[Mailman-Users] cookie error w/spaces in list names

[Peter Scholtz]

Hi all!

Here's my problem: apparently Mailman 2.1b2 allows spaces in list 
names.  Fine.  That's handy, but when I try to log in to the newly 
created admin page for such a list, I get this cookie error:

Bug in Mailman version 2.1b2

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

...

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 82, in run_main
     main()
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 82, in main
     cgidata.getvalue('adminpw', '')):
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 208, in 
WebAuthenticate
     print self.MakeCookie(ac, user)
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 224, in MakeCookie
     c[key] = binascii.hexlify(marshal.dumps((issued, mac)))
   File "/usr/src/build/87651-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.2/Cookie.py", 
line 585, in __setitem__
     self.__set(key, rval, cval)
   File "/usr/src/build/87651-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.2/Cookie.py", 
line 578, in __set
     M.set(key, real_value, coded_value)
   File "/usr/src/build/87651-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.2/Cookie.py", 
line 456, in set
     raise CookieError("Illegal key value: %s" % key)
CookieError: Illegal key value: chess club+admin

I can only assume this has to do with the space in the list name.  This 
isn't a huge problem, but if Mailman's going to allow spaces, it should 
handle them correctly.  At least, is there any way to prohibit the 
creation of lists with spaces built in to Mailman (e.g. it gives the 
user feedback and they can go back and fix this, or Mailman could 
automatically remove spaces or replace them with hyphens or underscores)?

Thanks!

--Peter

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Peter Scholtz
Augustana College
Box 1757
2001 S. Summit Ave.
Sioux Falls, SD 57197
(605) 274-4880 (summer)
pgscholt at ole.augie.edu
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