The latest version of CloudforkSSO (version 1.1.0) on Pharo uses the Zinc-HTTP library. This library contains a good http client. Actually it contains multiple http clients, depending on your requirements you can pick one of them. One feature Zinc-HTTP doesn’t support (yet?) is secure http. Most of the OAuth and OpenID providers require https connections [...]
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CloudforkSSO on Pharo with stunnel
February 23, 2011CloudforkSSO – OpenID and OAuth support for Smalltalk
February 15, 2011With the CloudforkSSO library you can let the users of your Seaside web application login using their Google or Yahoo accounts. This works using the OpenID2 protocol. CloudforkSSO also contains OAuth support. With this protocol you can ask users for permission to access their data on other websites. Some providers that you can integrate with: [...]
EC2 AMI with Smalltalk and Seaside: Update 3
October 10, 2010Today I published a new version of the Amazon EC2 image with Smalltalk and Seaside. The third version contains the following software: Ubuntu Server 32bit 10.04 LTS (release 2010-09-23) Apache HTTP Server 2.2 SqueakVM 4.0.3.2202 Unix VM PharoCore 1.1.1 Seaside 3.0 The AMI identification: ami-c2fe0aab The update to the Ubuntu server makes it easier to [...]
A new public EC2 AMI with Smalltalk and Seaside
August 29, 2010This weekend I created a public Amazon Machine Image (AMI) setup as a Smalltalk web server with a Linux SqueakVM, a Pharo 1.1 Smalltalk image and the Apache2 web server. Anyone can use this AMI as a robust and scalable runtime platform for their Seaside applications. In this article I will try to explain how [...]
Amazon AWS Region Endpoints in Europe
June 1, 2010To use the Cloudfork classes for services located in Europe (Ireland), you need to change the serviceUrl property such as: Service URL SimpleDB sdb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com SQS eu-west-1.queue.amazonaws.com EC2 eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com SNS sns.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com S3 Set Bucket location constraint to EU RDS rds.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com A comprehensive list can be found over at Elastician
Testing Cloudfork AWS SimpleDB based classes
September 20, 2009The Cloudfork framework includes an alternate implementation of CFSimpleBase that stores all items in memory. The CFSimpleDBEmulator was initially created to support the unit testing of the ActiveItem framework. With the exception of some query constructs, it implements the complete api and therefore is suitable for unit testing your own applications as well. | emulator [...]
HTTP Clients for Squeak
May 25, 2009Cloudfork-AWS makes the Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3, SQS and SimpleDB easily accessible from Smalltalk. All the communication between the Smalltalk image and AWS is done via HTTP. So a HTTP Client is an important requirement for Cloudfork-AWS. Cloudfork-AWS needs more than just handling simple HTTP GET and POST requests, the following features are also [...]
Composition relations in Cloudfork-ActiveItem
April 20, 2009In UML, the composition relation between objects is a special association that is used to model a “private-container” relationship. The typical class-room example is the Car object having 4 Wheel objects. Although you can replace wheels on a car, one particular Wheel object is never shared with other Car objects. In Amazon SimpleDB there is [...]
Problems with Daylight saving time in VA Smalltalk
March 29, 2009All the requests that Cloudfork-AWS sends to the Amazon web services contain the current date and time in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). If this timestamp differs more than a few seconds from the current time you get an error. For example the S3 error: RequestTimeTooSkewed – The difference between the request time and the current [...]
