Re: [Treebase-devel] TreeBASE malfunction

[Mattison W. <mat...@ne...>]

I haven't started to set up load balancing - we are still on a single
tomcat server for now.

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Shyket, Harry <har...@ya...> wrote:
> Could this be an issue with the move to  load balancing?   It could be that
> it is creating new session ids moving from logged out to logged in and vice
> versa.  That may send it off to a different TreeBASE instance.
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> If so, then we should consider moving the session data to the database.
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> Harry Shyket
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> Digital Media Specialist
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> Yale University Peabody Museum
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> ph. 203-436-9428
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> har...@ya...
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> From: William Piel [mailto:wil...@ya...]
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 9:17 AM
> To: NESCent Issue Tracker (help)
> Cc: TreeBASE devel; Michael Jones
> Subject: [Treebase-devel] TreeBASE malfunction
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> Something bizarre seems to be happening to TreeBASE -- it was not a problem
> as late as 7/30, but it seems to be a problem as of 8/5. I'm not sure what
> happened between 7/30 and 8/5, but I'm now getting the following new
> symptoms:
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> - Normally, when I click the "log out" link, I can log out. Now it still
> behaves as though I'm logged in even after clicking "log out".
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> - With the "Submit" button, I am normally required to log in, and then after
> successfully logging in I'm normally directed to a list of my existing
> submissions. Now after logging in I'm immediately presented with the login
> screen again. (but if I click the "Search" button I'm offered a
> "Submissions" tab, so I can get to this that way).
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> - Normally, if I'm logged in and I click the "Citations" link, I get to see
> the citation metadata for my submission, now I get another "log in" screen
> regardless of the fact that I'm already logged in.
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> Emptying my local cache and blocking browser caching does not solve the
> problem. Switching from Safari to FireFox, Camino, etc, also solves nothing.
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> My sense is that this problem comes from server-side caching that's gone out
> of control. The only caching we should do is for links that pull data, e.g.:
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> http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S1000?format=nexml
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> http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S1000?format=nexus
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> http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/matrix/TB2:M553?format=nexus
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> http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/matrix/TB2:M553?format=nexml
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> http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/tree/TB2:Tr4105?format=nexus
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> http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/tree/TB2:Tr4105?format=nexml
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> … which I think means redirecting to URLs that look like:
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> /treebase-web/search/downloadAStudy.html
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> /treebase-web/search/study/anyObjectAsRDF.rdf
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> /treebase-web/search/study/summary.html
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> /treebase-web/search/downloadANexusFile.html
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> /treebase-web/search/downloadAMatrix.html
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> /treebase-web/search/downloadATree.html
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> /treebase-web/search/downloadAnAnalysisStep.html
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> But we don't want it to cache these:
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> http://treebase.org/treebase-web/search/studySearch.html
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> http://treebase.org/treebase-web/search/treeSearch.html
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> http://treebase.org/treebase-web/search/matrixSearch.html
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> http://treebase.org/treebase-web/search/taxonSearch.html
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> .. because the results are unstable. Also, we don't want to cache the user
> and admin pages, such as these:
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> http://treebase.org/treebase-web/user/submissionList.html
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> http://treebase.org/treebase-web/user/citationForm.html
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> (etc)
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> or these:
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> http://treebase.org/treebase-web/admin/administrationPage.html
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> http://treebase.org/treebase-web/admin/readyStateStudies.html
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> (etc)
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