November 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Access denied 403 problem for anonymous users
by Tomas J. Fulopp 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Hi, I have a weird access denied 403 problem on one of my sites - see http://www.sententiae.org/ Only happens with anonymous access, and only for one content type (page). (The right column points to a different content type, and that shows fine.) I would think I'm a seasoned user but here I have no clue.. nodeaccess is off, taxonomy access is off, anonymous are allowed to see nodes, does not depend whether cache is off or on... any ideas, anybody? This site is not very important but if this happened on one of the crucial ones, I would have absolutely no solution! Any ideas what to check for - variables, cookie, etc. Let me know, please. I'm running D5.2. Tomáš / Vacilando PS I've also posted a support request at http://drupal.org/node/188956 but I doubt anybody would help with this one there, so I am sending it to this list to bring it to the attention of the devs.

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OT: anyone coming to LCA Melbourne?
by Simon Hobbs 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Hi dev. Any Drupal Rockstars considered coming to http://linux.conf.au? My company, with sponsorship from Lonely Planet, is holding a 1 day Drupal mini-conf on Sunday 3rd Feb (the day after LCA). And before I politely retreat to the drupalcon mailing list ... the venue rocks: -- catering -- bar -- wifi -- projector -- it's in AC/DC lane! -- bar -- city central, walking distance from LCA http://www.thealleybar.com.au/ Thanks for reading. Any questions it is probably best to contact me directly. Kind Regards Simon http://emspace.com.au

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portability issue with uid=0 being anonymous
by Christoph Otto (Volt) 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

I'm porting the Drupal 6 beta to run on the new sqlsrv driver for SQL Server 2005 and am running into some issues around the way uid 0 and 1 are set to anonymous and admin. The current code (modules/system/system.install line 249) inserts placeholders into uid = 1 and 2 then subtracts 1 from each uid via an UPDATE. This works fine for MySQL and PostgreSQL, but isn't portable to SQL Server 2005, which doesn't allow IDENTITY columns to be changed. (The only way I've found to do it is to create a new column and insert the new values, but this is not elegant.) My approach has been to add an 'initial value' key to the 'fields' array returned by hook_schema. If this value is set for a 'serial' field, the value will be the first in the sequence. Both PostgreSQL and SQL Server 2005 have ways to make an serial or IDENTITY column start at 0, but I haven't found a way that works for MySQL. (Adding AUTO_INCREMENT=0 to the end of the table definition silently fails, even with sqlmode=NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO.) The attached patch against CVS works correctly for PostgreSQL but breaks on MySQL. I'm not attached to any alternative way of making this port work and would appreciate any input. Thanks, Christoph Otto (Volt) a-chotto(a)microsoft.com Microsoft Open Source Software Lab

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Project maintainers needed urgently
by Earl Miles 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Several of my projects are effectively abandoned and need maintainers: Delicious -- I'd found a maintainer but that maintainer has never done anything. Forum Access ACL LiveJournal CrossPoster Taxonomy Lineage Taxonomy Redirect User Titles Most of these are fairly small projects. I just ask that anyone maintaining them be active enough to take care of these modules better than I do.

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This can not continue
by Karoly Negyesi 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Hi, With due acknowledgement of what Eddie Wong does for Drupal, I am now going public because this can not continue: Eddie, your followups most of the time are not relevant to the issue, and they are way too long. I am asking you in public to change -- please make your point in one or two sentences if at all possible and only if it is about the issue at hand. I asked this before in various issues without any effect. (To be more concrete: just what does clustering to with my db_lower patch??) I am quoting people from #drupal who also happens to work on the database layer (not me): Q: "Who is hswong3i, and why is he so obsessed with commercial clustering solutions?" A: "[...] he's so focused on Oracle to the exclusion of everything else, even when he then proposes patches that make life difficult for everyone except Oracle users, that I have to try hard to not oppose Oracle support on principle." Kind regards, NK Ps. To make sure, I BCC'd Eddie -- sorry if you got two copies.

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