[Babase] upcen and logins and such

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Fri Feb 1 16:11:08 EST 2008


On 02/01/2008 02:17:30 PM, kfenn wrote:

> It's OK.  Upcen was trying to upload to Babase_test so there really  
> was a duplicate.
>  If I leave the window alone for too long (like maybe 5 min), it  
> resets itself and for some reason it went back to babase_test...?  I  
> don't know why because I'd been working in babase all day, but maybe  
> that's a safety feature.
> 
> Sorry to make you waste your time.  It just reset itself and I didn't  
> even notice.

It's not a waste of time.  There's a problem here somewhere.

We can't have you changing babase_test when you think you're
doing things in babase.

There's a couple of things to note.  One is that (IIRC you
can check the docs and try things out but I'm 99% sure) all the Babase
programs upload, upcen, etc., share a login.  If you change
the db or whatever in one then any operation you perform in another
will use the new db etc.  That is, within one browser.  If you've
two different computers then each are independent.

Note also that the garbage collection interval is 24 minutes,
which means that although your login is supposed to last an
hour if it's lasting only 24 minutes then I need to know
and I can increase this.  That might get rid of the funny
behavior.  (I don't think the garbage collector will collect
an "active" login session, but I could be wrong.)

Finally, there's the issue of browsers that automatically
fill out forms or suggest things in drop-down lists as you
type, etc.  Everybody configures this differently so I'm
not much help here other than to note that this sort of
thing could, possibly, be why you "automatically" wind
up in babase_test.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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