Okay, so, I’ve been working on this project lately, and let me tell you, it’s been a bit of a headache. The thing is, we’ve got this setup where we need to make sure our master servers are, you know, properly flagged as “signed”.
I spent the whole day trying to figure this out. First, I went through all our server configurations, making sure everything looked right.
- Checked the server settings: I double-checked all the configurations on our master servers. Made sure there weren’t any weird settings causing issues.
Then, I started digging into the code. We are using VS Code. But when I tried to install some extensions to help with this, our firewall just wouldn’t let me. Kept saying it didn’t trust something in the chain. It didn’t really give me a clear error message, just a vague feeling of “nope, not happening”.
- Tried installing extensions: I attempted to add some extensions in VS Code to help with the code. But that didn’t work, I was blocked.
So, after banging my head against the wall for a while, I thought, “maybe it’s a URL encoding issue?” I’ve dealt with those before. Sometimes, special characters in URLs can mess things up. I tried using an online URL decoder, but that didn’t really help.
- Experimented with URL encoding: I thought maybe the issue was with how URLs were being encoded. I tried decoding some URLs online, but that wasn’t it.
Then, a colleague mentioned something about OAuth. Apparently, clients need to direct a user’s browser to an authorization server to start this OAuth thing. We could use either the authorization code grant type or the implicit grant. It was a mess. So, I didn’t really get into that.
- Looked into OAuth: A colleague suggested OAuth might be related, but it seemed too complicated for this, so I skipped it.
After a while, I stumbled upon some HTTP client functions. I’m not a huge fan of digging into that kind of stuff, but hey, when you’re desperate, you’re desperate. I played around with those for a bit, no luck.
- Explored HTTP client functions: I even tried messing with some HTTP client functions, but that didn’t lead anywhere.
I almost gave up, but then I remembered something about commenting out licenses in configuration files. I use MDK. There’s this ini file, and I thought, “What if I just comment out the free license line?” So I did. I opened up the MDK’s ini file, found the STM free license part, and commented it out.
- Commented out the license: I remembered that sometimes commenting out licenses in config files can fix things. I commented out the STM free license in MDK’s ini file.
And guess what? It worked! I have no idea why, but it did. Suddenly, the “signed” flag on our master servers was all good. I was so relieved. All that work finally paid off. I still don’t really understand why that license thing was the issue, but hey, I’m not complaining. It works now, and that’s all that matters.
- It worked!: To my surprise, commenting out the license actually fixed the issue! The “signed” flag appeared correctly on the master servers.
I just wanted to share this in case anyone else runs into a similar problem. It might save you some time and frustration. At least it would remind me of how I did it.
Finally
So, yeah, that’s my story. It was a long day, but I learned a lot. And hey, maybe commenting out licenses is the solution to all our problems. Who knows?
