[ris-int] Re: [NCC#2005024029] RIS CGIs are online
Arife Vural arife at ripe.net
Thu Feb 24 14:09:23 CET 2005
Hi Rene, > >> For example, this input: > >> > >> Prefix/AS: 2001:610::/32 More specific IPv6 > >> > >> doesn't give any results (only the error) :( > > > Works for me. The URL may have changed, if you're going to a bookmarked page. > > No, no, I was not starting from a bookmarked page; but I've found it, > apparently the RIS CGIs don't work if the cookie RIPE_NCC_DB_SESSION > is not set. > > (my parents taught me long time ago not to accept cookies froms strangers, > so my default reaction to offered web cookies is to "deny"; most of the > time, the cookies aren't needed at all. www.ris.ripe.net also must have > ended up with cookies blocked, but until now that didn't cause problems) > > As there may well be others with similar settings, perhaps it's an > idea to catch the error of the cookie not being set and return > a user friendly error message? That's good idea. I got code piece from Kevin to do this. I'll try to add that code this week. If I can not, I'll add it next week. > > > I also have a request: once the prefix cgi is returning v6 results > > > as expected, could you modify the riswhois cgi to also put up > > > a "Query RIS database" button for IPv6 queries? > > > > > > (compare: http://www.ris.ripe.net/cgi-bin/riswhois.cgi?address=193.0.0.1 > > > with: http://www.ris.ripe.net/cgi-bin/riswhois.cgi?address=2001:610:: ) > > > > > > James did the first versions of the riswhois cgi, but I guess that after > > > the restructuring this is now SED responsibility. Yes, you're right. I put into ToDo list. http://iii/sed/twiki/bin/view/SED/RIS#ToDo About ETA, I can not say something definite this week. I'm second line support for RIPE DBM, and it's bit busy. Next week I will get back to you. > > > > Okay, we'll add it to our TODO list. > > Any rough ETA? It shouldn't be too difficult, presume one can almost > copy and paste the relevant parts from the IPv4 case. Those CGIs are implemented Mason and Perl. One CGI has more than one components. Form, result, and errors are printed by seperate html/cgi files. We can easily pass the ARGS from one to another, but the result page is not the one which is executing CGIs. That means if you copy and paste and send somebody the result page with arguments, it will not work. Since the CGI that executes the code is different than the one that produce the results. Because of that I do not think it's not so useful to have the ARGs in URL. When I had a chat with Kevin about it, he suggested to add a link somewhere on the page giving the URL. I do not know what you think about that. If you want we can go for that. Arife
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