[web2py] json parsing and db insert problem

2014-07-25 Thread Yebach
Hello OK can smbd. explains this S4!#T to me. I am sending json string from my view to controller. in request.vars['value'] there is a string /dict and for easier handling I want to convert it to a dict. Now this code works. def saveAsFormData(): import json #data =

[web2py] Re: The scheduler eats Windows .... (lol)

2014-07-25 Thread Niphlod
that's probably why then. in that configuration killing the master process leaves zombies behind,. On Thursday, July 24, 2014 6:37:29 PM UTC+2, Tim Richardson wrote: I used nssm and added four instances of the appname to the command line to create multiple workers. -- Resources: -

Re: [web2py] json parsing and db insert problem

2014-07-25 Thread Manuele Pesenti
Il 25/07/14 09:22, Yebach ha scritto: type 'exceptions.TypeError' expected string or buffer in line data_dict = json.loads(data) WHY?? why does insert or smth crashes it on line before it is executed??? can you paste a print of your data variable value just before the code

Re: [web2py] json parsing and db insert problem

2014-07-25 Thread Vid Ogris
Found the problem The error was the second call for json object when I got an error in console, so I went to check the error folder in app. Looks like I have a date parse problems. 2014-07-25 10:08 GMT+02:00 Manuele Pesenti manuele.pese...@gmail.com: Il 25/07/14 09:22, Yebach ha scritto:

[web2py] Password fields fine tuning

2014-07-25 Thread Louis Amon
I'm trying to improve user exprerience on my website and I noticed a rather annoying behavior on password fields : If I type a password longer than 8 characters and somehow my form fails (some other field didn't validate), my password gets replaced by in request.vars.password. For

[web2py] Re: Can not import copy_reg

2014-07-25 Thread Richard
nginx will need a VPS so i'll stick to CGI for prototyping and buy some time for a new hosting service. In the book an option for Some web hosting services do not support mod_wsgi. In this case, we must use Apache as a proxy and forward all incoming requests to the web2py built-in web server

[web2py] Re: Password fields fine tuning

2014-07-25 Thread Niphlod
so you really want the webpage to return the actual password instead of asterisks ? it's a big security risk, no matter what user experience says. On Friday, July 25, 2014 10:53:40 AM UTC+2, Louis Amon wrote: I'm trying to improve user exprerience on my website and I noticed a rather

Re: [web2py] Password fields fine tuning

2014-07-25 Thread Louis Amon
I don't see much of a security threat here. What's the worst-case scenario ? If you take a look at airbnb.com, their registration form keeps your typed password even if you fail validation on other fields. If a website that big can do it then surely my small website will pull though, don't you

Re: [web2py] Password fields fine tuning

2014-07-25 Thread Willoughby
A simple google search will yield people complaining about their host accounts getting hacked on airbnb. Just because someone or something large 'does it that way' doesn't mean it's a best practice! On Friday, July 25, 2014 9:08:00 AM UTC-4, Louis Amon wrote: I don’t see much of a security

Re: [web2py] Password fields fine tuning

2014-07-25 Thread Louis Amon
We're all developers here so I couldn't agree more. Still, I'm running a commercial website so I'm a slave to what my users want. As far as my customers are concerned, security comes second after ease of use... Anyway, you have to admit that the examples I gave in the first post are misleading

[web2py] Re: Help me stop bashing me head on keyboard...

2014-07-25 Thread Anthony
On Thursday, July 24, 2014 9:55:10 PM UTC-4, Jesse Ferguson wrote: Oh and the conditional problem is that I would like to populate items, Like if you chose a city that's in the database it would auto populate the state input because the city table has a reference to the state.. See

Re: [web2py] Password fields fine tuning

2014-07-25 Thread Willoughby
*I can see one : erasing input fields after each validation failure (blank fields are less misleading). Do you see other ?* That's the one I've always understood to be the most secure - blank all the fields and don't indicate which field failed. On Friday, July 25, 2014 9:32:03 AM UTC-4, Louis

Re: [web2py] Password fields fine tuning

2014-07-25 Thread Anthony
I think common practice is to leave password fields blank after a login failure so the password must be re-entered. In any case, I cannot replicate either behavior you describe using the standard web2p Auth forms. When I have a failed login, the entire login form is reloaded emtpy. When I

Re: [web2py] Password fields fine tuning

2014-07-25 Thread Louis Amon
@Anthony: Indeed, I forgot to add that I'm using auth forms through ajax via LOAD. The problem may be due to ajax's JSON conversion of request.vars. Le 25 juil. 2014 à 15:52, Anthony abasta...@gmail.com a écrit : I think common practice is to leave password fields blank after a login failure

Re: [web2py] Password fields fine tuning

2014-07-25 Thread Anthony
I still cannot replicate the behavior you observe. Can you show your code or attach a minimal app that demonstrates the behavior? Anthony On Friday, July 25, 2014 9:56:38 AM UTC-4, Louis Amon wrote: @Anthony: Indeed, I forgot to add that I’m using auth forms through ajax via LOAD. The

[web2py] Re: What can cause some of my extra fields to be missing from auth.user?

2014-07-25 Thread Leonel Câmara
Do you guys need an example application where this problems happens? -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because

[web2py] Re: Help me stop bashing me head on keyboard...

2014-07-25 Thread Leonel Câmara
Jesse here's an example of way to do it I posted a long time ago: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/z_lGYsO6LKE/mDNm3DQ4DVUJ -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) -

Re: [web2py] Password fields fine tuning

2014-07-25 Thread Louis Amon
After much research I found the trigger to replicate the issue : db.auth_user.password.widget = lambda k,v: SQLFORM.widgets.password.widget(k , v, _id=login_password, _class=input-basic input-200) If you type a password longer than 8 characters and the validation fails, your password will be

Re: [web2py] Easy to Understand SQLFORM.grid Custom Search

2014-07-25 Thread JoeCodeswell
Dear villas, You said: I suppose that my proposal to use shlex would really apply to Peter's suggestion. I guess it might also be considered for use in the build_query function of sqlhtml.py. Shlex seems like a great way of using quotes to contain search phrases. I guess Google

Re: [web2py] Password fields fine tuning

2014-07-25 Thread Anthony
I still don't see the behavior for login, but for registration, you can try: db.auth_user.password.widget = lambda k,v: SQLFORM.widgets.password.widget(k , None, _id=login_password, _class=input-basic input-200) Anthony On Friday, July 25, 2014 10:35:18 AM UTC-4, Louis Amon wrote: After

Re: [web2py] Auto update db records behaviour per input field on release (AJAX)

2014-07-25 Thread Derek
Well, I like your idea. Do you think you could post it to web2pyslices? On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 8:16:12 PM UTC-7, Francisco Ribeiro wrote: Derek, that bit where you mention hooking run-time validation to be saved, is pretty much what I’m doing in my post. You need to consider that you might

Re: [web2py] json parsing and db insert problem

2014-07-25 Thread Derek
I don't get it. Why exactly are you passing around json? Your usage doesn't warrant it, and it looks like it is causing you problems. Why not send it like regular x-www-form-urlencoded? On Friday, July 25, 2014 1:17:11 AM UTC-7, Yebach wrote: Found the problem The error was the second call

[web2py] Re: error(10053, 'An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine')

2014-07-25 Thread Derek
Glad you fixed it, sorry to hear you are stuck with mySQL. your my.cnf file controls how many connections are allowed. On Thursday, July 24, 2014 9:34:20 PM UTC-7, Dmitry Ermolaev wrote: SOLVED! I update mySQL to 5.6.19 vers! понедельник, 14 июля 2014 г., 15:06:03 UTC+4 пользователь

[web2py] Re: Managing 600MB size files on Google Cloud with web2py

2014-07-25 Thread Derek
Look up the maximum entity size, I believe it's around 1MB, so that would make storing the data in the Cloud Datastore or as a blob, impossible. On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:27:29 AM UTC-7, Giacomo Dorigo wrote: Hello everybody, I am writing an app for storing and delivering files more or

Re: [web2py] Password fields fine tuning

2014-07-25 Thread Louis Amon
That's a very elegant solution. Thank you Anthony. On Friday, July 25, 2014 8:01:53 PM UTC+2, Anthony wrote: I still don't see the behavior for login, but for registration, you can try: db.auth_user.password.widget = lambda k,v: SQLFORM.widgets.password.widget (k, None,

Re: [web2py] Auto update db records behaviour per input field on release (AJAX)

2014-07-25 Thread Francisco Gama
thanks! http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/show/1983/auto-update-db-records-behaviour-per-input-field-on-release Cheers, Francisco On 25 Jul 2014, at 19:31, Derek sp1d...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I like your idea. Do you think you could post it to web2pyslices? On Tuesday, July 8, 2014

[web2py] GAE Python Dev Server won't serve static assets on Windows - MIME type error

2014-07-25 Thread Russ King
It appears that this issue will affect web2py on windows development and basically all the css files get ignored so its rather obvious its a problem: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=11001 and putting the stuff below into the top of the handlers section of app.yaml

[web2py] AJAX function

2014-07-25 Thread wdtnh
I've got a fairly substantial page with a lot of data in it that I don't want to keep reloading the page so I'm using the AJAX function provided with web2py and pulling the data from a SQLFORM used in the view page. Question I have is, I'm using validate_and_insert function, I was wondering is

Re: [web2py] Auto update db records behaviour per input field on release (AJAX)

2014-07-25 Thread Francisco Gama
I just updated this entry because I had some irrelevant code there / code missing to make it easily reproducible. Hopefully, should be fine now.. Francisco On 25 Jul 2014, at 21:54, Francisco Gama francisco@gmail.com wrote: thanks!