Re: [AOLSERVER] 4.0 build problems (nsoracle, etc.)

2003-02-15 Thread Don Baccus
) -#include nsdb.h Ah, that did the trick. Thanks Jeff! Will the source be fixed for the final release? -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org

Re: [AOLSERVER] init.tcl

2003-02-19 Thread Don Baccus
-behaved, anyway. That it's safe to do a make distclean after a make install. We already have a world convinced that Apache is the One True Webserver. Little kinks like this are the kind of thing that might alienate someone casually investigating AOLserver. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http

Re: [AOLSERVER] init.tcl

2003-02-23 Thread Don Baccus
in the past, it's just been so long that I guess I forgot why!) -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org I. To remove yourself from this list: Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the BODY of your message: signoff

[AOLSERVER] Tcl bytecode caching for Tcl pages

2003-02-23 Thread Don Baccus
. So we (the OpenACS folk) could tell folks they can run with stock AOLserver 4.0 while making the caching version of file.tcl available for those who want it, then lobby for its inclusion in AOLserver 4.1. That would be the conservative approach ... Thoughts? -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http

Re: [AOLSERVER] Tcl bytecode caching for Tcl pages

2003-02-23 Thread Don Baccus
Rob Mayoff wrote: +-- On Feb 23, Don Baccus said: The code's been used successfully in many sites so seems stable. But has it been proven to be effective? I haven't seen any numbers. I helped implement it, but I don't recall that we (ArsDigita) ever did a serious analysis of whether

Re: [AOLSERVER] Tcl bytecode caching for Tcl pages

2003-02-24 Thread Don Baccus
Bas Scheffers wrote: (Tcl only compiles code likely to be reused, which is procs, I expect the bytecode cache to do the same) The bytecode cache caches the top-level code for the page itself, that was the point. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http

Re: [AOLSERVER] ADP: are if's possible?

2003-03-16 Thread Don Baccus
into a tcl script and executed. Someone's working on making the templating system and the OpenACS database API available as standalone libraries that will work directly with AOLserver. Not sure when this will be finished ... -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_cache and virtual hosting ...

2003-03-15 Thread Don Baccus
a server-wide cache but I don't personally have time to work on it and it's not something we need to virtual host multiple OpenACS sites. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org I. To remove yourself from this list: Send a message to [EMAIL

Re: [AOLSERVER] Best way for user authentication?

2003-03-18 Thread Don Baccus
that does not have and client-facing pages at all, only admin pages and a good API documentation. Wheels were made to be reinvented, true enough :) -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_cache and virtual hosting ...

2003-03-15 Thread Don Baccus
Zoran Vasiljevic wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2003 16:12, Don Baccus wrote: So ... my questions are simple. Who maintains ns_cache these days? Who has commit rights to CVS? How do I get these modifications accepted? Should the maintainer (Rob?) review my changes? Don, Since I'm about

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_cache and virtual hosting ...

2003-03-15 Thread Don Baccus
to map the name to a cache pointer. You initializing that hashtable and an associated static lock the first time the module is loaded, and only the first time ... -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org I. To remove yourself from this list: Send

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_cache and virtual hosting ...

2003-03-15 Thread Don Baccus
test sites into one config script, ran AOLserver with the result and both sites came up with no problem. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org I. To remove yourself from this list: Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_cache and virtual hosting ...

2003-03-16 Thread Don Baccus
, it will be simple, if it weren't for the fact that the OpenACS project's taking 100% of my time at the moment I would be more than glad to finish up this last remaining piece. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_cache and virtual hosting ...

2003-03-16 Thread Don Baccus
to my -serverwide? -global? -serverwide it is. I agree. -global would be confusing because of the existing terminology in the code and documentation. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_cache and virtual hosting ...

2003-03-16 Thread Don Baccus
on the ns_cache. It is in the SF and I've made the 1.5 version in the Files section. The new option is set to -serverwide boolean if you ever need it. Thanks, Zoran! -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver 4.x and MacOSX: cwd problem

2003-03-27 Thread Don Baccus
if it were documented. Does Apple have a process for filing bug reports that would give us some hope one of their Unix hackers will see it? -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver 4.x and MacOSX: cwd problem

2003-03-27 Thread Don Baccus
leave the process cwd changed. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list: http://www.aolserver.com/listserv.html List information and options: http://listserv.aol.com/

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_eval is EVIL in AOLserver 4

2003-06-05 Thread Don Baccus
On Thursday 05 June 2003 07:36 pm, Nathan Folkman wrote: We could rename the command to be ns_evil. :-) You've got my vote! Actually ... as currently implemented it would probably be better to just rename it ns_synch or the like. global foo set foo bar ns_eval {} is equivalent to ns_eval {

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_eval is EVIL in AOLserver 4

2003-06-06 Thread Don Baccus
On Friday 06 June 2003 02:53 am, Zoran Vasiljevic wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 11:48, you wrote: Zoran Vasiljevic wrote: I would love to hear some other oppinions. But, I'm already thinking about what we'd need to do so that both approaches are available. My simple guess would be

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_eval is EVIL in AOLserver 4

2003-06-06 Thread Don Baccus
On Friday 06 June 2003 08:15 am, Zoran Vasiljevic wrote: My initial idea was to simply make the Nsd as static package by doing Tcl_StaticPackage() at the end of InitInterp() and then do from Tcl: set interp [interp create] $interp eval {load Nsd} $interp eval [ns_ictl get] and so on...

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_eval is EVIL in AOLserver 4

2003-06-06 Thread Don Baccus
On Friday 06 June 2003 08:12 am, Lamar Owen wrote: On Thursday 05 June 2003 22:28, Don Baccus wrote: The implementation in AOLserver 4 is very, very different. The script is executed then the ENTIRE set of namespaces and procs are saved to the server's tcl.script pointer. Argh! One

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_eval is EVIL in AOLserver 4

2003-06-06 Thread Don Baccus
On Friday 06 June 2003 11:54 am, Vinod Kurup wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:12:43 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: So, when a patch for OpenACS that doesn't use ns_eval is ready, those of you who have problems with the nsdb0 stuff, if yu could please determine whether the elimination of ns_eval fixes

[AOLSERVER] Net access for patients ...

2003-06-06 Thread Don Baccus
On Friday 06 June 2003 06:13 pm, you wrote: On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 05:42 PM, Don Baccus wrote: (for those of you not part of the OpenACS community, Vinod is a practicing MD. Isn't Open Source great?) Open Source definitely is great. I can't wait for the day that my patients come

Re: [AOLSERVER] Net access for patients ...

2003-06-06 Thread Don Baccus
On Friday 06 June 2003 06:27 pm, you wrote: A guy I know - a research biochemist who is very fit and in his mid-fifties but has been having episodes of skipping heart beats, racing etc - was given a really cool device by OHSU, our local med school. Sorry I meant to e-mail that to Vinod

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_eval is EVIL in AOLserver 4

2003-06-07 Thread Don Baccus
On Saturday 07 June 2003 09:59 am, Zoran Vasiljevic wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:35, Don Baccus wrote: Right, if you skip the traces you don't get the module-defined ns_* commands, we're on the same page here ... as far as this bit goes anyway. After thinking again and again, I see two

[AOLSERVER] ns_eval is EVIL in AOLserver 4

2003-06-05 Thread Don Baccus
Here's the documentation on the aolserver.com website, which describes how it works in AOLserver 3: ns_eval evaluates the Tcl passed in to this function. The Tcl is evaluated in all the Tcl interpreters for this virtual server. You can use this command to maintain global variables. For example,

Re: [AOLSERVER] nspostgres driver problem?

2003-06-27 Thread Don Baccus
On Friday 27 June 2003 02:47 pm, you wrote: Hello All, I have an AOLserver installed on NetBSD-current with Zoran's help. It works fine but I can't connect to a postgres database. The PostgreSQL version is 7.3.3, the AOLserver version is 4b8, the nspostgres driver version is 4.0-beta1. After

Re: [AOLSERVER] aolserver failure under load test on Mac OS X?

2003-06-30 Thread Don Baccus
On Monday 30 June 2003 09:00 am, Kevin Murphy wrote: I have been testing apache 1.3.27, webstar 5.?, and aolserver 3.5.6 4.0B8 with ab and http_load on Mac OS X 10.2.5. I have noticed that when I raise the concurrent requests much above 12, ab and http_load both indicate lots of errors for

Re: [AOLSERVER] compiling postgresql driver on os x

2003-07-18 Thread Don Baccus
On Friday 18 July 2003 11:32 am, derek wrote: I'm running mac os 10.2.6 and postgresql 7.3.3. I've tried compiling the nspostgres driver from aolserver and the postgres driver from openacs -- both fail. Are they compatible with 7.3.3? Are you sure you've got the include paths right? I've

Re: [AOLSERVER] stored procs and AOLServer

2003-08-27 Thread Don Baccus
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 05:41 pm, Dossy wrote: On 2003.08.26, Roberto Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenACS and its database API (which builds upon AOLserver's API) has code to do that, including returning a list of ns_sets.

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle 9i

2003-09-17 Thread Don Baccus
bind variables. I'm assuming this requires a driver change. Does anyone have a patch? Try asking on our OpenACS site - a couple of folks have been moving the toolkit to Oracle 9i and have it working, and haven't mentioned any driver change being necessary ... -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http

Re: [AOLSERVER] External Interbase/Firebird Driver?

2003-11-10 Thread Don Baccus
. Try it ... I think you'll like it. The PG lists are very helpful, and for AOLserver + PG issues both this list and the forums over at our OpenACS project are full of people who use the two together day in and day out, for paying client websites. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.furfly.net

Re: [AOLSERVER] Selecting an empty (null) oracle-clob crashes AOLserver on Linux

2003-11-12 Thread Don Baccus
per se (just the Oracle client library) ... if you have purchased Oracle support you should be able to find out the exact version which fixes this. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.furfly.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove

Re: [AOLSERVER] OpenMSG software

2003-11-22 Thread Don Baccus
on the general openacs.org QA forum, in the last two weeks. If you want to visit our site and poke through old messages you'll find his e-mail address. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.furfly.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself

Re: [AOLSERVER] Other languages in AOLserver (was: ANN: New project leader for AOLserver)

2004-05-21 Thread Don Baccus
, supporting too many technologies may make AOLserver look like a pathetic wannabe. Very, very true. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.furfly.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email

Re: [AOLSERVER] Officially dropping support for nsxml?

2004-07-02 Thread Don Baccus
current releases. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.furfly.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLSERVER Digest - 10 Aug 2004 to 11 Aug 2004 (#2004-171)

2004-08-13 Thread Don Baccus
. When I want to change the look and feel of every form in an OpenACS site, to meet the design criteria of a client, I change one file and the templating system takes care of the rest. It's a bit less work than visiting every .adp page in the system looking for form tags... -- Don Baccus Portland

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLSERVER Digest - 10 Aug 2004 to 11 Aug 2004 (#2004-171)

2004-08-13 Thread Don Baccus
on a regular basis. Also, some of them have even been partially addressed already, e.g.: Originally the templating system was standalone... -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.furfly.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from

Re: [AOLSERVER] Support for non-HTTP protocols

2004-08-17 Thread Don Baccus
on the table when people using OpenSSL can't run AOLserver 4 in a production environment? -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.furfly.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [AOLSERVER] Support for non-HTTP protocols

2004-08-17 Thread Don Baccus
information is passed to or taken from the user's browser. And, yes, I realize OpenSSL isn't part of the AOLserver core proper, but it's importance is such that it might as well be. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.furfly.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http

Re: [AOLSERVER] Support for non-HTTP protocols

2004-08-17 Thread Don Baccus
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 11:51 am, Dossy Shiobara wrote: Janine has offered to help, but cannot provide access to her production environments where the problem is occurring. Sloan's going to try to reproduce it in the next week or two, at which time I plan to dig around in gdb ... -- Don

Re: [AOLSERVER] PostgreSQL near-lockups

2006-01-17 Thread Don Baccus
, as well. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.furfly.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave

Re: [AOLSERVER] PostgreSQL near-lockups

2006-01-18 Thread Don Baccus
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:05 pm, you wrote: Am I on the right track with the following? I think so, yes. The #1 question to answer is are the long-running threads caused by an application query, or something internal to Postgres? -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.furfly.net, http

Re: [AOLSERVER] how do I

2008-03-18 Thread Don Baccus
On Mar 18, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Xavier Bourguignon wrote: I have a URL mapped to a Tcl procedure like this: ns_register_proc POST /login login in my adp page called index.adp I have this: form action =/login method=post username: input type=text name=usernamebr password: input

Re: [AOLSERVER] how do I

2008-03-18 Thread Don Baccus
On Mar 18, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Xavier Bourguignon wrote: Ok, but what do I do if they do exist? How do I say to aolserver that I want to serve the menu.adp file? If { ...login ok ... } { ns_returnredirect someplace-interesting } Maybe I'm missing something ... -- AOLserver -

Re: [AOLSERVER] how do I

2008-03-18 Thread Don Baccus
On Mar 18, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Xavier Bourguignon wrote: Thanks Don and Darren, I will look at the info. I just find it strange that I have to REDIRECT to another url, to me redirect means to go away from the current context to go to another, usually another domain, but i may be wrong and my

Re: [AOLSERVER] globals

2008-03-19 Thread Don Baccus
On Mar 19, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Xavier Bourguignon wrote: Hi, Is there a way to set a global which stays in memory for the life of the server and not just for the life of a request? nsv_* -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to

Re: [AOLSERVER] how do I

2008-03-19 Thread Don Baccus
On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Robert Seeger wrote: I've never been fond of the fact that AOLServer has no internal redirect mechanism. You can implement your own, in Tcl. We have one in OpenACS, but it's tied slightly to our way of mapping URLs to paths, and our template engine. But

Re: [AOLSERVER] Compiling 4.5 on Mac OS X 10.5 leopard issues

2008-03-22 Thread Don Baccus
On Mar 22, 2008, at 6:04 AM, Mark Aufflick wrote: Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93e7d0c8 strlen + 8 This is the 64-bit vs. 32-bit aolserver vs tcl problem people have mentioned in regard to 4.0.10 and 4.5 (4.0.1 compiles out of the box). Someone who has this

Re: [AOLSERVER] Compression

2008-04-11 Thread Don Baccus
. We want to be able to write code for distribution using ns_return, and allow those who deploy it to control whether gzip compression is used or not when they configure their service. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http

Re: [AOLSERVER] Compression

2008-04-11 Thread Don Baccus
uncompressed formats are compressed. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You

Re: [AOLSERVER] Compression

2008-04-12 Thread Don Baccus
Or worse. I hope it will result in a better solution than what's currently available in Apache. I think you meant to say different ... and simply being different is no reason to reject a perfectly good solution to the problem. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http

Re: [AOLSERVER] Compression

2008-04-13 Thread Don Baccus
shouting that the config approach wasn't sufficient. It suddenly appeared without discussion nor documentation. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL

Re: [AOLSERVER] Compression

2008-04-13 Thread Don Baccus
call to ns_returnz or whatever one wants to call it. Make the 99% case work easily. Don't be different than apache just because you want to be different. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself

Re: [AOLSERVER] aolserver and Pgtcl

2008-04-16 Thread Don Baccus
. :foo will reference the tcl var foo in the caller. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER

Re: [AOLSERVER] aolserver and Pgtcl

2008-04-16 Thread Don Baccus
this in ns_db. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject

Re: [AOLSERVER] aolserver and Pgtcl

2008-04-16 Thread Don Baccus
and real bind vars give protect against sql smuggling. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_db and bind variable support

2008-04-16 Thread Don Baccus
will work about as well as any other the optimizer might generate, and that the very first query happens to generate such a plan. And that you gather analyzer stats and clear the query plan cache fairly often ... Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org

Re: [AOLSERVER] tcl variables

2008-04-20 Thread Don Baccus
in the procedure should be available as the procedure is called within the adp. Ummm ... again, what's your programming background? Why would you expect a local variable to be available globally? Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http

Re: [AOLSERVER] tcl variables

2008-04-20 Thread Don Baccus
more effectively. But apparently you found my asking to be offensive. Oh, well. I won't bother trying to answer other questions you might have. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from

Re: [AOLSERVER] tcl variables

2008-04-20 Thread Don Baccus
experience, your response is most ungracious. You're being an asshole, frankly. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body

Re: [AOLSERVER] tcl variables

2008-04-21 Thread Don Baccus
/Tcl world. Not programming altogether. Keep digging that hole deeper, dude. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body

Re: [AOLSERVER] tcl variables

2008-04-21 Thread Don Baccus
On Apr 21, 2008, at 7:00 AM, Tom Jackson wrote: What is baffling is how, if you know no other languages, how you got AOLserver installed? Actually, I'm quite impressed he got as far as he did without any help ... congrats to xavier for that. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http

Re: [AOLSERVER] apology

2008-04-21 Thread Don Baccus
, though, OK? Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject

Re: [AOLSERVER] Custom server error page crash

2008-07-10 Thread Don Baccus
-] Error: return: failed to redirect 'PROPFIND /500.html': exceeded recursion limit of 3 I've seen the exceeded recursion limit error when the server receives WebDAV operators and no filter is registered to handle them. There are bots out there that probe sites ... Don Baccus http

Re: [AOLSERVER] Custom server error page crash

2008-07-10 Thread Don Baccus
retrieves properties for a resource identified by the request Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). The PROPFIND Method can be used on collection and property resources. 4.01 didn't die with this. 4.10 + does AFAIK Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org

Re: [AOLSERVER] Custom server error page crash

2008-07-10 Thread Don Baccus
time but have never tried tracking it down internally within AOLserver. Be nice if someone wanted to do that ... Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email

Re: [AOLSERVER] Data corruption with fastpath caching

2008-08-21 Thread Don Baccus
On Aug 21, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: I've remained silent on this issue because I didn't want to be accused of stifling the community, etc. ... End of discussion. Accused. Guilty. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOL + SQLite+nsproxy question

2009-02-28 Thread Don Baccus
aolserver/postgres-based e-learning software. So Jeff's suggestion of rebuilding against 4.5 is a good one. What kind of datatype errors are you getting in PG 8.3 in debian lenny? I use PG 8.3 w/o problems, but must admit I've built mine from source. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOL + SQLite+nsproxy question

2009-03-01 Thread Don Baccus
problem in passing, to explain his use of PG 8.1 not 8.3. I asked what datatype problem? out of curiousity, and he answered. Chill. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOL + SQLite+nsproxy question

2009-03-01 Thread Don Baccus
On Mar 1, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Alexey Pechnikov wrote: nspostgres doesn't work as you can see Huh. Tell that to those of us using it w/o problems. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOL + SQLite+nsproxy question

2009-03-01 Thread Don Baccus
it in a development project in which I was mentoring him. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF

Re: [AOLSERVER] segfaults problems are solved

2009-03-02 Thread Don Baccus
these packages from my repository. If you can find out who the debian maintainers for these packages are, would you mind telling them that the packages can be fixed by properly compiling them? I don't know if the maintainers are on the AOLserver list. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http

Re: [AOLSERVER] is it necessary

2009-10-15 Thread Don Baccus
On Oct 15, 2009, at 10:04 AM, nitin chandra wrote: Hi Everyone, Is it necessary to install OpenACS along with AoLserver? No, OpenACS is just a web toolkit that uses AOLserver, just as Django uses Apache. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver templating options

2009-10-26 Thread Don Baccus
. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field

Re: [AOLSERVER] Is this vulnerable to sql injection?

2009-12-04 Thread Don Baccus
$id. SQL smuggling fears gone forever ... Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email

Re: [AOLSERVER] Is this vulnerable to sql injection?

2009-12-04 Thread Don Baccus
On Dec 4, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Jeff Rogers wrote: Unfortunately the postgres driver doesn't protect against against dml injection. The bind variable emulation does. It essentially does the quoting that an earlier poster recommended one do manually. No muss, no fuss... Don Baccus

Re: [AOLSERVER] Is this vulnerable to sql injection?

2009-12-04 Thread Don Baccus
tcl page within directory www how do i fix it? Since you're doing this in an openacs instance, use the openacs db_* API. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send

Re: [AOLSERVER] Is this vulnerable to sql injection?

2009-12-05 Thread Don Baccus
solution suffices. Another problem is working with nulls. You can't quote null and postgresql distinguishes the empty string from null. Tcl doesn't implement the null concept. 'set foo ' sets foo to the empty string, not null. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http

Re: [AOLSERVER] Is this vulnerable to sql injection?

2009-12-05 Thread Don Baccus
for writing queries that work the same in both RDBMS's, which was the whole point of the exercise in the first place (safety against SQL smuggling is a nice side-effect, but was not the motivation for providing this in the driver). Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http

Re: [AOLSERVER] Is this vulnerable to sql injection?

2009-12-05 Thread Don Baccus
). For those of us writing queries to be shared between Oracle and PG, Oracle-compatible bindvar emulation is a virtue. But if it's an issue for the original poster, he shouldn't use the feature. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver

Re: [AOLSERVER] Is this vulnerable to sql injection?

2009-12-05 Thread Don Baccus
On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:13 PM, Tom Jackson wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Don Baccus dhog...@pacifier.com wrote: On Dec 4, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Tom Jackson wrote: The problem remains for other databases using the ns_db APIs. The quoting examples are general, but don't always work

Re: [AOLSERVER] Is this vulnerable to sql injection?

2009-12-06 Thread Don Baccus
it. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field

Re: [AOLSERVER] Is this vulnerable to sql injection?

2009-12-06 Thread Don Baccus
. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field

Re: [AOLSERVER] Is this vulnerable to sql injection?

2009-12-06 Thread Don Baccus
into the database safely though. Yes, indeed. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER

Re: [AOLSERVER] Is this vulnerable to sql injection?

2009-12-06 Thread Don Baccus
, the confusion in Oracle is bad ... Postgres still makes me use is null Better is to say SQL ... not Postgres - Postgres implements the standard. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list

Re: [AOLSERVER] hacking around

2011-06-06 Thread Don Baccus
that filter's not being run. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can

Re: [AOLSERVER] hacking around

2011-06-06 Thread Don Baccus
properly by rp_filter? Are there other aolserver bugs/inadequacies that openacs works around that could be improved? Not that I'm aware of at this point, though Gustaf Neuman of U Wien might have something. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org

Re: [AOLSERVER] hacking around

2011-06-06 Thread Don Baccus
of processing done in the request processor can be done). Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER

Re: [AOLSERVER] hacking around

2011-06-06 Thread Don Baccus
On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Andrew Piskorski wrote: On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 05:31:44PM -0700, Don Baccus wrote: (contrary to an opinion stated in a previous post, the request processor implementation is efficient, and isn't an indication that the implementer didn't understand AOLserver

Re: [AOLSERVER] hacking around

2011-06-06 Thread Don Baccus
shouldn't write filters, it should not provide the facility to write filters. QED and all that. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists

Re: [AOLSERVER] Aolserver Progress - Some few examples....

2011-08-04 Thread Don Baccus
are not facing Windows specific stuff, but somehow some general errors, mistakes that happen to manifest themselves only on Windows (64). Not in this case, no, that's perfectly reasonable Unix code. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http

Re: [AOLSERVER] Aolserver Progress - Some few examples....

2011-08-04 Thread Don Baccus
that … but I'm not wrong about Unix fds being ints) Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email

Re: [AOLSERVER] Aolserver Progress - Some few examples....

2011-08-04 Thread Don Baccus
in a way that makes both Unix and Windows happy if you'll provide one. Meanwhile, quit complaining because I pointed out that, in Unix, int pipefd[2] is the correct declaration for a pipe. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http