Re: [Treebase-devel] Reviewer access broken

[Shyket, H. <har...@ya...>]

I don't think it may be the caching as it seems to redirect to the access violation page.  Can we look at another study review to see if this is happening?

My guess is that it may have to do with how the session is being stored and access in the load balanced environment.    What do you think Mattison?

Harry Shyket
Digital Media Specialist
Yale University Peabody Museum
ph. 203-436-9428
har...@ya...

From: William Piel [mailto:wil...@ya...]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 7:46 PM
To: Mattison Ward
Cc: TreeBASE devel; Shyket, Harry
Subject: Reviewer access broken


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


I enabled load balancing for downloads yesterday afternoon on the
production treebase.org<http://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