[docent_users] Re: AICC through a firewall?

Ya, good luck...

The AICC code is a real mess. I had quite a 'discussion' with STS
tech support regarding this, to no avail. One of the problems is that
regardless of what you do or don't do with version numbers, the code
will make its own decisions as to how to handle things, based on
other, poorly-documented criteria. As you've indicated, this can mean
wrong launch links, bad URLs (a supplied FQDN replaced arbitrarily)
and so forth. I don't think the code they added for
"AICC_SCORM_REVERSE_PROXY_MAP" functionality really works the way they
say it does, and I believe it interacts with the arbitrary code they
have for deciding whether to use HACP or JSAPI based on trying to
parse systemVendor.

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Joe Kyle
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--- In docent_users@yahoogroups.com, "Ellen" <ellenm1@...> wrote:
>
> Hi again!
>
> One of our departments wants to buy a bunch of courses that will be
hosted by an outside
> vendor. I haven't worked much with AICC and am wondering if it is
possible to get such
> courses working with Docent? I would have thought that maybe if the
course gets
> downloaded, and all communication is from the browser back to
docent, things would be
> fine, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
>
> I've tried varying the AICC version numbers in the course structure
file, and I get different
> behaviors out of docent:
>
> v. 6: (what the CRS arrived with) causes the docent to try to launch
the aicc_frameset on
> the outside server. Of course it doesn't exist there, so you get a 404.
>
> v. 2.0: launches the course directly but the aicc_url does not have
an http:// on it.
>
> Then I noticed this note in lib/aicc.jsm
> " Update the CRS version of the course structure file to 3.4 or
later to
> indicate to the LMS that the aicc_url is to be specified as a
full URL."
>
> So, I tried v.3.4:
>
> v. 3.4; Docent went back to launching the aicc_frameset in the wrong
spot so I hardcoded
> it (this is a test server) to launch the aicc_frameset on the lms
server. When I launched the
> course, it did indeed create the entire aicc_url, including the
http://. But there still is no
> communication.
>
> I am sort of stuck - is there any way around this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ellen
>
>
>
>
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