Hi Koen! Thanks for following up.
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Koen Deforche <k...@emweb.be> wrote: > Hey, > > 2016-05-16 15:08 GMT+02:00 K. Frank <kfrank2...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hello List! >> >> I am playing around with Wt and wish to experiment with Wt's >> account / authentication features, so I am looking at the hangman >> example, and running it on line. >> >> https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/examples/hangman-game/hangman.wt >> >> It seems that when I click on the high-scores link, I get stuck on >> the login page. > > I just tried and indeed there was a database problem with the online > version, which caused registration of a new user to fail. > > The cause is not in the software but in the database itself: the hangman > game was migrated (a few years ago) from it's own authentication system to > Wt::Auth / Wt::Dbo, but there was something not quite right in the migrated > user table. It's now been fixed. Thank you. I can confirm that logging in and looking at the high scores now works for me. One detail: I was able to log in today using the username / password that I registered yesterday, so the registration of a new user must have been working at least partially -- at least enough to record the username and password that I created yesterday. Well, no matter -- it works now.. > >> 1) I've done something wrong >> 2) there's a bug in the hangman example that I've copied >> 3) there's a bug in the underlying Wt library >> >> Have I misunderstood how to use the online hangman's login page? >> Should I be expecting it to work? Should I be comfortable modelling >> my own code after the hangman example, or does it have some known >> issues that I should be planning to correct? > > We understand the risk of using a library is being in the dark when > something goes wrong. Therefore we try to give clear errors and logging of > exceptions. In this case it seems you would get an error message in the log > file that hints at what's wrong (a SQL database exception) Thanks for the explanation. > Regards, > koen Best. K. Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ witty-interest mailing list witty-interest@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/witty-interest
