Confirmed: Safari cannot communicate with IGB's local REST endpoint. So we need to implement some kind of warning or alert to let Safari users know that they cannot install or upgrade Apps using the App Store interface. They should use a different browser or instead use the internal App Manager interface within IGB itself.

I just went through some articles regarding mixed content (https and http) for safari, apple blocked it so that there won't be any kind of malicious activity like injection or spoofing. 

Suggestion:

• Detect the browser as safari
• Host a endpoint on Appstore or Genome Browser which would contact the localhost to check for the endpoint
• Use the https endpoint hosted by appstore or genome dashboard
• Technically it would be a https - https connection ( Not sure if it will work though )

c.c. Nowlan Freese [~aloraine] Karthik Raveendran Philip Badzuh

Created a popup for users accessing App Store in Safari browser.
Dr. [~aloraine] and Sameer Shanbhag, Please review my changes.
Link for my branch: https://bitbucket.org/supreeth27/appstore/branch/IGBF-2674#diff

Dr. [~aloraine], Please let me know the error message that need to be displayed when user is using Appstore in Safari?

Deploying the branch onto https://devappstore3.bioviz.org for testing prior to PR using playbook settings:

branch: IGBF-2674
appstore_repo: https://bitbucket.org/supreeth27/appstore.git

attn: Sai Supreeth Segu, Chirag Chandrahas Shetty, Sameer Shanbhag

Please test Safari, Chrome, Firefox to ensure that

• When visiting with Safari, it is clear that the user cannot use app store to install or update an app into IGB
• When visiting with Chrome or Firefox, the user can continue to use app store to install an app into IGB

Please see comment and commence testing of your branch IGBF-2674 deployed on https://devappstore3.bioviz.org

Dr. [~aloraine] I haven't disabled the install an app button. I have made changes for that pushed them on my branch.
Please review my changes.
Link for my branch: https://bitbucket.org/supreeth27/appstore/branch/IGBF-2674#diff

Thank you for the update!

I have a git-related request:

• Can you modify your branch (or make a new branch altogether if you prefer) so that the branched-off-from commit is actually the current tip of the master branch and also there is only one commit in the branch?

Dr. [~aloraine], There are 2 commits in IGBF-2674 branch and it's currently on top of the master branch. However, I have created a new branch IGBF-2674-1 by squashing the 2 commits to 1 commit. Both the branches are on top of the master branch.
Link for the new branch: https://bitbucket.org/supreeth27/appstore/branch/IGBF-2674-1#diff

Sorry, it looks like the new branch maybe is not actually branching off of the latest commit to the master branch?

Please take a look at the following workflow. I think it will work.

# stash anything you are working on so you can apply those changes later if you want
git stash 
# switch over the master (main) branch
git checkout master 
# get all the changes from the team repo
# you may need to use "git add remote" command to connect "upstream" to the address of the team repo
git pull upstream master
# now make your new branch
git checkout -b new-branch-name
# make a copy of the commit you already made and add it to the new branch; it will receive a totally
# new git hash, btw
git cherrypick git-hash-for-the-single-commit-you-want-to-apply
# commit your work
git commit -m "a nice message"
# now push the new branch to your fork, aliased by default to the word "origin"
git push origin new-branch-name

I have updated my master branch and rebased my current branch onto master branch.
Link for the new branch: https://bitbucket.org/supreeth27/appstore/branch/IGBF-2674-1#diff

Apologies – the tip of the master branch is now an entirely new commit - https://bitbucket.org/lorainelab/appstore/commits/92f7ac6b699cfe5b54618bce40f4b2e6d5c36897.

This will probably stay the tip for another hour. Would you be able to make a new branch off this commit now?

Merged into master branch and deployed to https://devappstore5.bioviz.org for testing.

I have already rebased my branch with Chirag's commit(IGBF-2709) and created a branch.
To make sure I have created a pull request as well and bitbucket is not showing any message saying that the branch is behind some commits. In general if the branch submitted for PR is behind the master, BitBucket will show the message.

Philip Badzuh - could you review and test the workflow?

When testing, I noticed that appstore styling does not render properly in safari. See the screenshot here. Please confirm. Assigning to Sai Supreeth Segu and moving back to to-do.

This may be an ansible/menu bar issue. I also noticed that the bioviz connect page doesn't load the menu bar properly in safari. See a screenshot . This is what the menu bar looks like on load, there is an error in the console:

[Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) (lightbox.min.map, line 0)

, and after ~5 seconds the menu bar components load.

Regarding the issue with bioviz menu bar, this issue persists in test.bioviz.org as well. So, I think the issue is due to the change made on IGBF-2729. We need to revert this commit for getting everything back to normal
Attn: Chirag Chandrahas Shetty, Philip Badzuh and Dr. [~aloraine]

Sai Supreeth Segu - Can you please confirm the error is now gone on test.bioviz.org and devappstore3/5 ?

If yes, please request Philip Badzuh to re-test on Safari browser.

I have tested devappstore3/5 and test.bioviz.org on Safari, the issue is fixed now. Philip Badzuh Please review this ticket (IGBF-2674) on Safari browser

I am still seeing the issue of the menu bar not loading properly on the bioviz connect page - it is either rendered after a 3+ second delay or not at all...This is also present when using google chrome. I'm not sure what commit is responsible, but this is present on the production site - bioviz.org, so it may have also been the result of a change introduced before those made in this ticket. Maybe a new bug ticket should be made to fix the issue.

The other styling issue is fixed, however, and the safari warning/notification banner works as expected.

Yes that issue still exists and it's in production. So, the issue might be with the code in bioviz.org. Please create a new ticket for that issue and please kindly check whether this issue is fixed or not.
cc: Philip Badzuh

I'll make that ticket. Moving this to done.

Philip Badzuh I'm not sure but the delay might be because the application is not able to load https://www.bioviz.org/js/lightbox.min.map file.

Yeah, I saw that in the console, but checking out at an earlier commit, that error is logged, but the delay isn't present, so that must be a separate problem.