Re: Gnatsweb.pl login failure with Opera

[Yngve Svendsen]

It's been a while since I last dug around in this part of gnatsweb.pl, 
but you have certainly spotted a really headache-inducing area. I am 
pretty certain you could add an infinite number of browser-specific 
redirects here, but I am a bit surprised that Opera would fail to work 
with the methods already used.

The authentication system should probably be reworked and I am hoping to 
get a bit of work done this autumn. I have several changes pending that 
need to be applied in order to support some of the new features 
committed to GNATS after the 4.0 release. I have had quite a few 
interesting patches submitted to me over the last year, so it is 
probably time to start searching my inboxes and start doing some real 
work again, especially now that GNATS development seems to have accelerated.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer




Stuart Stevens wrote:

> Using Opera, the initial login returns to the login screen.  A refresh 
> will then go to the "main" GNATs screen.  "logout" has the same 
> problem.  IE does not have this problem.  The login reply is a refresh 
> with a new cookie.  The refresh is expected to make the same URL 
> request with the new cookie.  I am guessing that Opera does not behave 
> the same as IE in this respect.  Perhaps Opera is not passing the new 
> cookie until the manual refresh.
>
> Have others seen this problem?
>
> Should gnatsweb.pl be changed to return the cookie with the "main" 
> page instead of causing the browser to initiate a refresh?
>
> Does this make any sense?
>
> Stuart
>
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