Re: [Genome-mirror] Genome-mirror Digest, Vol 13, Issue 7

[Ross Lazarus]

For mirror owners wanting to use local sessions and live life on the bleeding
edge at the same time, I have cobbled together a cookie creating python CGI
script that allows a user to authenticate against an LDAP server and sets
cookies that a local UCSC mirror can be told to use for sessions by appropriate
munging of hg.conf

Not yet able to store and retrieve the right hgsid mapping so although it will
authenticate you into a session, it will not return you to the session you were
working on last time - a major goal not yet achieved!

I need to figure out how the hgsid is actually negotiated - I'm currently just
returning the ldap userid and that's definitely not what we need - the script
probably needs a table of users and real hgsid mirror session ids. Anyhoo, for
what it's worth, get it from http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Fubar:LDAP_auth

Comments in the code will show constants you have to adjust (like the LDAP
server) for this to be useful and it doesn't require mod_python. Seems to work
kinda sorta (TM) - use at your own risk and please let me know if you have
problems or suggestions.


genome-mir...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote:

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> 1. Re: sessions (Angie Hinrichs)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:12:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Angie Hinrichs <an...@soe.ucsc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Genome-mirror] sessions
> To: Ross Lazarus <ross.l...@channing.harvard.edu>
> Cc: genome...@soe.ucsc.edu
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.07...@steelhead.cse.ucsc.edu>
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> Hi Ross,
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> If you visit this page:
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> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/cartDump
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> and scroll all the way to the bottom, there's a section titled
> "Cookies passed to genome.cse.ucsc.edu:" -- what do you see there?
> Probably not the wikidb_mw1_ cookies... I'm afraid that your web
> browser will pass those back only to the domain they came from,
> ucsc.edu! :( That is not very mirror-site friendly, unfortunately...
> sorry about that. I will try to think of a workaround.
>
> Angie
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> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Ross Lazarus wrote:
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>> I could have sworn I had sessions working last week on my local mirror :)
>> I have the right entries in my hg.conf
>> # wiki connection data
>> wiki.host=genomewiki.ucsc.edu
>> wiki.userNameCookie=wikidb_mw1_UserName
>> wiki.loggedInCookie=wikidb_mw1_UserID
>>
>> I see hgsid in my url after logging in to the genome wiki (eg
>> http://meme/cgi-bin/hgSession?hgsid=5), there's an entry with that key in the
>> hgCentral.sessionDb table, but the browser screen hasn't changed from the
>> version inviting me to login. My browser has the corresponding browser cookies
>> (eg wikidb_mw1_UserName) from genome.ucsc
>>
>> Any suggestions appreciated - I already tried backing out to the original
>> version of jksrc I first installed, and also tried updating to the latest CVS -
>> no difference to the behaviour. Everything looks right but it doesn't work!
>>
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Ross Lazarus MBBS MPH, Director of Bioinformatics
Channing Laboratory, 181 Longwood Ave., Boston MA 02115, USA.
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[Hiram Clawson]

Good Morning Ross:

What is this you are working on here ? Does the session business not function
in your mirror ?

Is your mirror site public so I can peek at it ?

--Hiram