Web socket error close codes specific to browser - websocket

I am using Websockets in my application for streaming purpose .
I am using Jetty in back end for this purpose
On to the onclose call back method i have this
#Override
public void onClose(int arg0, String arg1) {
logger.info("In onClose :: " + arg0 + " :: " + arg1);
}
What i observed is that , the error codes are not generic but specific to browser that is
When i use chrome it displays 1006 , if browser is closed using ctrl+w , Clicked on Cross Button , or even user clicked on logout button
but where as in firefox it displays 1001 if browser is closed using ctrl+w , Clicked on Cross Button , or even user clicked on logout button
Now the problem is that i really cannot identify why a disconnect has been happened , because as it being a browser specific ??
please share your views as how to debug in such cases ??

This may help:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6455#section-7.4.1
Specifically:
1001 indicates that an endpoint is "going away", such as a server
going down or a browser having navigated away from a page.>
and
1006 is a reserved value and MUST NOT be set as a status code in a
Close control frame by an endpoint. It is designated for use in
applications expecting a status code to indicate that the connection
was closed abnormally, e.g., without sending or receiving a Close
control frame.
So I am going to guess that you're looking at this from the server standpoint in which case the 1006 would indicate that the chrome endpoint did not behave well and the server reacted to that with the special close code. In your client side I would start debugging it to ensure it makes it into whatever close code is required to get that actual close code of 1001 back to the server. Now you may not be able to get to close logic in all of your scenarios, that is why this close code exists in the first place, but you should at least be able to close the connection cleanly via your own logout button.

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uiless action in Outlook add-in with displayDialog()

We are seeing a change in Outlook with one of actions (“Help”) that stopped working on the web client only.
This action simply calls a js that opens a web page in a displayDialog() but it’s uiless in the sense that there’s no pane.
The other action (“Sign”) works ok but it launches a pane that does this.
Both of them work fine on the rich client (at least the version I use).
I wonder if there has been in recent changes in the requirements or the way this works?
We’re not seeing any error messages, just nothing happens after the prompt saying that the add-in is doing something.
We did some initial testing and noticed that in chrome the dialog will sometimes appear briefly. Could you confirm that you are calling event.completed() in the eventhandler of EventType.DialogEventReceived? event.completed() must be called in the DialogEventReceived handler otherwise the dialog will be closed prematurely.
Office.context.ui.displayDialogAsync(url, dialogOptions, function(result) {
// In the callback, save the dialog object
dialog = result.value;
// Add an event handler for messages sent via messageParent
dialog.addEventHandler(Microsoft.Office.WebExtension.EventType.DialogMessageReceived, receiveMessage);
// Add an event handler for events from the platform (like closing the dialog, etc.)
dialog.addEventHandler(Microsoft.Office.WebExtension.EventType.DialogEventReceived, dialogClosed);
});

Actionscript 4: NetConnection.connect(...) does not fire a NetStatusEvent event

I downloaded the red5-recorder (http://www.red5-recorder.com/) , which fails to allow me to start recording. After debugging I found that the netconnection, needed to record to a media server, created does not fire a NetStatusEvent event, so essentially it fails silently. I have implemented the connection with the following minimal working example:
trace("make net connection");
nc = new NetConnection();
nc.client = { onBWDone: function():void{ trace("bandwidth check done.") } };
trace("add event listener");
nc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, function(event:NetStatusEvent) {
trace("handle");
});
trace("connect!");
nc.connect("rtmp://localshost/oflaDemo/test/");
trace("connect done");
The output of this piece of code is:
make net connection
add event listener
connect!
connect done
The actionscript api states that the connect-call always fires such an event:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/NetConnection.html#includeExamplesSummary
Moreover, the netconnection is not 'connected' (a state of the NetConnection object) 10 seconds after the call. I also took a look at this: NetConnect fails silently in Flash when called from SilverLight But the fix suggested by the author, swapping rtmp and http in the connection uri, do not work. Also, I tested the uri and in fact the exact same code sniplet in a personal project, where it did work. I just can not seem to find why connecting to a media server fails silently in the red5-recorder project.
The awkward part is that if I pass some random string as a conenction uri, still nothing happens (no event, no exception, no crash). Also not setting nc.client becore nc.connect(), which caused exceptions in my experience, did not cause exceptions.
Any suggestions are welcome.
You are setting the address to localshost instead localhost.
nc.connect("rtmp://localshost/oflaDemo/test/");
Correct address:
nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/oflaDemo/test/");

MsgBox on server side

I am trying to display a popup message on my web app. When i run my app normally on my local pc, i get the pop up message boxes appear. However when i publish the app they dont.
here's how it will work:
a button is pressed, it will pick up a file from a directory, then it will check another directory to see if the file the exists...if the file exists then a pop up is needed to inform "File already exists. do you want to continue?" if the user clicks yes it carried on with the code, if they click no then the process is ended.
do anyone have any idea how to do this?
my code so far:
If System.IO.File.Exists(acceptedExistsuNKNOWN) And System.IO.File.Exists(rejectedExistsUNKNOWN) Then
'IF BOTH EXIST
If MsgBox(acceptedExistsuNKNOWN & " & " & rejectedExistsUNKNOWN & "files already exists, do you want to rerun the process?", MsgBoxStyle.YesNo, "Files Exists") = MsgBoxResult.Yes Then
(continur
else
System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess.Kill()...
many thanks
The problem with your idea is that someone would need to sit logged in to the server to interact with the modal popup boxes; that is, if this was even possible, since it would need to be that person on the server who does the action on the page in order to be the recipient of the popup, so it's not like other users can issue a popup to him.
What you do on the server side executes on the server side.
I think you really want ti to show on the client side, but want the logic to make it happen on the server side. It doesn't work this way. Instead, what you might do is output something n the response that indicates a client-side popup should be shown. For instance, you could have a hidden field on the page and set a value, then use JavaScript to show an alert if that value meets your criteria.
Think about what you are asking. If a dialog pops on the server side, the user will not be able to see it (they are on the client side). Moreover, the code will be at a standstill until someone dismisses that dialog, which the user cant see. Only individuals with access to the server will be able to see this. Do you intend to have someone watching the server 24/7? Instead, you probably want to alert the user. This can be done my returning a response from the server code to the client code to display a dialog. The simplest method would be to throw an error and redirect the user to a new page to display an error. If you want something more fluid, you can use updated panels and the AjaxControlToolkit's modal pop up extender. Another way would be to use ClientScript, like this:
try
{
//check for files here
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
string script = "<script>alert('" + ex.Message + "');</script>";
if (!Page.IsStartupScriptRegistered("myErrorScript"))
{
Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript("myErrorScript", script);
}
}

Socket.IO disconnection problem before closing window

I am trying to prevent the client from disconnecting from the server. So before the user closes the window on which the app is open, I do:
$(window).bind("beforeunload", function() {
return("Close the app?");
});
But the problem is that no matter if the user chooses to leave or stay on the page where the app is open, the client get's disconnected (stops listening) from the server, before even I chose an option. So if the user chooses to stay on the page, nothing will be sent or received from the server.
Why can this be? How can this be prevented?
I had exactly the same problem in my project.
When you call socket.connect(), you should set sync disconnect on unload parameter of your connection to false (it is true by default):
var conn_options = {
'sync disconnect on unload':false
};
socket = io.connect(url, conn_options);
You can find more connection options here: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/wiki/Configuring-Socket.IO
P.S. Hope it's still actual for you :)
UPD.
Since the doc was changed, false is now the default value of sync disconnect on unload
You might not be able to avoid the problem as there are no other events triggering before "beforeunload" at window close that i know of. However,you could work around it by asking the socket to reconnect in the callback of the window close dialog when the user chooses to not exit the page. Reconnecting is pretty easy, just:
socket.connect()
Here's another question that describes reconnecting in more detail:
How to reconnect as soon as disconnect happens

If I Rapidly Click the Browser Back Button Twice, The User is Logged Out in Our Cake App

This is a weird bug, and I'm not even sure how to begin figuring out what's going on.
We are using Cake 1.3.8 with our sessions in the database. I am not using ACL or any other access control. If we navigate into the application and click around a bit, and then rapidly click the browser back button twice (I've tried in Firefox and Chrome) the user is logged out more often than not and receives the error message 'You are not authorized to access that location'.
All of my searches thus far have involved people wanting to make the page inaccessible if a user logged out and then used the back button. I'm not seeing anything reported with regards to the issue I'm seeing.
Does anybody know if this is a Cake issue or have any thoughts on debugging what is going wrong?
Update: I found where the problem is. I have the security set to high, because we need the session to be closed whenever somebody closes the browser. I also have the timeout set very high because we do large binary uploads to S3, and don't want the user logged out while it's uploading or downloading. The specific block of code in cake_sessions.php that's causing the problem is:
$time = $this->read('Config.time');
$this->write('Config.time', $this->sessionTime);
if (Configure::read('Security.level') === 'high') {
$check = $this->read('Config.timeout');
$check -= 1;
$this->write('Config.timeout', $check);
if (time() > ($time - (Security::inactiveMins() * Configure::read('Session.timeout')) + 2) || $check < 1) {
$this->renew();
$this->write('Config.timeout', 10);
}
}
$this->valid = true;
I would guess this is because session IDs are regenerated between requests when security = high. Source:
http://book.cakephp.org/compare/44/CakePHP-Core-Configuration-Variables/cakephp/cakephp1x
You only need one out of sync request, say for a missing image and you will lose the session. I've generally found it unworkable because it's not possible to prevent users double-clicking on links and buttons and invalidating their session.
I would think about using medium security, setting the session timeout fairly short and using an AJAX script to refresh the session at regular intervals (eg every 60s). That way the user will be logged out quickly if the tab/window is closed.
If security is a priority I would suggest hacking the core to make sure the session cookies are set to http_only to help guard against session hijacking by XSS attacks. Cakephp 1.x supports PHP4 so probably isn't setting this by default.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php
It's possible that the session is erased and before it can be written again, the back button is clicked removing the auth from the session variables.
Page loads -> Back Button Clicks -> sessions is erased (but before session is rewritten) -> Back button clicks -> Session checks no existing session.
The only thing that I can think is happening is that when you're going back a page too quickly your code can't validate the person quickly enough (round trip from checking credentials) and throws an error that gets displayed on the next page that is loaded (second backed-to page).
Are you sure the person is actually logged out, or is it just the error being thrown?
Without seeing any code, it will be difficult to nail it down any further.

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