Presence and IntComm WG

[Jamey Hicks <>]

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 08:46, Ben Teitelbaum wrote:

Hi Ben,

Thanks for the beautification effort and for hooking in the session
names.  I'm not worried about the backtick execution since the data for
the command line comes only from the database.  I'm a little concerned
that it will cause a performance problem.  I was thinking of adding a
column to the place table for the session name and running a script that
updates it every so often (half hour? 5 minutes?).  I'm inclined to
install what you have done so far and revisit it when everything else is
done.

OK, I installed it.

We should have a navigational page at http://ser.uits.indiana.edu/
instead of the apache test page.

We actually should have a cname such as ser.internet2.edu or
demo.internet2.edu that points to ser.uits.indiana.edu so that if we do
have to roll over to the backup server that we can roll over to the
backup server without changing everyone's config files.  But then the
roll over would take as long as the time-to-live + caching of DNS
records.  So actually, an A record resolving to the IP address of
ser.uits.indiana.edu might be better.


> 1) The bug
> 
>   In function authenticate($rw) {} in locdb.inc, you do...
> 
>   $q = "select password from subscriber where username='$auth_user'";
> 
>   We really ought to be authenticating on email_address, not username.
>   I'm in the DB three times as username='ben' with different email
>   addresses.  Consequently, I can only log into the portal as one of
>   these users.

Right.  I have made this change.

> 2) The puzzle
> 
>   Should we populate the subscriber_place table with places for the
>   rooms themselves so that the current session names appear for the
>   "room buddies" on the presence portal?
> 

Good idea.  Do you have time to make this change?

Jamey


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