[AG-TECH] connecting venues

[Derek Piper]

	Ah, so I guess how ANL was able to link to our Venue Server from the 
educational venues without us needing to do anything was that ANL's 
certificate was already on our Venue Server and it just let's them do 
that? Good to have the power I guess.
	Seems rather annoying that we have to mess with certificates to provide 
what is essentially just a URL (that is able to be typed into a Venue 
Client) to the Venue Server. It should be as simple as adding a link to 
a webpage, IMHO.
	Speaking of webpages, how come we have to have the impossible-to-type 
URLs with what looks like an MD5 hash at the end of them? Why not just 
'simple' names, like webpages have? What do you prefer to type? 
http://mysite.com/767d6076e0f6f086a076875d87585fe906cb or 
http://mysite.com/page1.html ? It would seem to have been obvious to do 
that for venues.
	I know it's not your doing, Michael, I'm just replying to your email 
and feeling like a rant to the list about it (again).

	Derek

Michael Miller wrote:
> Rosario,
> 
> You and anyone else who would like to link to the NCSA Venue Server are 
> welcome to send me the subject from your cert i.e.:
> 
> /O=Access Grid/OU=agdev-ca.mcs.anl.gov/OU=ncsa.uiuc.edu/CN=Michael Miller
> 
> and I'll add you to the RemoteSites list for our server.  Be sure you 
> send the subject from the cert your server is using.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Michael Miller
> NCSA
> 
> Rosario Lombardo wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> I'm trying to connect our Venue Server to other rooms out there.
>> Unfortunately it seems to me that most (each one I tried) servers deny 
>> accessing the GetVenues() method.
>> Is it possible?
>> I tried several addresses roughly described by the re:
>> https://vv2.mcs.anl.gov(:(8|9)000)?/?(VenueServer)?
>>
>> Which is the right one?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> \\Rosario
>>
>> 01/05/06 16:22:43 3320 VenueManagement     venuemanagement.py:1611 
>> ERROR VenueParamFrame.__LoadVenues: Could not load exits from server 
>> at https://vv2.mcs.anl.gov:9000/VenueServer
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "C:\Program Files\AGTk-2.4\bin\VenueManagement.py", line 1590, 
>> in __loadVenues
>>     vl = server.GetVenues()
>>   File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\AccessGrid\VenueServer.py", line 
>> 1683, in GetVenues
>>     vl = self.proxy.GetVenues()
>>   File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\SOAPpy\Client.py", line 453, in 
>> __call__
>>     return self.__r_call(*args, **kw)
>>   File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\SOAPpy\Client.py", line 475, in 
>> __r_call
>>     self.__hd, self.__ma)
>>   File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\SOAPpy\Client.py", line 347, in 
>> __call
>>     config = self.config)
>>   File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\SOAPpy\Client.py", line 187, in 
>> call
>>     r.endheaders()
>>   File "C:\Python23\lib\httplib.py", line 712, in endheaders
>>     self._send_output()
>>   File "C:\Python23\lib\httplib.py", line 597, in _send_output
>>     self.send(msg)
>>   File "C:\Python23\lib\httplib.py", line 564, in send
>>     self.connect()
>>   File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pyGlobus\io.py", line 1093, in 
>> connect
>>     self.sock.connect(self.host, self.port, self.io_attr)
>>   File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pyGlobus\io.py", line 671, in 
>> connect
>>     raise ex
>> GSITCPSocketException: an authentication operation failed
>> 01/05/06 16:22:45 3320 VenueManagement     venuemanagement.py:1577 
>> DEBUG VenueParamFrame.LoadRemoteVenues: Append address to combobox: 
>> https://vv2.mcs.anl.gov:9000/VenueServer
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Rosario Lombardo
>> Information Science and Technology Institute (ISTI) - Cnr, Italy
>> rosario.lombardo at isti.cnr.it <mailto:rosario.lombardo at isti.cnr.it>   
>> *-*   http://hpc.isti.cnr.it/~lombardo 
>> <http://hpc.isti.cnr.it/%7Elombardo>
>> phone: +39 050-315-3076
> 
> 
> 

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