[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH 0/3 WIP] Let frontend redirect user after logging

[Sheldon]

On 07/14/2014 06:16 AM, alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> From: Aline Manera <alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> This patch set removes useless files related to former login design and redirect
> user in frontend after logging - that way frontend can store user information
> for authorization matters.
>
> The patch 2 has 2 problems:
> 1) the next URL is encoded using base64
>     So in UI I need to decode it. How do I do that?
have checked the kimchi source code.
there is a base64 util in source code.
ui/js/novnc/base64.js

but we should check it is.

The alphabet of urlsafe_b64decode uses '-' instead of '+' and '_' 
instead of '/'.
>
> 2) while using kimchi.cookie.get() to get the lastPage it returns the URL with ""
>     So the redirection fails as it tries to redirect the user to "/#tabs/guests"
>     How do I remove those "" around the cookie value?
>
> Any help is welcome!
>
> Aline Manera (3):
>    Remove former login design files
>    Remove special console rules from nginx configuration
>    Let frontend redirect user after logging
>
>   src/kimchi/auth.py               |   6 --
>   src/kimchi/root.py               |  19 +-----
>   src/nginx.conf.in                |  11 ----
>   ui/js/src/kimchi.login.js        |  73 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>   ui/js/src/kimchi.login_window.js | 128 ---------------------------------------
>   ui/pages/login-window.html.tmpl  |  53 ----------------
>   ui/pages/login.html.tmpl         |  36 ++---------
>   7 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 248 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 ui/js/src/kimchi.login.js
>   delete mode 100644 ui/js/src/kimchi.login_window.js
>   delete mode 100644 ui/pages/login-window.html.tmpl
>


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Thanks and best regards!

Sheldon Feng(冯少合)<shaohef at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center