[Sugar-devel] Web activities on XO-4

Gonzalo Odiard gonzalo at laptop.org
Tue Sep 24 14:45:46 EDT 2013


Thanks James.

In other news, I have tried add a simple web server,
but apparently I couldn't make run webkit and the webserver together,
even using threads.

Gonzalo


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:46 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> I just love sockets.
>
> But that seems wrong to me; to open a socket to get a port number and
> then shut it down.  Presumably later code would open another socket
> and bind it to the port?
>
> If you truly need to do it that way, there's one more thing to add
> before the call to bind():
>
>         sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
>
> This is so that the same port number can be re-used shortly
> afterwards.  Otherwise the later code would see an address in use
> error.
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:56:31AM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> > A free port can be get using:
> >
> >             # Get a free socket
> >             sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0)
> >             sock.bind(('', 0))
> >             sock.listen(socket.SOMAXCONN)
> >             _ipaddr, self.port = sock.getsockname()
> >             sock.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
> >             logging.error('Using port %d', self.port)
> >
> > Should be good use 0.0.0.0 as ip instead of localhost, to avoid [1]
> > To serve the files python already have HTTPServer.
> >
> >  Gonzalo
> >
> > [1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12479
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >     Just a directory. It needs to be one server per activity though, so
> that
> >     the different port gives us a different origin.
> >
> >
> >     On 18 September 2013 23:32, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >         Ok. Thanks.
> >         The web server need have something special or just serve a
> directory is
> >         enough?
> >
> >         Gonzalo
> >
> >
> >         On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Daniel Narvaez <
> dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
> >         wrote:
> >
> >             Well, there are several html features which depend on each
> activity
> >             having their own origin, for example local storage.
> >
> >
> >             On Wednesday, 18 September 2013, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> >
> >                 No, why is needed use a local web server instead of
> >                  the use of the proposed solution (use '
> >                 enable-file-access-from-file-uris' )
> >
> >                 Gonzalo
> >
> >
> >                 On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Daniel Narvaez <
> >                 dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >                     You mean why the http server would be a problem?
> >
> >
> >                     On Wednesday, 18 September 2013, Gonzalo Odiard
> wrote:
> >
> >                         This is for the potential security risk of
> opening
> >                         files outside of the activity directory,
> >                         or because can be a problem with different
> activities
> >                         running at the same time
> >                         or multiple instances of the same activity?
> >
> >                         Gonzalo
> >
> >
> >                         On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Daniel Narvaez <
> >                         dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >                             You could put an http server in the
> activity...
> >                             Sucks but I'm not sure there is a better way
> :/
> >
> >
> >                             On Wednesday, 18 September 2013, Manuel
> Quiñones
> >                             wrote:
> >
> >                                 I finally got web activities working on
> XO-4,
> >                                 in the AU build
> >                                 published yesterday [1] .  I did it by
> >                                 modifying webactivities.py to
> >                                 use WebKitGTK1 instead of v2.  The
> changes are:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/manuq/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-1/
> >                                 compare/webacts-webkit1
> >
> >                                 I tried it with Gears Activity v3, and is
> >                                 working.  It stores the data
> >                                 and the metadata.  So it is
> communicating with
> >                                 the shell just fine.
> >
> >                                 The touchscreen is not responding very
> well, at
> >                                 least in this
> >                                 activity.  I can tap buttons, but I can
> barely
> >                                 drag to move a gear or
> >                                 to draw one.  The dragging seems to be
> >                                 cancelled in the middle of the
> >                                 action.  Mouse input works fine.
> >
> >                                 Also as expected, the icons look small
> in the
> >                                 XO screen because I need
> >                                 to adapt the theme.  But that is an easy
> one,
> >                                 just changing the
> >                                 CEL_SIZE variable in the LESS file to
> create
> >                                 another CSS for the XO
> >                                 screen DPI, and adding a CSS media query
> >                                 selector to the HTML.  I'll
> >                                 provide a patch to sugar-web-template
> and will
> >                                 update my web
> >                                 activities.
> >
> >                                 The inspector is not working, it does not
> >                                 display.  It shoud display
> >                                 by Ctrl+Shift+I or by right-click ->
> "Inspect
> >                                 element".  There is no
> >                                 error in the logs and the API is there
> [2], but
> >                                 nothing is happening.
> >                                 Surprisingly, JavaScript console logs go
> to the
> >                                 activity log.  We are
> >                                 missing that in master.
> >
> >                                 I managed to keep the activity:// scheme
> that
> >                                 we need for the
> >                                 same-origin policy, but I still had to
> add the
> >                                 setting
> >                                 'enable-file-access-from-file-uris' to
> >                                 workaround the cross-site
> >                                 requests.  I can't find a way to
> register the
> >                                 URI scheme in WK1, so I
> >                                 added a big FIXME.
> >
> >                                 [1]
> http://build.laptop.org.au/xo/os/sugar-100/
> >                                 build-21/
> >                                 [2]
> http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkitgtk/
> >                                 stable/WebKitWebInspector.html
> >
> >
> >                                 --
> >                                 .. manuq ..
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