Stream: IG creation
Topic: Bypassing PING dependency from IG Publisher scripts
Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 08 2021 at 16:56):
from this discussion, https://chat.fhir.org/#narrow/stream/179166-implementers/topic/Running.20IG.20publisher.20on.20corporate.20network
the use of Ping can pose problems for machines behind firewalls
Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 08 2021 at 17:00):
an alternative could be to allow the user to ignore the ping results and manually tell the script to proceed.
So when the ping works , there's no interaction. When the ping does not work, the user will be prompted to tell if they want to continue
Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 08 2021 at 17:00):
this does not block the CI builds because those are always supposed to be online
Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 08 2021 at 17:04):
the one problem I can imagine with this is when the tx server is down, then the ping would fail and the CI build would be waiting forever. For that, we can put a timeout in the prompt (if we don't reply "yes" within 10 seconds , the script fails
Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 08 2021 at 17:05):
thoughts? Ideas?
John Moehrke (Sep 08 2021 at 17:06):
this seems to be a edge case that can be handled locally.
John Moehrke (Sep 08 2021 at 17:08):
alternatively we could build an http based ping that would be less likely to get blocked by corporate policies, but even that is not a guarantee... and it might not work anyway.
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