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[EP-tech] Re: Problems having the secure.xml template loaded OR How to get a different $config{base_url} for secure connections?

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  • Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Problems having the secure.xml template loaded OR How to get a different $config{base_url} for secure connections?
  • From: Adam Field <af05v@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:44:19 +0900
Hi Florian

I believe that secure.xml was phased out some versions ago.  It certainly isn't part of the current release of EPrints (see https://github.com/eprints/eprints/tree/3.3/lib/templates ).

I would suggest that you check you're loading resources correctly in the template:


If that fails, swap your template for the default one of the version you're using and see if you still have the same problem.  Finally, if you're still lost, put your template up somewhere where we can see (do you have a github account?) it and post a link to it so we can take a look.

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On 11 Jul 2015, at 00:04, Florian Heß <hess@ub.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

Hi,

please could someone point me to where in the codebase EPrints decides
to load either of default.xml or secure.xml template? Failed to grep
that place in order to find out what the exact conditions are.

What I am struggling with is to load local asset files (.css, .js). If
the connection is secure because the client is logged in, Firefox seems
to happily load these files into cache as Firebug shows, but refuses to
use them. That's apparently why the user area is styled with bare
browser-defaults, while in the public pages the styles are applied properly.

Firebug allows to change the loaded code on the fly. By fixing the urls,
I get some style afterwards. Not everything, to fix this may be yet
another issue when I have solved the basic one.

We have different hosts for insecure and secure connections, and
different http(s)_roots too: https requires loading from a subpath on
another vhost, while http is served directly from the official domain.
This setup seems to be too exotic for the current implementation.
Because EPrints urls are variadic in regard to hierarchy depth, the
paths cannot be indicated relative or absolute-on-same-domain in the
template (at least not without dirty methods asking for trouble).

If the default.xml vs. secure.xml template distinction is deprecated, I
didn't find a hint in the changelogs. As a work-around I considered to
define a different $config{base_url} when the connection is secure, but
in cfg.d/session.pl file, can't I use $session->get_secure to get a
session-restricted base_url for template rendering?

Following has no effect:

$c->{session_init} = sub {
    my ($session, $offline) = @_;
    $c->{base_url} = $c->{https_root} if $session->get_secure;
};


Kind regards
Florian

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