[AG-TECH] development issue

David G Mills dgm at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 23 10:29:07 CDT 2004


Eric,

Thank you very much, I'll give it a try. =)

Cheers,

David.

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Eric Olson wrote:

> 
> Hi David,
> 
> The AccessGrid/AGServiceManager.py starts services as separate processes 
> and passes them options as well.  To pass the correct flag, you could do 
> something like this after the port option is appended, but before 
> StartProcess() is called.
> if self.app.options.insecure:
>     options.append("--insecure")
> 
> Eric
> 
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, David G Mills wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get the VenueClient to actually work properly when you pass 
> > it the '--insecure' option from the command line, instead of some fake 
> > facade of a working application.
> > 
> > My final grievance is with the RunService() method within AGService.py. So 
> > some reason it is starting an instance of SecureServer from 
> > hosting/SOAPpy/Server.py without performing any kind of check to see if AG 
> > is running in insecure mode. I've tried all sorts of checking to ascertain 
> > from within the RunService() method whether '--insecure' has been called 
> > on start up, but nothing works. It would seem that the method call is so 
> > far down it has no understanding of the processes above it that are 
> > calling it.
> > 
> > Could an actual AccessGrid developer please suggest how I can check on the 
> > state of the VenueClient from RunService() or perhaps suggest how to 
> > modify it and subsequent classes to be able to pass a parameter down to it 
> > so that it knows the state.
> > 
> > Awaiting eagerly,
> > 
> > David.
> > 
> > 
> 




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