Repercussions of disabling wildcard

[ofosho]

I have created a small intranet for my company which uses SSL. In order to get APE running without the need for a wildcard certificate, I removed the 3 places where frequency is attached to the URL. I found a few discussions that say that it is "not possible" to do this, citing multi-window/tab support. I have found no such issues, and I believe it is because of how I use ape.

I needed a way to send site-wide push notifications of activities in the system. Basically Alice performs X, and I need a way to inform every currently logged in user of what just happened. Really it is just an alert system, but it seems to work after light testing.

My question is, can anyone tell me of a scenario where this wouldn't work? I feel like there has to be something I am missing. What features am I leaving on the table? I don't need to send individual messages, just broadcasts.

Lastly, if there is seemingly no problem with this set up, wouldn't my use-case apply to more people than just myself? Wouldn't this be something to consider adding to the framework? I only changed 3 lines of code.

Thank you,

-O

[Pablo Tejada]

The only feature, that i know of, that depends on frequencies is subusers. Other then that you should be good. If you start having some issues do post then here. 

I think that making frequencies optional is on the request list for the next generation framework.

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[Pablo Tejada]

Check this commit from a fork i have, it doesn't delete lines but rather tries to use a frequency in the json command instead than in the domain.

On Dec 11, 2012 9:51 AM, "Mathieu Bodjikian" <bodj...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, can you tell me which file and lines did you modified/delete please ? 

Thanks

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[Mathieu Bodjikian]

Thanks, I saw your work but could it be possible to disable wildcard and keep the existing JSF framework ? 

Or just modify one or two lines ? I have a production environement and I need to modify it as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your precious help :)

[Pablo Tejada]

Yes you could, do you see how the chl or challenge is send in every command, you just have to send the frequency value in the json variable freq instead of adding it to the domain.

So a command would look like:

[{cmd: "connect", chl:34, freq:11 ...}]

For example in the APE_JSF framework there is function called parseCmd() which builds the outgoing commad.

https://github.com/APE-Project/APE_JSF/blob/master/Source/Request/Request.js

In line 53 and 83 you could see it adds the challenge # or chl so you would add the frequency below that line

o.freq = the frequency #

To avoid the frequency to be added to the domain you would have to go in the source and edit every transport. You would be looking for a  line like this.ape.options.frequency

In case of the websocket is on line 12 on the file
https://github.com/APE-Project/APE_JSF/blob/master/Source/Transport/Transport.WebSocket.js

If you manage to make this edits work you can tested it on the fork https://github.com/ptejada/APE_Server

But do note that the fork is not ready for prime time as it has a minor bug for the longpolling protocol. The websocket however works flawlesly,

good luck

[Mathieu Bodjikian]

Hello,

I succeeded with a proxy_pass on a front ngnix server by transforming :

https://www.domain.tld/ape/frequency/request  to https://frequency.ape.ourapeserver.tld/2/request


On Ngnix Server :
    location ~*^\/ape\/(\d+)\/$ {
            proxy_pass https://$1.ape.domain.tld:443/2$request_uri;
    }

On JSF Framework (Source/Core/Core.js), I replaced :

        this.serverUri = (this.options.secure ? 'https' : 'http') + '://' + this.options.frequency + '.' + this.options.server + '/' + this.options.transport + '/?',
      
by :

        this.serverUri = (this.options.secure ? 'https' : 'http') + '://' + this.options.server + '/ape/' + this.options.frequency + '/?',


If this can help anyone ;)

Have a nice day