[Developers] changes to the sandbox environment

[Alec Flett]

On Mar 11, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Tom Morris wrote:

> Hi Michael.  Thanks for the head up.  As regards the host name, I
> switched to the hyphenated version after being informed that the
> dotted version was unreliable vis a vis cookies, but for any geo
> related work, I've had to switch back to the dotted version (ie
> sandbox.freebox.com) to get the Google Maps to work.
>
Yep, sorry about that. We'll have a fix out for the maps stuff in the  
next two or three days. We have the key internally just haven't pushed  
it out to sandbox yet.

> Do you think you guys could apply for a second map key so that maps
> will work with sandbox-freebase.com?  It's a pain to have to keep
> switching back and forth.

I believe the SSL certificate is on its way as well.

Alec

>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Michael Masouras  
> <michael at metaweb.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> As part of our effort to make new code and features available more
>> quickly, we will be making more heavy use of our sandbox environment.
>> This will mainly affect user-facing features (html pages) rather than
>> APIs. If you see these changes affecting your use of that  
>> environment,
>> please let us know through this mailing list.
>>
>> We have also set-up a new domain name: http://www.sandbox-
>> freebase.com , that will isolate it better from our production
>> environment (mainly for cookie-related issues). We 'd like to use  
>> this
>> URL going forward, but we do not intend to eliminate
>> sandbox.freebase.com yet, so any software you have that uses the old
>> URL will still work for quite some time. However, this is a very good
>> time to switch to the new URL and give us any feedback if something
>> doesn't work for you.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
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