Hello Phil,

your answer was very helpful and right to the point. Now i can look
futher into aida.

Thank you very much

Rudolf


Am 07.01.2020 um 04:58 schrieb Phil B:
> Rudolf,
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> 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.
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> Phil
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> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 6:00 PM Phil B <pbpublist at gmail.com
> <mailto:pbpublist at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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:
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>     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)
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>     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.
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>     Phil
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>     On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 12:47 PM Rudolf <rudolf-rednose at gmx.de
>     <mailto: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
>         <http://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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