Who wants to test domain mapping for Tabulas? Leave a comment and help me out! If you want to start the process, you can point the DNS A record for your domain (or subdomain) to 67.15.181.21; leave a comment with your (sub)-domain you're pointing over, and I'll set it up.

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I decided that not displaying the site when a browser doesn't accept cookies is a pretty shoddy implementation. So I tried out something new today.

Whenever a request to a non-standard hostname comes in (a non-tabulas domain name), and the user is not logged in to that domain, a javascript is embedded from tabulas.com. This script will detect if you're logged into tabulas.com or not; if it detects you are, it will redirect you to tabulas.com, which then does some magic and redirects you back to your domain name asking it to set some cookie credentials. The only drawback is that this requires Javascript, but that seems to be a pretty decent trade-off.

I switched out the logout code path for Tabulas to also reset a user-specific salt (which is used in generating your cookie hash); this means that logging out once will log out all your sessions on all other domains, since the salt will have changed.

All in all, a pretty productive two nights for Tabulas.

If you've like to help test out domain mapping to Tabulas usernames, please drop me a comment. I expect the feature to be slightly buggy, so it'd really help me out to have more eyes look over it.