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Re: [orion-dev] Fw: A complex plugin use case (number 1)
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thanks, Andrew.
Yes, I discussed this a bit with Simon. We know it's a very contrived example, and is making a lot of assumptions.
We are totally relying on the fact that the orion.eclipse.org data is marked "world readable" so that pixlr can access that URL without any authentication, etc. If the user had installed another file service (WebDAV, etc.) that required authentication, it wouldn't work either. We also have the reverse case when we need to retrieve the data (ie, getting the saved file from pixlr, or "apply patch from URL")....there may be authentication required for us to grab data from somewhere else. For the first case (getting the Orion data), we've talked about having the user be able to mark which files/folders in the workspace are readable, but as you point out, that doesn't solve the firewall issue. For the firewall case and localhost case, it obviously gets more involved....some kind of proxy server that can read the Orion data and make some of it available publically, or else an authentication handshake, etc.
Every time we talk about our cross site workflows we talk about the complications: authentication contexts, the workspace data being protected, the file system potentially living on a different server than Orion, etc. etc. The example doesn't handle any of this yet. But I'm using it to push on the scenario and identify the specific problems. I also think if we can get the "remote editor" example out there, people will try it and surface combinations of issues we haven't imagined yet.
susan
Andrew Eisenberg ---03/08/2012 10:33:48 AM---Hi Susan, I didn't want to derail the call, so I didn't mention this earlier. I
From: Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Orion developer discussions <orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03/08/2012 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [orion-dev] Fw: A complex plugin use case (number 1)
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Hi Susan,
I didn't want to derail the call, so I didn't mention this earlier. I tried your pixlr plugin. As a concept, the visual plugin looks nice, and opens up some big possibilities.
However, the pixlr plugin itself could not load the image I passed to it. I'm guessing this is because I am running Orion locally and the file:/ url for the image is being sent to pixlr on the remote server, which cannot be accessed.
This kind of problem will likely happen if you are behind a firewall and it shows a bit of a limitation on how information can be shared between the orion instance and the plugin.
I'm not sure of a good solution for this, but I wanted to let you know about the problem I had.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Susan Franklin McCourt <susan_franklin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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