Assignment

Hi Wen,

the old plugin uses the "clients" browser to connect to turnitin, so any proxy settings etc are taken from the users's browser. the version I've written it's the server itself that makes the call.

initially it uses the function in filelib: download_file_content which takes note of any proxy settings you have set up in admin >server> HTTP
this call is what is failing for you. - are you sure that you don't have a proxy or a firewall that prevents outgoing connections directly from your server to the outside world?

BUT - this function isn't used for ALL tii api calls as the function doesn't support POST which is needed for some api calls

Some calls are made using an internal lib function which doesn't take note of your proxy settings. - I need to create a new function which does this and allows POST with a similar function to download_file_content()

thanks,



Dan

...so at this stage, the code requires unrestricted outgoing http access without using a proxy.

Hi Wen,
Sorry for the late reply.

My test server is unfortunately not internet accessible. Though may be over the next month.

At present in very much in beta release. We are at the moment considering whether or not to have a small test group of students use Turnitin through Moodle but I think I might wait a term.

To answer the other questions:
1. Yes it is integrated with Gradebook.
2. Does not work with backup and restore.
3. There is a bug in the zip file attached to this discussion where if the dates are "Disabled" the course is not created on Turnitin upon the initial creation of the Turnitin assignment. I submitted a patch for this, http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-548, and Dan has integrated it into his git development server.

Please note that Dan's git server has patches that the zip file attached above does not.

Jason

Thanks Dan, that solves the first part of the problem, however, I now get the following error:

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Any thoughts?