[Mailman-Developers] mass subscribe bug

[Scott]

I saw this error once in another context (still with mailman and
cookies, but with the "private" cgi).

The error occurred when a recent version of IE on a mac attempted to
deal with the cookie.  I think that the bug has one of two causes:
either the browser is incorrectly handling the characters in the
cookie, or there is something about the way that the base64 module
encodes and decodes that won't work with http.  Since I've only seen
the error on what i consider a questionable browser i suspect that
it's the browser's fault.

in either case, i haven't the first clue about a fix.

scott


On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 08:15:49AM -0700, John Viega wrote:
| Here's the error previously mentioned, as reported to me, w/ excess
| headers, etc. trimmed.
| 
| John
| 
| ----- Forwarded message from Matt Chatterley <matt@mpc.dyn.ml.org> -----
| 
| Occurs when trying to mass subscribe.
| 
| Seems to have started after upgrading python, version information:
| 
| Python 1.5.1 (#1, May 29 1998, 12:50:41)  [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2
| 
|   We're sorry, we hit a bug!
|   
|    If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy
|    of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what
|    happened. Thanks!
| 
| Traceback (innermost last):
|   File "/home/mailman/scripts/admin", line 823, in ?
|     main()
|   File "/home/mailman/scripts/admin", line 157, in main
|     is_auth = isAuthenticated(lst)
|   File "/home/mailman/scripts/admin", line 103, in isAuthenticated
|     inp = base64.decodestring(c[list_name + "-admin"].value)
|   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/base64.py", line 46, in decodestring
|     decode(f, g)
|   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/base64.py", line 32, in decode
|     s = binascii.a2b_base64(line)
| Error: Incorrect padding
| 
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