Constant refreshing of interface

olivierlambert

XO 5 is rather old (almost 8 years old) and we are in the process of rewriting it entirely with a different technology

pdonias

@alexredston I've never seen that issue before. When you say that the UI refreshes, you mean that it's as if you clicked the refresh button of your browser? (Are you seeing a white page with a single loading spinner in the middle of the page?) If so, I'm not sure why you're saying that "this is a good behaviour".

alexredston

@pdonias Hi - yes exactly that - it is like I clicked refresh, so if you are creating a new VM the form gets wiped out for example, just before you complete it.

alexredston

@pdonias In terms of the good behaviour - it is good that content is up to date all the time on the view but my interface seems to be using a brutal approach to this, glad to hear that this is not considered normal.

alexredston

@olivierlambert Nice, no small task! Your company seems to take a very similar approach to ours in terms of just building difficult stuff.

alexredston

@pdonias I think I have found something - it only happens if you access XO using an IP address. I have server's IP listed as an alternate subject name on the cert so it should be okay but when I switch to using the full domain name, it stops refreshing.

alexredston

@pdonias IT is something to do with this fetch - perhaps that attempts to use http instead of https. You can see at the bottom of the timeline that as soon as it went to using the name of the site this stopped refreshing.

pdonias

@alexredston Thanks for the details. I'm trying to reproduce that behaviour but no luck so far. With or without HTTPS, with an IP address or with a domain name, I'm not able to reproduce

A few questions to try to understand what's happening:

Are you able to see the VMs in the interface?
What browser/version are you using?
Do you have some errors in the browser's console?
Are you able to reproduce the same behaviour in incognito mode? (Ctrl+Shift+N on Chrome, Ctrl+Shift+P on Firefox)

pdonias

Also, this issue may have been fixed by this commit: https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/commit/ef2bd2b59. Could you check if it's still happening after you update your XO?

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julien-f committed to vatesfr/xen-orchestra

fix(xo-server): better token check on HTTP request

It now checks that the user associated with the authentication token really exists.

This fixes xo-web infinite refresh when the token stored in cookies belongs to a missing user.

pdonias

And if it keeps happening, could you also try on the branch clearToken-on-authFailure that includes another potential fix for this bug?

alexredston

@pdonias

Hi,

On Master, as of yesterday, I see this only when I am logged in using an IP address on the URL instead of the hostname. Either way it is SSL with trusted certificate.

There are no console errors

Browser is Microsoft Edge on Windows

No difference in behaviour between incognito mode and normal.

Yes I see all the VMs

There is an improvement - now if I am creating a new VM only the selected network is reverting back to default when it refreshes, the other things like number of cores and ram is remaining when I set it, whereas previously these also were wiped back to default every 20 seconds or so.

Thanks

Alex