[Mailman-Users] Admin Requests Not Working

[Dennis Putnam]

On 2/5/2015 12:40 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 02/04/2015 05:25 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
>> Well, I thought the requests had disappeared but I was wrong. I'm not
>> sure why they seemed to be gone other than operator error. In any case I
>> searched through the logs and found nothing except this:
>>
>> 192.168.0.102 - - [02/Feb/2015:15:51:30 -0500] "POST
>> /mailman/admindb/mailman HTTP/1.1" 302 222 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT
>> 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0"
>>
>> Which is perfectly normal. I guess I need to turn on some kind of debug
>> to see what this thing is doing. Thanks.
>
> When you go to the admindb page for the list, look at the exact URL of
> the page in the address bar. Then depending on what you actually do,
> i.e. accept/reject/discard message(s) from the summary page or go to a
> detail link and accept/reject/discard message(s) from there, look at the
> exact URL of any other pages in the address bar and also look at the
> source of all the pages you visit for the URLs in action= elements in
> form tags and the URLs in links you visit.
>
> Do all these have the exact same host name (relative actions/links are
> the same host as that of the URL of the page and are OK) and scheme? You
> are looking for anything different, i.e. a different host or scheme
> (http vs. https).
>
> One common way this occurs is the form action on an https page is an
> http url which gets redirected by the web server to https. The redirect
> loses the POST data. This is covered in the FAQ at
> <http://wiki.list.org/x/4030602> but you may have missed it.
>
> If you need more than that, you'll have to add debug logging to
> Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py such as
>
> after
>
> def main():
>     global ssort                     <- you may not have this line
>     # Figure out which list is being requested
>     parts = Utils.GetPathPieces()
>
>
> add
>
>     for p in parts:
>         syslog('debug', 'Part from Utils.GetPathPieces(): %s', p)
>
> and after
>
>     # Make sure the user is authorized to see this page.
>     cgidata = cgi.FieldStorage(keep_blank_values=1)
>
>
> add
>
>     for k, v in cgidata.items():
>         syslog('debug', 'cgidata: %s: %s', k, v)
>
> This will write entries to a 'debug' log in Mailman's logs/ directory
> (or /var/log/mailman/debug in RHEL/CentOS) and you can then see if the
> script is actually getting the things it should be getting.
>
>
Hi Mark,

They all look consistent to me.

https://server/mailman/admindb/...

I will try your debug sometime this weekend. Thanks.

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