Re: 4.7.3 __IMAGE_DIR__ Variable Problem...

G'Day Stefan,

I don't mean to be a bother, but any idea on how long to a fix for this one? It
is REALLY a show stopper...

John Beima


Quoting "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <racke@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> John Beima <jbeima@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Wow was this ever a hard one to find...
> > 
> > Boy do you need a lot of ifs....
> > 
> > #01) UI must be in secure mode...
> > #02) SSL must be a different domain...
> > #03) Going into the UI https://www.domain2.com/cgi-bin/cat/admin/index
> works.
> > #04) Going into the UI http://www.domain1.com/cgi-bin/cat/admin/index
> and
> > letting the UI login screen hop you over to the SSL site causes this
> error...
> > It looks like it is possibly in the new image tag...
> > Actually just going back and doing step 03 fixes the problem...
> > 
> > The wierd thing is it is not session specific... Every visitor to the
> site from
> > then on in gets the wrong IMAGE_DIR variable...
> 
> Very well spotted, John. Congratulations. Mangling Config stuff is
> fine, because it is not persistent, but we shouldn't touch
> Variables as it seems. Jon, why we need to set IMAGE_DIR in
> UI_STD_HEAD ?
> 
> Variable UI_STD_INIT <<EOV
> [perl]
>       # determine catalog URL before mangling config URLs
>       $Scratch->{ui_catalog_url} = $Tag->area('index');
> 
>       # replace ImageDir variables with UI equivalents to take advantage
>       # of Interchange's automatic image path rewriting
>       $Config->{ImageDirOriginal} = $Config->{ImageDir};
>       $Config->{ImageDirSecureOriginal} = $Config->{ImageDirSecure};
>       $Config->{ImageDir} = $Variable->{IMAGE_DIR} =
>               $Tag->image( { ui => 1, secure => 0, dir_only => 1 } );
>       $Config->{ImageDirSecure} =
>               $Tag->image( { ui => 1, secure => 1, dir_only => 1 } );
> 
>       # force using secure URL for this page?
>       if ($Tag->var('UI_SECURE', 2)) {
>               $Config->{VendURL} = $Config->{SecureURL};
>       }
> 
>       ''
> [/perl]
> EOV
> 
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Quoting Jon Jensen <jon@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, John Beima wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Has anyone else found that fairly often the new 4.7.3 will
> overwrite
> > > the
> > > > __IMAGE_DIR__ variable with the contents of possibly
> > > __UI_IMAGE_DIR__?? What
> > > > mine winds up with is /interchange/en_US/ then breaking the link
> to
> > > all
> > > > images... This might also be a per session problem... However the
> only
> > > thing
> > > > that seems to solve it is logging in to the admin pages and going
> > > "Apply
> > > > Changes"... Then it will work for a short period of time again...
> > > 
> > > Perhaps some more details would help:
> > > 
> > > Are you using the same browser to access the storefront and the
> admin?
> > > 
> > > Do you have cookies enabled or disabled?
> > > 
> > > Does the problem happen if you never access the admin after starting
> > > your
> > > browser?
> > > 
> > > How many sessions from your IP address show up in the session list?
> > > 
> > > What pages have you visited in the admin?
> > > 
> > > I can understand how this could be bug, but it works fine for me.
> Even
> > > when going back and forth between store and admin with the same
> session
> > > ID, I don't have any trouble. Maybe your answers will shed more
> light.
> > > 
> > > Jon
> > > 
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> > 
> > 
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