PhantomJS - Unable to decode

mmmichael · July 4, 2017, 10:23am

Hello,

I currently use an self hosted Version of IN with https://phantomjscloud.com/ integration (free plan with own api key).
But currently I get the error-message “[2017-07-04 20:18:55] production.ERROR: PhantomJS - Unable to decode: …” in the errorlog, when sending an invoice via email (attach invoice option is selected).

What could be the problem?

Thanks,
Michael

hillel · July 4, 2017, 10:27am

I’m not sure, has anything else changed?

You can either try using local PhantomJS instead or debug the code.

mmmichael · July 4, 2017, 10:30am

Hi, I had the probelm from the beginning on. First I thought the problem is the demo key, but not with the free key there should be no further problems.

How can I debug the error without installing phantomJS local?

mmmichael · July 4, 2017, 10:34am

Could there be some sort of memory/ressource limits that cause the problems?

hillel · July 4, 2017, 10:34am

Is your app publicly accessible?

mmmichael · July 4, 2017, 10:36am

yes!

hillel · July 4, 2017, 10:41am

Can you email the full error message to contact@invoiceninja.com

Also, is there an error before the one listed above.

hillel · July 4, 2017, 7:52pm

Thanks for the log file, can you check that you have a value set for PHANTOMJS_SECRET in the .env file.

http://docs.invoiceninja.com/en/latest/configure.html#troubleshooting

mmmichael · July 4, 2017, 8:23pm

Yes, the PHANTOMJS_SECRET is set, but has the default value :(.

hillel · July 4, 2017, 8:29pm

I’m not sure I understand ‘default value’, it just needs to be a random string.

mmmichael · July 5, 2017, 4:12am

First I switched to an local version of phantomjs and real time sending, but this caused the same problem.

I now switched to queuing the mails and executing /usr/local/pd-admin2/bin/php5-5.6-cli -c /home/billisbc/php-cli.ini artisan queue:listen all 5 minutes.

I found the tipp in https://www.invoiceninja.com/forums/topic/local-phantomjs-pdf-generation/

Maybe it has something to do with https://www.invoiceninja.com/forums/topic/local-phantomjs-pdf-generation/#post-6072

mmmichael · July 6, 2017, 11:03am

I found the reason for all this problems :(:

The phantomJS Link was password protected because of the settings that clients should insert an Password.
https://xxxxxx.xxxxx.de/view/wcslfgmsyon5j1ncpsvonh8vefcg3fhe?phantomjs=true&renderType=html

After disabling the Password-Protection, everything works fine.

I don’t understand why the following does’nt worked:

PhantomJS Secret

This enables the PhantomJS request to bypass client authorization.

hillel · July 6, 2017, 11:04am

The link you posted doesn’t have the phantomjs_secret property set.

mmmichael · July 6, 2017, 11:51am

Yes, I saw it and understood it now.

But I don’t understand, why it is missing? Below the call to phantomjscloud. And PHANTOMJS_SECRET is set in den env File.

http://api.phantomjscloud.com/api/browser/v2/ak-4we1b-jbtvg-zrgeg-faaaw-aaxdp/?request={url:“https://xxxx.xxxx.de/view/wcslfgmsyon5j1ncpsvonh8vefcg3fhe?phantomjs=true”,renderType:“html”} {“context”:“PHP”,“user_id”:1,“account_id”:1,“user_name”:“Michael Bur am Orde”,“method”:“GET”,“url”:“https://billing.servantful.de”,“previous”:“https://xxx.xxxx.de/settings/system_settings",“user_agent”:"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36”,“ip”:“93.238.86.20”,“count”:3,“is_console”:“yes”,“is_api”:“no”,“db_server”:“mysql”} []

hillel · July 6, 2017, 6:59pm

I think I see the problem, we’ll include a fix with our next release.

mmmichael · July 6, 2017, 10:18pm

I think in the phantomjscloud call die “request” URLs misses the secret key. I tried to add it but got an other error message. Please send me the link to die github-push which fixes this problem.

hillel · July 9, 2017, 10:09pm

Here’s the fix:

https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/commit/1d2c5f5b59ea1f15366e90581fe8067e05010560

mmmichael · July 19, 2017, 12:39am

Hi Coren,

yesterday i updated to version 3.5.0 and was not able to generate invoices via cloudphantomjs.

The error from them was:
{“message”:"Error extracting userRequest. ",“statusCode”:400}

Now I use the old url without secret and everything works fine!

Just for INfo!

hillel · July 19, 2017, 12:46am

Thanks for the info, I’ll look into the error.

it-support · July 30, 2017, 5:01am

I have a similar problem. Since i updated from 2.7.2 to 3.5.1 mails are send without invoice attached. I use local phantomjs 2.1.1
In laravel-error.log there is the message:

<em>
[2017-07-30 14:54:52] production.ERROR: PhantomJS - Unable to decode:                                  Invoice Ninja | Kostenlose Online Open-Source Rechnungsausstellung                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               var NINJA = NINJA || {};         NINJA.fontSize = 9;         NINJA.isRegistered = false;          window.onerror = function (errorMsg, url,     lineNumber, column, error) {             if (errorMsg.indexOf('Script error.') > -1) {                 return;             }              try {                 // Use StackTraceJS to p    arse the error context                 if (error) {                     var message = error.message ? error.message : error;                     StackTrace.fromError(error).then(functio    n (result) {                         var gps = new StackTraceGPS();                         gps.findFunctionName(result[0]).then(function (result) {                             logError    (errorMsg + ': ' + JSON.stringify(result));                         });                     });                 } else {                     logError(errorMsg);                 }                      trackEvent('/error', errorMsg);             } catch (err) {             }              return false;         }          function logError(message) {             $.ajax({                     type: 'GET',                 url: 'https://rpi.it-support-ffm.de/ninja/public/log_error',                 data: 'error=' + encodeURIComponent(message) + '&url=' + encodeURIC    omponent(window.location)             });         }          // http://t4t5.github.io/sweetalert/         function sweetConfirm(success, text, title) {             title = title || "Bis    t du dir sicher?";             swal({                 //type: "warning",                 //confirmButtonColor: "#DD6B55",                 title: title,                 text: text,                     cancelButtonText: "Nein",                 confirmButtonText: "Ja",                 showCancelButton: true,                 closeOnConfirm: false,                 allowOutside    Click: true,             }).then(function() {                 success();                 swal.close();             });         }          /* Set the defaults for DataTables initialisati    on */         $.extend(true, $.fn.dataTable.defaults, {             "bSortClasses": false,             "sDom": "tl",             "sPaginationType": "bootstrap",             "bInfo": tru    e,             "oLanguage": {                 'sEmptyTable': "Es sind keine Daten vorhanden",                 'sLengthMenu': '_MENU_ Zeilen',                 'sInfo': "Zeige Eintrag _ST    ART_ bis _END_ von _TOTAL_",                 'sSearch': ''             }         });          /* This causes problems with some languages. ie, fr_CA          var appLocale = 'de';              */                  function fbq() {             // do nothing         }         ;                          window._fbq = window._fbq || [];        {"context":"PHP","user_id":1,"acc    ount_id":"1","user_name":"Invoice User 1","method":"PUT","url":"https://server1/ninja/public/invoices/36","previous":"https://server1/ninja/public/invoice    s/36/edit","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko","ip":"1</em>92.168.0.1","count":1,"is_console":"no","is_api":"no","db_server":"mysql"} []

The behavior is expected when i set debug mode to true.

When i make an error_log in file “ninja/app/Libraries/CurlUtils.php” on the $response variable the response is a base64 string with debug mode = true (e.g. <head></head><body>data:application/pdf;base64,JVBERi0xLjMKJf////8KNyAwIG9iago8PAovVHlwZSAvRXh0R1N0YXRlCi9jYSAxCj4+CmVuZG9iago4IDAgb2JqCjw8Ci9UeXBlIC9FeHRHU3RhdGUKL0NBIDEKP j4KZW5kb2JqCjUgMCBvYmoKPDwKL1R5cGUgL1BhZ2UKL1BhcmVudCAxIDAgUgovTWVkaWFCb3ggWzAgMCA1OTUuMjggODQxLjg5XQovQ29udGVudHMgMyAwIFIKL1Jlc291cmNlcyA0IDAgUgo+Pg) and normal source code with debug set to false (e.g.` PHP message: <head>


<meta charset=“utf-8”>

        &lt;title&gt;Invoice Ninja | Kostenlose Online Open-Source Rechnungsausstellung&lt;/title&gt;
    &lt;meta name="description" content="InvoiceNinja ist eine kostenlose, quelloffene Lösung

chöne Rechnungen erstellen und verschicken, von jedem Gerät mit Internetzugang. Deine Kunden k
en.">
<link href=“https://raspberrypi/ninja/public/favicon-v2.png” rel=“shortcut icon” type=

    &lt;meta property="og:site_name" content="Invoice Ninja"&gt;
    &lt;meta property="og:url" content="https://raspberrypi/ninja/public"&gt;
    &lt;meta property="og:title" content="Invoice Ninja"&gt;
    &lt;meta property="og:image" content="https://raspberrypi/ninja/public/images/round_logo.`).

Does anyone has an idea?