[Treebase-devel] Reviewer access broken

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

On Dec 7, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Mattison Ward wrote:

> I enabled load balancing for downloads yesterday afternoon on the
> production treebase.org site.  I was able to request every study in
> nexml format overnight without causing any issues.  Not every download
> completed since I used a 15 minute timeout in my download script, but
> the site kept responding during the entire procedure.  Please let me
> know if you hear of any problems.

Hi all,

A problem seems to have cropped up: the reviewer access codes appears to be broken. These are special codes that allow data still "in progress" or "ready" to be accessed by the referees of manuscripts in review.  If you follow this URL, you're able to browse through information about a submission that is "in progress":

http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S13742?x-access-code=dfe493384bc32ede886fdcb0ba9bb17c&format=html

But if you try to download anything, you get an "Access forbidden" message. e.g.:

http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S13742?format=nexus&x-access-code=dfe493384bc32ede886fdcb0ba9bb17c

Somehow I vaguely recall that the complexities of our access code system meant that load balancing might cause a problem. 

Harry: do you recall some of the issues regarding this system? I think it had to do with caching, no? 

regards,

Bill