Thanks Paul. I agree w/ you -- something tells me lenient-mode will be
always-mode. It was an ill-considered added feature ;)

--j

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Paul Lindner <[email protected]> wrote:

> I committed a change the at least deals with the default case by adding the
> container to the URI in the correct places and fixing a strict check for
> when a container proxy host value is not present.
>
> To help people upgrading I'd suggest being lenient and retaining the
> previous behavior by default.
>
> Furthermore unless we add a signature to the URLs it seems like these
> host/container checks are only of limited usefulness.  ie:
>
>  var foo = gadgets.io.getProxyUrl("http://foo.com";)
>    .replace("container=xyz","container=abc")
>    .replace("hostname", "otherhost");
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:42 PM, John Hjelmstad <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul:
> >
> > I hear you on the concern here. We're going from very distributed,
> > loose-form URI generation to something more structured. My original CLs
> for
> > DefaultProxyUriManager took this even too far, validating host and path
> > prefix, which caused quite a few breakages that were unnecessary.
> >
> > In this case it sounds like the problem is that the old style didn't
> > require
> > container=. In DefaultProxyUriManager I mandate this as well for auditing
> > purposes, doing so under the assumption that the URL is generated by the
> > same Manager (or already-compatible gadgets.io.getProxyUrl).
> > ContentRewriterUris doesn't include this in the fallback case (no
> container
> > specified).
> >
> > So:
> >
> > 1. The intent is to get rid of HTMLContentRewriter and its entire stack
> > (LinkRewriter, ContentRewriterUris, et al.). They're kept around in an
> > effort to let their replacements bake in and get some real-world
> exposure.
> > For instance, we're using them in the Google instance of Shindig.
> > 2. Tactically speaking it sounds like ContentRewriterUris should tack on
> > container=default (or similar) when no container value is specified, to
> > support dual-mode URI generation. In this case, lenient-mode parsing
> should
> > work fine.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> > --j
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Paul Lindner <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Looks like proxy rewriting of images is failing with the new
> > > DefaultProxyUriManager class.
> > >
> > > Specifically rewriters are not setting the container value, which
> causes
> > > the
> > > request to be rejected.  The default code that uses values from
> > > java/config/shindig.properties and the javascript code for getProxyUrl
> do
> > > not set container values, thus proxying is all broken for these use
> > cases.
> > >
> > > It appears that ContentRewriterUris tries to use the container specific
> > > value of gadgets.rewriteProxyBase, failing that it uses the injected
> > value
> > > of shindig.content-rewrite.proxy-url which maps to /gadgets/proxy?url=
> > >
> > > I'm a bit concerned that there are other issues like this lurking
> > about...
> > >
> > > Is it possible that we can come up with a common idiom that handles all
> > of
> > > these situations?  Perhaps a parameterized Uri concept that could be
> > > applied
> > > here.
> > >
> >
>

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