A website I am currently working on is currently responding to requests on http://www.mysite.com/dv with 301, where I would have expected a 404.
My site has no content item named DV, there is nothing in the site that corresponds to "DV", and I can't understand why on earth I am seeing this. I originally found these /DV/ URLs while looking at Google Webmaster Tools.
Then I used Fiddler to analyse the request and found
Response sent 26 bytes of Cookie data:
Set-Cookie: wwwwebsite#lang=DV; path=/
This appears to correspond to the Maldivian language. I did not enable this language, and it does not appear under /system/Languages.
I then noticed I can also navigate to http://www.mysite.com/de-CH which is not an enabled language on my site either, leading me to believe I will get results like this for every non-enabled language.
Is there a way to return 404 for unsupported languages in Sitecore?
Try seeing what your "languageEmbedding" value in the web.config is set to.
It can be set to the following: asNeeded | always | never
I would normally set it to "never" unless you have a site, which is set in multiplate languages, then set it to "always". The default is "asNeeded" which I frankly find kinda silly :)
The issue you are having sounds similar to http://sdn.sitecore.net/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?postid=51681 but I an't find DV in LanguageDefinitions.config. I am also able to replicate your error so I don't think it is environment specific to your implementation. Would suggest you contact Sitecore Support.
I don't believe this is actually related to languages at all. If you were to add any random characters in place of the DV, you'd still get a 302 redirect to a 404. Perhaps without the language cookie though.
You should follow the directions here to turn on server side error page redirects.
http://herskind.co.uk/blog/2012/03/sitecore-404-without-302
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I am currently trying to develop a web activity that a client would like to track via their Learning Management System. Their LMS uses the AICC standard (HACP binding), and they keep the actual learning objects on a separate content repository.
Right now I'm struggling with the types of communication between the LMS and the "course" given that they sit on two different servers. I'm able to retreive the sessionId and the aicc_url from the URL string when the course launches, and I can successfully post values to the aicc_url on the LMS.
The difficulty is that I can not read and parse the return response from the LMS (which is formatted as plain text). AICC stipulates that the course start with posting a "getParam" command to the aicc_url with the session id in order to retrieve information like completion status, bookmarking information from previous sessions, user ID information, etc, all of which I need.
I have tried three different approaches so far:
1 - I started with using jQuery (1.7) and AJAX, which is how I would typically go about a same-server implementation. This returned a "no transport" error on the XMLHttpRequest. After some forum reading, I tried making sure that the ajax call's crossdomain property was set to true, as well as a recommendation to insert $.support.cors = true above the ajax call, neither of which helped.
2 & 3 - I tried using an oldschool frameset with a form in a bottom frame which would submit and refresh with the returned text from the LMS and then reading that via javascript; and then a variation upon that using an iFrame as a target of an actual form with an onload handler to read and parse the contents. Both of these approaches worked in a same-server environment, but fail in the cross-domain environment.
I'm told that all the other courses running off the content repository bookmark as well as track completion, so obviously it is possible to read the return values from the LMS somehow; AICC is pitched frequently as working in cross-server scenarios, so I'm thinking there must be a frequently-used method to doing this in the AICC structure that I am overlooking. My forum searches so far haven't turned up anything that's gotten me much further, so if anyone has any experience in cross-domain AICC implementations I could certainly use recommendations!
The only idea I have left is to try setting up a PHP "relay" form on the same server as the course, and having the front-end page send values to that, and using the PHP to submit those to the LMS, and relay the return text from the LMS to the front-end iframe or ajax call so that it would be perceived as being within the same domain.... I'm not sure if there's a way to solve the issue without going server-side. It seems likely there must be a common solution to this within AICC.
Thanks in advance!
Edits and updates:
For anyone encountering similar problems, I found a few resources that may help explain the problem as well as some alternate solutions.
The first is specific to Plateau, a big player in the LMS industry that was acquired by Successfactors. It's some documentation that provide on setting up a proxy to handle cross-domain content:
http://content.plateausystems.com/ContentIntegration/content/support_files/Cross-domain_Proxlet_Installation.pdf
The second I found was a slide presentation from Successfactors that highlights the challenge of cross-domain content, and illustrates so back-end ideas for resolving it; including the use of reverse proxies. The relevant parts start around slide 21-22 (page 11 in the PDF).
http://www.successfactors.com/static/docs/successconnect/sf/successfactors-content-integration-turley.pdf
Hope that helps anyone else out there trying to resolve the same issues!
The answer in this post may lead you in the right direction:
Best Practice: Legitimate Cross-Site Scripting
I think you are on the right track with setting up a PHP "relay." I think this is similar to choice #1 in the answer from the other post and seems to make most sense with what you described in your question.
Where can I make changes if I want to make permanent changes in cookie-path value for my website. will that be in context.xml or web.xml or will that be using newCookie.setPath() method only? The server is Tomcat 6.0. I did look online but have not found anything, to the point.
Its just that there is some problem with the session tracking and admin thinks that this requires changing path of my session cookies from /site-folder to /. Is he wrong?
It might not be something considered good programming trick, but to change the sessioncookiepath value, web-app>METAINF>context.xml file is the place. For perticulary my problem, putting following code helped: Context sessionCookiePath="" This might be due to my website structure.
This suddenly stopped working. We have Google Analytics on our page and a couple of months ago we tweaked the code so that GA's cookies would only be set for www.igre123.com and not it's subdomains (we do a redirect from igre123.com to www.igre123.com, so that users are always using www.).
We did this because we have two subdomains that serve static content (css, js, thumbnails, etc) from (s.igre123.com and static.igre123com).
To prevent cookies being set for the subdomains (and only for www.) we modified our GA code to look something like this:
...
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName','www.igre123.com']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
...
This did the trick but now it's not working anymore. Anybody have some idea why this stopped working? Unfortunately I don't know when exactly this stopped working :/
edit: tracking otherwise works without a problem.
OK after much head banging I managed to solve this mystery. Turns out that the order of the _gaq.push([]);'s is relevant. If you have, besides the usual _setAccount and _trackPageView, any other GA calls (like _setCustomVar), that set cookies, you have to tell GA which domain to set cookies for first. Seems obvious in retrospect but to be fair, that's not really clear from the documentation.
Anyhow be sure to put the call to _setDomainNamefirst, and then any other GA calls you might have.
On very rate occasions, my error log is showing the following error:
"You specified a Fuseaction of registrationaction#close which is not defined in Circuit public."
The full link is:"http://myUrl/index.cfm?do=public.registrationAction#close"
As you can see, the has merely points to an anchor (close) on the page.
This code is working 99% of the time, but on the odd occasion, Coldfusion / Fusebox throws this error out.
Why is this happening?
Could it be related to the device accessing my page somehow? Like a cell phone or Apple product that for some reason does handle hashes the way I am expecting it to?
Could it be javascript / JQuery being disabled?
Any guidance would be appreciated
Thanks
I used to see stuff like that. Older versions of Internet Explorer were not handling the hashtag properly when there were URL parameters. The best solution I could come up with was kludgey at best, but basically it forced the anchor tag to separate from the URL parameter.
http://myUrl/index.cfm?do=public.registrationAction&#close
I'm not sure there is a simple answer to this. We get odd exceptions all the time on our site for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes it's people not using the site the way you expect and sometimes it stuff like you mention such as user-agent edge cases etc.
Basically you need to start to gather evidence and see what comes up that's unusual with these requests.
So to start: do you catch exceptions in you application? If so dumping all scopes (CGI/CLIENT/FORM/URL/SESSION) in an email along with the full exception and emailing them to a custom emails address (such as errors#yourdomain.com) will give you a reference you can square up to your error times and this might give you a hint as to the real issue.
Hope that helps some!
I am working on a DotNetNuke application using the iFinity URL Master module. (that may be irrelevant, as a solution may be platform independent)
What I have is a site with addresses based on language.
so
www.thesite.com/en/products/towels/redtowel
is the english version and
www.thesite.com/de/products/towels/redtowel
is the german version.
What I need to do is allow a user (who has already visited the site and set a cookie with their language) to be able to go to www.thesite.com/products/towels/redtowel and get to www.thesite.com/en/products/towels/redtowel if their cookie is set to english, and /de/products/towels/redtowel if it is set to german.
How would I do this?
if it was me and i didnt want to spend a lot of time programming I would look at something like this
http://www.snowcovered.com/snowcovered2/Default.aspx?tabid=242&PackageID=10059
then it could do a redirect based on the cookie - otherwise with iFinity I think you can do that sort of but not exactly. (I may be wrong on that - not a fan of iFinity url rewriter)