[Phpmyadmin-devel] GSoC Project - AJAX Error Reporting

[Rouslan Placella]

On 04/15/2013 07:16 PM, Abhishek Kandoi wrote:
> Hi Rouslan,
> 
> Thanks for replying. I was unable to reply properly using my SourceForge account.
  I have worked with a few mailing lists like Google Groups, but this
one seemed different to me.
  I didn't even get emails when you people replied on this thread
because I had my Digest Mode On,
  thus I didn't have an option to Reply to All.
> 
> I will be formatting manually for this time only, as I have no email to reply to.
  (Didn't wanna spoil the reply format)
> 
> Rouslan Placella wrote:
> 
>> Hi Abhishek,
>>
>> have you got a live demo of this application that I could try?
> 
> Yes, you can try it online at http://faceinbook.co.nr/flowork/home.html.

Out of curiosity, was the app a college project?

Also, I would like to hear from you about what you think are the
shortcomings of your implementation. Would you do anything differently
if you had to do it again from scratch?

>> From your email, I'm getting the feeling that you didn't fully
>> understand where the different components of the system will reside...
> 
> Yeah, I got it a bit wrong on the first go. But on reading the idea again I understood
  what exactly it is about.
> 
> 
>> The server-side component of this system will not be for the users of
>> phpMyAdmin or administrators of individual phpMyAdmin installations, it
>> will, instead, be used by the members of the phpMyAdmin development
>> team[0] to globally diagnose issues.
> 
> I thought a client-side component for handling errors as well as one for
diagnosing issues was suggested. But actually the suggestion was for a
client-side
component for sending errors to a server-side component with the data
containing
nothing that concerns the user about his/her privacy. Thus there is no
need of encryption
as you said, because the data contains no sensitive information.
> 
> 
> And also as you wrote that there is no means to check if a request is valid,
and hence no need for checking for authentication.
> 
> 
> I would be happy to implement what you suggested about restricting the number
of requests per IP to prevent the defacing of the server-system. Also I
will be
more than pleased to work on the server-side part to allow the
phpMyAdmin developers
to analyze and diagnose the errors.
> 
> 
> Also to prevent the back-end from attacks such as DoS you suggested a global limit
on the number of requests. It seems easy to implement but will play an
important role
against DoS attacks.
> 
> 
> I will reply back after I work out a plan for the server-side interface
and functioning for comments from you all.
> 
> 
> Rouslan Placella wrote:
> 
>> The wiki is pretty comprehensive on the matter. Do you have a more
>> specific question?
> 
> Yes, is there a place where I can upload a draft of my application
for my mentor to review it? If not, is posting it to the mailing list fine?

Not that I know of. You can post to the mailing list, but your draft
will be visible to other gsoc candidates.

Bye,
Rouslan

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