[nodebb-plugin-camo] Make embedded images look secure!

Bri

@yariplus any ideas what this could be? Are you running node as root? What version are you on?

yariplus

@Bri I'm running as a regular user.

I've not been able to find anything useful yet based on that error.

I pushed another update that cleans up some things, maybe it will give us some more info.

My node version is v0.10.25

yariplus

Have you by chance tried re-installing the plugin? It installs camo from github, which can sometimes cause issues.

Edit: Also, I just noticed, this plugin doesn't consider that you may have camo installed globally, which may cause that error.

Bri

@yariplus I definitely haven't installed it globally. I can try and reinstall. I'm also wondering if the key has something to do with it? You were saying that if the internal proxy was selected, then you wouldn't need to specify a key? Looking at the code here, it's still trying to grab a key from the settings module.

So now the error looks the same, slightly different:

21/4 21:36 [19483] - info: [Camo]: Starting Camo worker...
21/4 21:36 [19483] - error: Error: spawn node ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:870:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:178:32)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:344:16)
    at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:437:9)
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:351:17)
Error: spawn node ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:870:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:178:32)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:344:16)
    at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:437:9)
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:351:17)

EDIT: Also, the new version (1.2.2) crashes nodebb, where 1.2.1 fails, but nodebb stays up

Bri

And if I go to node v0.10.25, npm rebuild and npm i:

21/4 22:23 [24989] - error: [CamoProxy]: 
events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: spawn ENOENT
    at errnoException (child_process.js:988:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:779:34)

I tried deleting the entire node_modules folder under nodebb, and reinstalling under node v0.10.25, and then manually installing [email protected]. Still getting that error

What env are you running on? Did you have to install anything special (like node-gyp or ...? )

Bri

Here's some more information: I can actually get it running this way, if I set the plugin to use an external camo instance, and then run camo (the one in your plugin as a dependency) like this:

~/NodeBB/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-camo/node_modules/camo$ /usr/bin/env PORT=8082 CAMO_KEY="<key generated by your plugin>" node server.js

yariplus

@Bri Just a normal Ubuntu LTS. Nothing in npm global, no node-gyp in nodebb directory.

I don't think the there's anything wrong with the key, it checks to make sure it's valid.

yariplus

@Bri Interesting, I can only think there must be something wrong with the path I give to spawn call.

Bri

@yariplus I found the problem, the child process wasn't getting the PATH variable from the parent env, so when child_process.spawn() was called on 'node' it didn't know where to find it. I've made a PR for you.

yariplus

Perfect! I figured it was something like that. Odd though.

Bri

Yeah, curious how it was working for you... I'm using nvm to manage node versions on my server, so it makes sense that the path to node would be different and require the right path in the PATH variable

yariplus

@Bri Mind testing the version I just pushed? I refactored a lot of code and got rid of the extra loader process.

Bri

Everything looks good! I deployed it to my prod server and am seeing messages in the logs from the camo server

yariplus

I pushed a small update that should make clustered setups work properly without needing a restart.

I also updated the source to use es2015, if anyone is interested in that.

julian

@yariplus mm, does that mean your plugin only works with Node v4/v5?

lenovouser

@julian nope, it is being compiled down to ES5 with babeljs IIRC

EDIT: Yes, it indeed is: https://github.com/minora-oss/nodebb-plugin-camo/blob/master/package.json#L50-L60

yariplus

Yep yep. The distributed code on NPM is babeled down. Works with node >=0.10.0

teh_g

Sorry for rezzing an old thread!

Does this make it so I don't need to manually setup Camo? Also, does this still work in the latest NodeBB?

lenovouser

@teh_g Yep, should still work and there is also the option that you don't have to set up camo manually thanks to @yariplus

teh_g

@lenovouser said in [nodebb-plugin-camo] Make embedded images look secure!:

@teh_g Yep, should still work and there is also the option that you don't have to set up camo manually thanks to @yariplus

Hmm, I will have to try this out. I was hoping to run camo and iframely on another box, but the documentation for doing that is terrible. This will at least make camo easier