ ? That has confused me a bit
> since it looks to be a remote URL, but I guess IJB traps that? I need
> this in the docs somewhere. Is this URL temporary?
>
> Also, on the 'bookmarklets', nothing at all happens on Mozilla here
> (Linux recent nightly). NS though it seems to work. java* is on.
>
> --
> Hal Burgiss
>
>
>
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:14:42PM +0100, Jon Foster wrote:

> Yep.  My keyboard, my chair ;-)  I should have said that to use the
> actions file editor, you need to rename "actionsfile" to
> "edit.action", and change the setting in "config" to point to the
> renamed file.  It was late last night :P
> 
> Cheers for testing it.  :-)

Well, now I've got questions, questions, questions...so we have two
config files now? Or is edit.actions going to replace actionsfile? 
 
> Functionally, there's no difference whatsoever between the
> two prefixes - http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/toggle
> and http://i.j.b/toggle lead to exactly the same page.

Some of these pages still expand to the longer form. For a good while,
I actually thought the pages were actually coming off sourceforge :/
 
> > I need this in the docs somewhere.
> Yes please!  Can you make it clear that http://i.j.b is the
> easiest way to access the configuration interface?

Yes, done. 
 
> > Is this URL temporary?
> No, there's no intention of ever changing them, unless
> - We rename the project (unlikely) or
> - Sourceforge stops hosting the project (even more unlikely).

What about sourceforge goes away?  Or changes name? Sorry...to be
cynical :/

-- 
Hal Burgiss