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[jira] [Created] (COUCHDB-1307) Error popup when viewing futon on a
vhost
Error popup when viewing futon on a vhost
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Key: COUCHDB-1307
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1307
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Futon
Reporter: The Dod
Priority: Minor
When accessing futon from a vhost (where "/" doesn't return a json description of the server), you unnecessarily get an "error" popup (containing the entire html of the "/" page).
Since many CouchApps link into futon as a way for end users to edit their profiles, they get the impression that the app is "broken".
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[jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-1307) Error popup when viewing futon on
a vhost
Posted by "The Dod (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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The Dod commented on COUCHDB-1307:
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I'd like to address the second issue you've raised first, because it's much more critical: You can't disable a user's ability to change own profile, and the current "de facto standard" (i.e. what you get from "couchapp generate" and therefore - 99% of the couchapverse) is that "edit profile" is a link to /_utils/document.html?_users/org.couchdb.user:myusername
Even if in the future a non-futon solution for "edit profile" emerges, we'd still have to leave a clue to users of legacy couchapps there (it's acceptable if they get a warning or two along the way, but we'd still need a "we've moved here" link somewhere).
Now for the issue of "treating *any* error case as a possible vhost": we're taking about a *specific* case. The function that might "fail" here is discovering the server's version. If the error is a result of something more serious than "we're on a vhost", then other alerts would (or at least should) trigger. All we need is to change the *comment* in the code "either it's a vhost, or things are so bad user has already figured out there's a problem and doesn't need yet another popup right now" :)
A more elegant way to solve this would be to use a vhost-agnostic /_version or something instead of / for fetching the version, but my patch works on localhost. The fact that I don't have it at - say - iriscouch (because it's not "official") is frightening my users, so pretty please - either do it properly (/_version) or accept this simple and harmless patch so that they can relax.
> Error popup when viewing futon on a vhost
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> Key: COUCHDB-1307
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1307
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Futon
> Reporter: The Dod
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: javascript, patch
> Attachments: futon.js.diff
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> Original Estimate: 5m
> Remaining Estimate: 5m
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> When accessing futon from a vhost (where "/" doesn't return a json description of the server), you unnecessarily get an "error" popup (containing the entire html of the "/" page).
> Since many CouchApps link into futon as a way for end users to edit their profiles, they get the impression that the app is "broken".
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[jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-1307) Error popup when viewing futon on
a vhost
Posted by "Jan Lehnardt (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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Jan Lehnardt commented on COUCHDB-1307:
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I agree that this is a usability issue, but I don't think treating any error case as a possible vhost is the the right approach.
I'd be happy to go on record to say that for the time being vhosts/rewrites don't support Futon (or vice versa) until we find a way to get this fixed.
> Error popup when viewing futon on a vhost
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Key: COUCHDB-1307
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1307
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Futon
> Reporter: The Dod
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: javascript, patch
> Attachments: futon.js.diff
>
> Original Estimate: 5m
> Remaining Estimate: 5m
>
> When accessing futon from a vhost (where "/" doesn't return a json description of the server), you unnecessarily get an "error" popup (containing the entire html of the "/" page).
> Since many CouchApps link into futon as a way for end users to edit their profiles, they get the impression that the app is "broken".
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[jira] [Updated] (COUCHDB-1307) Error popup when viewing futon on a
vhost
Posted by "The Dod (Updated) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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The Dod updated COUCHDB-1307:
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Attachment: futon.js.diff
> Error popup when viewing futon on a vhost
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Key: COUCHDB-1307
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1307
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Futon
> Reporter: The Dod
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: javascript, patch
> Attachments: futon.js.diff
>
> Original Estimate: 5m
> Remaining Estimate: 5m
>
> When accessing futon from a vhost (where "/" doesn't return a json description of the server), you unnecessarily get an "error" popup (containing the entire html of the "/" page).
> Since many CouchApps link into futon as a way for end users to edit their profiles, they get the impression that the app is "broken".
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