[Seaside] Http auth problems

[Julian Fitzell]

Tim Rowledge wrote:
> Julian Fitzell <julian@beta4.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Tim,
>>
>>Avi's away at the moment and I'm about to head out for the day.  Any 
>>chance you could file a bug at http://bugs.beta4.com/ with as much 
>>detail as you can so we can make sure to take a look at it?
> 
> Doesn't look like it unfortunately - I can't seem to log in. I'm sure I
> had an account setup...

I just reset your password for you, you should get an email.

>>My only initial thought is that there's some kind of cacheing issue 
>>going or your browser not handling redirects quite right.  But I don't
>>know the innards of the Basic Auth stuff well.
> 
> I copied the code from IAAuthenticatedSession, nothing tricky added by
> me. Previously I had been using code copied from IAAuthPageSession -
> that caused no problems. I'll try reverting to see what happens. The
> problem is only on the one Acorn browser, but I have long experience
> with problems that look like being 'only on one uninteresting setup'
> turning out to be serious problems for everyone after investigation. It
> would be good to find out what is happening, just in case this is one of
> them.

Hmm... have you modified your session in some other way?  Is there a 
reason you can't just use or inherit IAAuthenticatedSession?

I agree that we should try to find the problem.  Unfortunately I don't 
have or know anything about Acorn so it's gonna be tough for me to help 
debugging :)  Perhaps you could try using a tool like ethereal to 
capture the HTTP traffic... then we'd know for sure what redirects were 
happening, etc.

Unfortunately I don't know that code well enough to solve it without 
flailing around for 24 hours or actually being able to debug... If you 
can't get an ethereal log then definitely file a bug and I'm sure Avi'll 
have some idea.

I have no problem helping you try to figure it out in the meantime, I 
just can't promise anything :)

>>As for IE, I have problems like that all the time. Eventually even 
>>shift-reload doesn't seem to work anymore and then if I'm lucky quitting 
>>*all* my IE windows and opening a new one works...
> 
> That one seems to have yielded to rebooting the powerbook a few times,
> implying some cretinous nonsense in os-x/ie is at fault. Surprise....


Julian

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