[Mailman-Users] [ alexandria-Support Requests-497696 ] mailman authentication broken

[Marc MERLIN]

I seemed to remember that the  cookie problem with mailman and konqueror was
only for  recent versions of mailman  2.0 and didn't affect  2.0.5 (which is
what lists.sourceforge.net  still runs  due to  the 8 or  so patches  I have
against it, and the fact that we didn't seem to need to upgrade to the newer
versions)

So: does the cookie/konqueror problem also affect 2.0.5 or is this a
separate problem?

Thanks
Marc

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Subject: [ alexandria-Support Requests-497696 ] mailman authentication broken
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 11:18:39 -0800

Support Requests item #497696, was opened at 2001-12-29 13:41
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Category: Mailing Lists
Group: Second Level Support
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tavis Rudd (tavis_rudd)
Assigned to: Marc Merlin (marcmerlin)
Summary: mailman authentication broken

Initial Comment:
Mailman's authentication mechanism on the 
administrative pages is broken for all of the 6 lists 
that I manage.  Nothing has changed on the client 
side since it worked last. After successfully 
entering the admin interface with my password I get 
an error message saying "Error decoding authorization 
cookie" when trying to view the next authenticated 
page.

I cleared the cookie cache and tried again, but the 
problem continued.

This is with Konqueror/KDE 2.2 on Linux.



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>Comment By: Tavis Rudd (tavis_rudd)
Date: 2002-01-01 11:18

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The same thing happens when I try Konqueror 2.2 on another 
machine.


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Comment By: Marc Merlin (marcmerlin)
Date: 2002-01-01 00:36

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Mmmh, we have many konqueror users and you are the first one
to complain.
I seem to remember that more recent mailmans had a bug with
cookies and konqueror, but the one on SF.net shouldn't have
the bug.

To rule out weird things, do you mind trying from another
machine with konqueror?

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Comment By: Tavis Rudd (tavis_rudd)
Date: 2001-12-30 12:00

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It just worked with IE, but as Konqueror hasn't had any 
cookie problems with other applications I think this a bug 
in Mailman's cookie parsing rather than a bug in Konqueror.


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Comment By: Marc Merlin (marcmerlin)
Date: 2001-12-30 11:46

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Check whether this also happens if you use another browser.

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