Rudolf,

I had a chance to have a quick look at the original Aida code and sure
enough it has a hard coded cookie expiration of Jan 1, 2020.  If you set
year in AIDASite>>cookieHeaderFor: to something in the future that should
resolve the issue.

Phil

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 6:00 PM Phil B <pbpublist at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rudolf,
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> I can only indirectly address your question so it might not be helpful.  I
> am very actively using a descendant of Aida and haven't had any issues as a
> result of the new year.  The nonexistent context error *normally* only
> occurs when a session is killed / times out but a page based on that
> session is already loaded in your web browser which sends an event (as the
> result of an action such as a button click or some running browser-side
> Javascript code) which results in the server needing to locate the session
> in order to respond.  I can think of a couple of ways a year rollover might
> result in this sort of error:
>
> 1) There could be a problem with the expiration date for Aida-generated
> cookies.  If the expiration date is hard coded to an expired date, the
> browser would likely immediately discard them.  The net result would be
> that when the browser needs to pass the session id back to the server, it
> doesn't have it to send. (I *think* that's how Aida handles the session id
> by default but it's been a while since I've run a 'regular' Aida server)
>
> 2) There could be problem with the session cleanup logic incorrectly
> terminating sessions too quickly (or even immediately) on the server.  So
> be on the lookout for any funny looking date logic/math there.
>
> Phil
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 12:47 PM Rudolf <rudolf-rednose at gmx.de> wrote:
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>> Hello List, happy new year.
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>> i am trying the Aida/Web Server.
>> This is on Windows.
>> Installing Squeak like its described on the Webpage:
>> http://aidaweb.si/download
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>> i := Installer monticello http: 'http://smalltalkhub.com'.
>> i project: 'mc/Sport/Sport/main';  install: 'Sport-2.031'.
>> i project: 'mc/Swazoo/Swazoo/main';  install: 'Swazoo-2.3final.2'.
>> i project: 'mc/Aida/Aida/main'; install: 'Aida6.6-final.3'.
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>> all went fine.
>> Starting up: "http://localhost:8888/?view=ajax" shows the expected
>> website.
>> But selecting any "Action Link / TextButton" results in an Halt Signal.
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>> Trying to login as admin results in a Message: "request for unknown or
>> nonexistent context!"
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>> NOW:
>> if the system Date is set back to 2019, all issues are gone.
>> Same results when using the all in One Image from aidaweb.si or even
>> with an older image Squeak 3.9 and aida Version 5.6
>> The aidaweb mailing list seems very quite since a long time.
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>> Any hints on how to debug or solve the issue is very much appreciated.
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>> So, is anyone using Aida/Web succesfully in 2020? and if so, how?
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>> Thanks for reading so far
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>> Rudolf
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