Hey Neo,
To be honest we have strayed from the 'shindig development' into
'general software engineering concepts" a long time ago. While i am
always happy to help people out, it's starting to go to the general
support side a bit to much, and this is after all the 'shindig
development list', so i would like to try to keep things on topic a
bit here; We've spammed the list more then enough already.
If you have problems with jQuery, they have some wonderful forums and
mailing lists of their own.. The same goes for gadget development
(this is about shindig, the rendering server .. and not about gadget
development), there are a lot of resources on the various container's
sites (hi5, myspace, imeem, etc), and howto's (check the various
gadget/opensocial/orkut/etc blogs). They might be a better resource
and more fitting for these kinds of questions.
Next to that, as a general rule of thumb when your asking questions on
a mailing list or forum, it creates good karma when you show that you
have tried things, read the documentation, and tried to find things
out your self in general .. If an example about orkut fails, but you
did nothing to try to configure your local java shindig server to have
ssl keys, then of course it is going to fail ... just posting that
fact won't make people jump to help you. If however you showed what
readme's you read, what mailing list archives and source code you went
through and generally made an effort, then people will most likely
feel much more inclined to help (after all why should they put in an
effort when you obviously don't want too?)
Sorry if i sound harsh saying these things, but i thought an honest
answer would help you more then just silence.
-- Chris
On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Neo Anderson wrote:
All my pages are of PHP and they need SESSION values for any
transaction. If
I use oAuth, can I create a session there and use it? Or any other
way?
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hey Neo,
Welcome to the world of gadget development :-) There's a lot of
resources
and examples out there of how to write this, they might give you a
bit of a
better overview of how to develop gadgets in the open social kind
of way.
Normally speaking gadget writers don't have access to either the
container,
nor the shindig server, so their server is on a 3rd domain ...
Now Sessions are especially bad since the same gadget can be on
different
persons pages, one for me == viewer == owner, but also on your
friend's page
(same gadget, same browser, same session cookie... however a
different
gadget with different info.. woops!) Next to that huge problem, the
proxy
server also cache's information (use the REFRESH_INTERVAL param for
makeRequest to control for how long btw), and dynamic sessions +
caching
proxies = bad :) (and yes you really want to have caching, since
it saves
your behind when you just made a popular app on orkut, myspace and
hi5 and
your servers would crumble if you served all the page hits all by
your
self). So thats 2 very big reasons not to use sessions in this
context.
So what you would do is that if you need specific information, in the
social setting this will be related to the Viewer ID, or the Owner
ID, and
those can be provided in a secure, verified fashion by making signed
requests..
There's a how-to-do-this from the gadget point of view at:
http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-resources/wiki/OrkutValidatingSignedRequests
And for creating certificates on php shindig's side read:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shindig/trunk/php/certs/README
After you follow those steps, the public certificate for your shindig
server is available at http://<your.shindig>/public.crt which you
can then
use in the client side to validate the requests, and verify the
owner and
viewer id ... and all your logic you kind of hang of of those id's
On Jun 12, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Neo Anderson wrote:
Chris, I got another problem here.
Problem is my container is at port 80. Server is at port 8080.
Here, I am
able to send Ajax requests from the XML file(gadget) to files at
port
80(container) without any problems. The files on port 80 are (PHP
files)
using sessions and based on these sessions. But the problem is as
the
makeRequest uses proxy, request to that server page goes from port
8080
and
session is created for localhost:80, so session doesn't exist for
localhost:8080. How can I solve this problem?
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Neo Anderson <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Yes, Thank you.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
try:
<?php
echo json_encode($_REQUEST);
i think that will fix a lot of your problems right there :P
-- Chris
On Jun 11, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Neo Anderson wrote:
<?php
json_encode($_REQUEST);
?>
I am getting response as below:
throw 1; < don't be evil'
{"http://localhost/makeRequestTest.php":{"body":"\r\n","rc":200}}
