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

[Aline Manera]

On 07/14/2014 02:44 AM, Sheldon wrote:
> 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 '/'.

Thanks, Sheldon!
I tried it without luck so I will use lastPage cookie to store the next_url
That way we keep consistence from where get the next page info

>>
>> 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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