Re: [pmg-devel] [PATCH http/common/manager/wt/backup/pmg v2] fix: #3971 Tasklog download button

[Stefan Sterz <s.sterz@proxmox.com>]

On 9/7/22 10:56, Daniel Tschlatscher wrote:
> This patch series' aim is to add a download button in the tasklog-
> viewer GUI so that users may access all parts of the tasklog more
> easily (The tasklog-viewer only displays 50 lines at a time).
> 
> For this change in the GUI (proxmox-widget-toolkit) there were revised
> implementations for all backends (PVE, PMG and PBS) needed.
> Now, when the parameter 'limit' for the /log API call is set to '0',
> the backends will stream the file rather than returning a JSON array
> with the corresponding lines. (Beforehand, it would return 0 lines)
> 
> I initially included a number of patches aimed at refactoring
> redundant implementations of downloading a file via a button click.
> However, after talking with Sterzy, Dominik and Aaron a bit about
> it, I decided to only send the "core" task log download patch series
> now, because the refactoring depends on the changes made in widget-
> toolkit, but is done in the same repositories as the backend patches.
> This would make both reviewing and applying them more confusing, and
> the refactoring patches are "a step removed" anyway from this patch
> series. Therefore, I am going to send a separate patch series for them
> later instead.
> 
> 
> During the implementation of the file stream download I found a bug
> concerning chromium browsers because of which downloads "randomly"
> fail.
> The problem was, when implementing the download through an html a tag
> and setting its property "download" to anything, (even undefined)
> with a not imported self-signed certificate, the download will fail
> once the SSL connection is reset.
> In my testing this was the case after about 5 seconds. This problem is
> especially pronounced in the PMG as there are less background calls in
> contrast to the PVE. The PBS, however, does not seem to suffer this
> error at all, because the SSL handshake timeout seems to not run out.
>  
> Without the 'download' attribute you can't set the filename though.
> The file will only have a proper name if the server adds the correct
> 'content-disposition' header. A few calls to the 'downloadAsFile'
> function set the filename anyway, because in most cases the browser
> frontend is making enough polling calls so that the SSL handshake
> does not have to be executed for the download. (That is also why it
> probably did not come up before)
> This problem does not apply in Firefox as far as I could tell.
> 
> See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=993362 for
> more information on this.
> 
> -- Changes from v1 --
> * Rewrote commit messages and cover letter
> * Got rid of some refactoring which were initially included
>   (going to send as own patch series later)
> * Rebased to current repository versions
> 
> 
> Daniel Tschlatscher (1):
>   make tasklog downloadable in the backup server backend
> 
>  src/api2/node/tasks.rs             | 159 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  4 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)
> 
> Daniel Tschlatscher (1):
>   stream file method for PMG and PVE
> 
>  src/PVE/Tools.pm | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
>  
> Daniel Tschlatscher (1):
>   acknowledge content-disposition header
> 
>  src/PVE/APIServer/AnyEvent.pm | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>  
> Daniel Tschlatscher (1):
>   Revised task log API call when parameter 'limit' is 0
> 
>  PVE/API2/Tasks.pm                 | 13 ++++++++++---
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>  
> Daniel Tschlatscher (1):
>   revised task log download function in the PMG backend
> 
>  src/PMG/API2/Tasks.pm | 34 +++++++++++-----------------------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> Daniel Tschlatscher (3):
>   Source file download call in central function
>   add task log download button in TaskViewer
> 
>  src/Utils.js              | 13 +++++++++++++
>  src/window/TaskViewer.js  | 17 +++++++++++++++--
>  src/window/FileBrowser.js | 11 +++++------
>  3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 

Other than one bug in `pmg-api` (see my other email) this series seems
to work as intended. The bug in `pmg-api` is fixed fairly easily by just
calling the right function and I tested that locally already. So unless
there are other considerations:

Tested-by: Stefan Sterz <s.sterz@proxmox.com>