Re: [Mono-list] Cross-Browser Session Mixing
David P. Donahue wrote: I've noticed an interesting effect in .NET development where sessions can get mixed if a single computer has two browsers open to the same site. I originally noticed it on CafePress, but now my own site is exibiting the same behavior. I wonder if this is something people have tried to get around before, and what can be done about it. It's rare that a user will want to use two simultaneous browsers, but when it happens it's certainly unexpected behavior from their perspective that the sessions would mix. Any ideas? Two *browsers* or two *windows* of the same browser application? If two windows of one application (such as two Internet Explorer windows), this is perfectly normal and will happen in pretty much any server-side environment. Sessions usually are keyed to cookies, which are tied to the browser application, not to any particular open window. HTTP is a stateless protocol and makes no restrictions about how many views you might have open on the client or what order you visit them in, so you should always be prepared to be 'reentrant' with multiple hits coming from the client in different places. For instance, if the user is browsing through a list of items in one window, then does another search in another window, that second search should not obliterate any server-side state for the first search. The user might want to look at and page through both lists side-by-side. If you mean two separate applications are sharing session state (such as Firefox and Internet Explorer), then there might be something problematic going on. Generally different applications will have their own cookie storage and should thus maintain different sessions. A mixture here might indicate a poor session keying construct such as using the client's IP address (not guaranteed to be unique) or a key in the URL which got cut-and-pasted from one browser to another. (Session keys in the URL are dangerous, since keys may leak through cut-n-paste and HTTP referer headers on external links.) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
Re: [Mono-list] UTF-16 and XmlTextReader questions
François Garillot wrote: OK. I work from this basefile : á hexdump: 000 743c 7365 3e74 3ce1 742f 7365 3e74 This file does not appear to be UTF-16 at all; it appears to be in an 8-bit encoding, ISO 8859-1. In that encoding it is meaningful XML. I take the base file again and run 'iconv -f utf-16 -t utf-16' on it. I get : ÿþá hexdump: 000 feff 743c 7365 3e74 3ce1 742f 7365 3e74 This file, interpreted as UTF-16, reads as a series of Han characters: "琼獥㹴㳡琯獥㹴". It doesn't contain any document element, so is interpreted as a text node which is illegal outside of an element: Unhandled Exception: System.Xml.XmlException: Text node cannot appear in this state. file://test.xml Line 1, position 1. in <0x001ee> System.Xml.XmlTextReader:ReadText (Boolean notWhitespace) in <0x00186> System.Xml.XmlTextReader:ReadContent () in <0x0011f> System.Xml.XmlTextReader:Read () in <0x00071> test:Main () -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
[Mono-list] MySQL Connector/NET vs Mono
The documentation at http://www.mono-project.com/MySQL strongly suggests that MySQL's Connector/NET should be used in preference to the ByteFX driver that ships with Mono. However the current release of MySQL Connector/NET (1.0.5) appears to be Windows-specific; it attempts to make native calls into some ws2_32.dll and fails to work on Mono on eg Linux or Mac OS X. Do we know if this is just a packaging bug (MySQL forgot to build a portable-friendly binary?) or if MySQL is specifically abandoning Mono and cross-platform compatibility? Should Mono's online documentation be updated to reflect this? -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
Re: [Mono-list] MySQL Connector/NET vs Mono
Daniel Morgan wrote: If people are having problems running the MySQL Connector/NET on Mono, people could report these bugs to MySQL's bug database or wherever it is or a message to their public forum or mailing list to let them know. It was reported there a week ago, I added more details last night: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=12871 -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
Re: [Mono-list] MySQL Connector/NET vs Mono
Reggie Burnett wrote: Win32 specific code was added to the connector to work around limitations in the Socket class. I am not yet shipping Mono tested binaries (though I am working on including this) and so it was an oversight that 1.0.5 shipped broken on Mono. I will correct it in the next release. MySQL *is not* abandoning Mono. In fact, I have talked with Miguel about getting Connector/Net shipping with Mono. Great news! :) In the meantime, would it be possible to include a notice and a link to a previous, working version at the download page at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/1.0.html ? There's a bug report at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=12871 as well. Thanks! -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
Re: [Mono-list] New Mono Web Site
Phil Thornhill wrote: Whilst browsing the Mono website i got a php error! If you encounter such an error in the future, don't forget to report _the exact error message_ please. :) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
Re: [Mono-list] New Mono Web Site
Miguel de Icaza wrote: Whilst browsing the Mono website i got a php error! If you encounter such an error in the future, don't forget to report _the exact error message_ please. :) This error happened after we migrated from 1.3 to 1.4.9 I believe, some of the images are not showing up, check this url: http://www.mono-project.com/Image:Alta-grande.png Those files do not exist in our backup either, so am afraid that something went wrong. That looks like a failure in thumbnail generation; it's trying to resize the image to fit on the page, but the output fails. Check the permissions on the subdirectories in files/ ... the web server needs to be able to write stuff in there. (This is a fairly common problem when people transfer a wiki from one server to another; if you untar your archive as a regular user all the apache-owned files get reassigned to you.) There is a directory here: http://www.mono-project.com/files/thumb/3/ but not the 30/ subdirectory mentioned in the error message; if it's unable to create that it can't store the thumbnail, and then things go awry. Also you might consider configuring PHP to log errors instead of displaying them to end users; you can adjust the error_log and display_errors settings in php.ini. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
Re: [Mono-list] New Mono Web Site
Miguel de Icaza wrote: There is a directory here: http://www.mono-project.com/files/thumb/3/ but not the 30/ subdirectory mentioned in the error message; if it's unable to create that it can't store the thumbnail, and then things go awry. Wow, that was fast. Yes, you are right, the directory was not owned by the Apache user, but by the local user. This is now fixed. Cool! Also you might consider configuring PHP to log errors instead of displaying them to end users; you can adjust the error_log and display_errors settings in php.ini. Is this a system file, or a file that would live in the public_html dir? System file; might live in /etc or /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib or ... ;) On Debian/Ubuntu I find it in awful places like /etc/php4/apache. I'd try 'locate php.ini'; if that fails make a script containing just and check its output; it should show the path to the config file near the top. -- brion @ pobox.com) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
[Mono-list] Source RPMs or .spec files?
I've found that I often need to patch Mono for some niggling bug in the class library that's been fixed in SVN. It could simplify my life in managing multiple servers a bit if I could build local RPMs of the latest release with the needed patches and put them in a local yum repository rather than manually building things from source everywhere. I found a set of old RPM spec files at http://www.go-mono.com/packagers/ but these only go up to 1.1.2; I imagine things like the list of which files are installed have probably changed. Are there SRPMs or bare .spec files for the current release available somewhere? -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
Re: [good] [Mono-list] What's up with go-mono.com
Abe Gillespie wrote: No, that's Mono's main project site. I read the Mono blogs everyday. Go to the main Mono site and click on the blogs link in the upper-right. It's broken. :( http://www.go-mono.com/monologue/ ? Works fine for me... Can you describe the error or behavior you get? Have you tried switching browsers or clearing the cache? -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
Re: [Mono-list] Brain gone blank
Paul F. Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 16:16 +0200, Matthijs ter Woord wrote: ByteFX.Data.MySQL? Hmm, I don't seem to have that one either here or at home. Has it gone from the developer version? If you installed from RPMs, it's in a separate package that doesn't have "mono" in the name: bytefx-data-mysql. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
Re: [Mono-list] Why UTF-16 strings in Mono.Unix?
Jonathan Pryor wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:03 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Why are UTF-16 strings used in Mono.Unix? Doesn't this mean that some resources are inaccessible to programs running under Mono in a multibyte localeq (such as one using UTF-8)? Care to elaborate? System.String is always used to represent strings in Mono.Unix and Mono.Unix.Native, but Mono's marshaler will convert the strings to UTF-8 for the P/Invoke call. A peek at Mono.Unix/UnixMarshal.cs hints that managed strings are marshalled to/from the locale encoding (assuming Encoding.Default is the locale encoding); so locales other than UTF-8 ought to also work. Florian, for some background on how CLI/.NET/Mono code interfaces to native code, and specifically how paramters of various types are handled see: http://www.mono-project.com/Interop_with_Native_Libraries -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
Re: [Mono-list] Scripting the Linux OS with Mono
Abe Gillespie wrote: I was wondering if there's any easy way to run C# scripts in Mono. I'm fairly new to Linux (just at about a year) and I'd like to avoid learning yet another language (Perl, sh, etc.). Has anyone written a .Net program that takes a file as input and runs that code? Perhaps Mono can do this natively? How cool would it be to have startup scripts written in C#?! If you're not attached to C# specifically, you might want to check out Boo. It's a Python-inspired language for the CLR (so all the familiar class library is available to you), and should be rather more appropriate for lightweight scripting. It includes an interactive interpreter which should work for scripts as well. http://boo.codehaus.org/ -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
Re: [Mono-list] Long-running services
Ben Maurer wrote: >>> I know that there are a number of popular programs that are being developed >>> in >>> Mono, but I can't seem to find much precedent at the service/daemon/server >>> level. Can anybody confirm that Mono is up to this challenge, or should I >>> wait >>> a bit? If so, what milestone would I be looking for? > > I'd also point out that Wikipedia uses Mono as the backend for their > search engine. They chose Mono after trying both a java/gcj/classpath > based implementation and a c# one, finding that Mono's vm provided > greater stability. On the search daemon, the main problems I've had have been when memory or file descriptors become exhausted. If you can avoid that, and don't trip any runtime bugs ;) it seems steady as a rock and will run for hours, days, or a couple months. In some places we've had memory leak problems under Mono but I suspect these are from bugs in the dotlucene port's handling of index updates. (It's known to have some such problems.) Since I only seem to be able to reproduce it after several hours under Wikipedia's load level it was hard to debug and I've just put off the live index updates feature... A more minor issue is that setting up for standard Unix-style daemon operation seems tricky. There is a runner for 'services', but it's not well documented. For the moment we use a hacky little shell script and a PID file which usually works for basic start/stop/restart behavior where you don't need a clean shutdown. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
