Re: [Refdb-users] A cookie problem? (refdb 0.8.4a)

[<Xia...@gs...>]

I got the same problem before, and it seems that there's a small bug in 
access.js file. In the setall() function of access.js file, the value of 
variable expDays is 0. So the cookie expires immediately after it's set. I 
changed this value, and it works fine now.

Hope it helps.

Xiang






"Georg Rehm" <Geo...@ge...>

Sent by: ref...@li...
12-Jun-2002 13:12
Please respond to Geo...@ge...

 
 

        To:     refdb-users

        cc: 
        Subject:        [Refdb-users] A cookie problem? (refdb 0.8.4a)

Hi everybody,

I run the latest RefDB tarball (0.8.4a) on a Mandrake 8.1 box 
(MySQL 3.23.49, Apache 1.3.24), but I have a tiny problem with
the Web interface:

If I log in on the first HTML document with a valid user, a valid
password and a valid database (valid at least for refdbc in the shell),
the page tells me I'm logged in now (I know, pressing the Login-button
isn't necessary). If I switch pages to "Display current database", the 
answer is "nodb". /var/logs/refdbd.log contains nothing for this request.

If I try to issue a query by means of one of the HTML forms, I get an
"internal server error" and entries like the following in refdbd.log 
(I guess this is the same problem that Michael Ayers reported the other 
day):

4:pid=14113:Wed Jun 12 16:02:52 2002:Access denied for user: 
'no...@ho...' (Using password: YES)
7:pid=14113:Wed Jun 12 16:02:52 2002:command processing done, finish 
dialog now

If I log in on the first HTML page and issue a "Simple query" on this
page, the correct result is displayed and several corresponding SELECT 
statements are contained in refdbd.log. 

I assume the trouble is caused by a major problem with setting the cookies
containing the user/password/database information (I experience exactly 
the 
same behavior on both Netscape Navigator 6 and Internet Explorer 5, so I
doubt that it's browser-related). Navigator reports in its Preferences 
menu 
that the Apache on my RefDB server successfully put only one cookie in the 

browser's environment:

                 Information about the selected cookie

                 Name:                                           SID
                 Information:            [some hash code]
                 Host:                                           hostname
                 Path:                                           /
                 Server Secure:                  no
                 Expires:                                at end of session

If I understand the JavaScript code in "access.js" correctly, three
cookies (called "name", "passwd" and "database") should be present.

Does anyone know why this doesn't work in my setup? Do I need to add
something to my more or less plain vanilla configuration of Apache or
is this a bug in "access.js"?

Greetings and thanks in advance,
                 Georg
-- 
Geo...@un...                 http://Georg-Re.hm
                                          http://www.uni-giessen.de/fb09/ascl/
Research unit for Applied and Computational Linguistics, University of 
Giessen

_______________________________________________________________

Sponsored by:
ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/
_______________________________________________
Refdb-users mailing list
Ref...@li...
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/refdb-users