[docent_users] Re: AICC through a firewall?

Thanks - After fighting with the variations in AICC versions for a while, I realized we had
a firewall issue before even getting to the AICC stuff.

I saw that system vendor section in the code, and I'll probably end up doing some ugly
hard-coding to get around it and force it to use whatever combination of parameters we
end up needing.

--- In docent_users@yahoogroups.com, "Joe Kyle" <docentlist@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Joe Kyle
> --jjkd--
>
> --- 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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