scratch.mit.edu/?user=<username>&password=<password> has the old frontpage.

kvackkvack

So if you go to https://scratch.mit.edu/?user=<your_username>&password=<your_password> the old frontpage appears instead of the new one??? Is this happening for anybody else? Seems weird that this would be a thing, but this could be useful for the people who hate the new frontpage.

Last edited by kvackkvack (Oct. 30, 2015 20:09:34)

__init__

I get it too

thisandagain pls explain

kvackkvack

__init__ wrote:
I get it too

Huh.

djdolphin

https://scratch.mit.edu/? works too.

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kvackkvack

djdolphin wrote:
https://scratch.mit.edu/? works too.

Userscript for getting the old frontpage back, then:

if(window.location.href == "https://scratch.mit.edu/") {
    window.location = "https://scratch.mit.edu/?"
}

Probably terrible code.

Last edited by kvackkvack (Nov. 7, 2015 19:39:33)

comp09

It looks like they are just rewriting “/” to staging.scratch.mit.edu. How hacky.

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Firedrake969

So they're checking that GET isn't passing variables, and redirecting based on that? (because django url routing doesn't care about the ? params)
why?

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comp09

Firedrake969 wrote:
So they're checking that GET isn't passing variables, and redirecting based on that? (because django url routing doesn't care about the ? params)
why?

I have a feeling they are doing the routing at the Varnish level.

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__init__

Thisandagain pls explain

thisandagain pls explain

Rumanti

__init__ wrote:
Thisandagain pls explain

^ Could not be more accurate..

:wq

Firedrake969

comp09 wrote:
Firedrake969 wrote:
So they're checking that GET isn't passing variables, and redirecting based on that? (because django url routing doesn't care about the ? params)
why?
I have a feeling they are doing the routing at the Varnish level.

If you mean Varnish cache, probably not, because it's a cache (unless I'm missing something?)
Django doesn't really work without URL routing, and the forums are pretty integrated with the main site, so I'm fairly sure Django is doing the routing.

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CatsUnited

kvackkvack wrote:
Probably terrible code.

Might seem bad but it works.

__init__ wrote:
Thisandagain pls explain

+1337

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comp09

Firedrake969 wrote:
comp09 wrote:
Firedrake969 wrote:
So they're checking that GET isn't passing variables, and redirecting based on that? (because django url routing doesn't care about the ? params)
why?
I have a feeling they are doing the routing at the Varnish level.
If you mean Varnish cache, probably not, because it's a cache (unless I'm missing something?)
Django doesn't really work without URL routing, and the forums are pretty integrated with the main site, so I'm fairly sure Django is doing the routing.

Varnish is the application that you hit when you visit Scratch. It's a caching reverse proxy.

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Firedrake969

Makes sense.

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PullJosh

Rumanti wrote:
__init__ wrote:
Thisandagain pls explain
^ Could not be more accurate..

It'll take a while to get used to not having to just guess all the time. xD

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Jonathan50

comp09 wrote:
Varnish is the application that you hit when you visit Scratch. It's a caching reverse proxy.

I thought Scratch used nginx… what's the difference?

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comp09

Jonathan50 wrote:
comp09 wrote:
Varnish is the application that you hit when you visit Scratch. It's a caching reverse proxy.
I thought Scratch used nginx… what's the difference?

Why use Varnish when you can use

Jokes aside, nginx is an all in one cache/proxy/web server, while Varnish is just for the high speed caching.

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Jonathan50

What does Scratch use then? Varnish and/or nginx?

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comp09

Jonathan50 wrote:
What does Scratch use then? Varnish and/or nginx?

I think they just use Varnish in front of Django.

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Jonathan50

comp09 wrote:
Jonathan50 wrote:
What does Scratch use then? Varnish and/or nginx?
I think they just use Varnish in front of Django.

?
On Scratch 1.4 you got nginx error messages and in scratch 2.0 going to http://scratch.mit.edu:443 used to give an nginx error message (it just doesn't respond anymore)
I just tested it now and there is no Server header but there are these:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges:bytes
Age:374903
Cache-Control:public, max-age=31536000
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Encoding:gzip
Content-Length:1083
Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8
Date:Sat, 31 Oct 2015 03:27:14 GMT
Etag:W/"ab09c697e646dc152ce9aaeb39db7bce"
Fastly-Debug-Digest:026dcf2a00ef3a49ed5ca70cd169ec69eeb2e90e9bfe7e2550a32454d86d76e1
Vary:Accept-Encoding
Via:1.1 varnish
Via:1.1 varnish
X-Cache:HIT, HIT
X-Cache-Hits:1, 5576
X-Served-By:cache-iad2150-IAD, cache-akl6420-AKL
X-Timer:S1446262034.429249,VS0,VE0

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