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# Copyright (C) 2007-2008 The University of Melbourne
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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# This is a mod_python handler program. The correct way to call it is to have
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# Apache send all requests to be handled by the module 'dispatch'.
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# Top-level handler. Handles all requests to all pages in IVLE.
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# Handles authentication (not authorization).
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# Then passes the request along to the appropriate ivle app.
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from mod_python import apache
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from request import Request
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from common import (util, forumutil)
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"""Handles a request which may be to anywhere in the site except media.
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Intended to be called by mod_python, as a handler.
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req: An Apache request object.
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# Make the request object into an IVLE request which can be passed to apps
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req = Request(req, html.write_html_head)
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# Check req.app to see if it is valid. 404 if not.
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if req.app is not None and req.app not in conf.apps.app_url:
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# Maybe it is a special app!
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if req.app == 'logout':
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# TODO: Nicer 404 message?
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req.throw_error(Request.HTTP_NOT_FOUND)
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# Special handling for public mode - just call public app and get out
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# NOTE: This will not behave correctly if the public app uses
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# write_html_head_foot, but "serve" does not.
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app = conf.apps.app_url[conf.apps.public_app]
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apps.call_app(app.dir, req)
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# app is the App object for the chosen app
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app = conf.apps.app_url[conf.apps.default_app]
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app = conf.apps.app_url[req.app]
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# Check if app requires auth. If so, perform authentication and login.
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# This will either return a User object, None, or perform a redirect
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# which we will not catch here.
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req.user = login.login(req)
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logged_in = req.user is not None
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req.user = login.get_user_details(req)
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# Keep the user's session alive by writing to the session object.
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# req.get_session().save()
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# Well, it's a fine idea, but it creates considerable grief in the
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# concurrent update department, so instead, we'll just make the
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# sessions not time out.
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# If user did not specify an app, HTTP redirect to default app and
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req.throw_redirect(util.make_path(conf.apps.default_app))
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# Set the default title to the app's tab name, if any. Otherwise URL
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if app.name is not None:
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# Call the specified app with the request object
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apps.call_app(app.dir, req)
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# if not logged in, login.login will have written the login box.
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# Just clean up and exit.
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# MAKE SURE we write the HTTP (and possibly HTML) header. This
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# wouldn't happen if nothing else ever got written, so we have to make
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req.ensure_headers_written()
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# When done, write out the HTML footer if the app has requested it
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if req.write_html_head_foot:
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html.write_html_foot(req)
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# Note: Apache will not write custom HTML error messages here.
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# Use req.throw_error to do that.
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"""Log out the current user (if any) by destroying the session state.
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Then redirect to the top-level IVLE page."""
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session = req.get_session()
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req.add_cookie(forumutil.invalidated_forum_cookie())
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req.throw_redirect(util.make_path(''))