Hi, Mark,
read below.
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 04:14:32PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 4/14/2013 10:13 AM, Anne Wainwright wrote:
I have tried that with partial success, but there is another odd unmentioned behaviour that I have/had to cope with.
When I click on a 0-9A-Z link I am dumped outside back at the login window. When I log in a second time I am presented with the list of members that I wanted in the first place, subsequent queries work first time. Similarly when I need to moderate a message.
If I understand correctly, this is what's happening in those cases. You have a /etc/hosts or whatever to direct the 'outside' host to the 'inside' host. You go to the admin or admindb page via an 'inside' URL (probably a bookmark) and log in. Once there, relative links work fine. You go to a link with an absolute URL. This points to the 'outside' host which as far as your browser is concerned is not the host that set the authentication cookie so it is not returned to the 'outside' host and you have to log in again. Once you have logged in once for each host, you are authenticated for the rest of the browser session.
The answer is if you have /etc/hosts or whatever routing the 'outside' host to the 'inside' host, never go to the 'inside' host (fix your bookmarks to point to the 'outside' host name).
I had attacked this by a circuitous route, putting the ip address in the bookmark because I did not have an entry in /etc/hosts. When I got to putting an entry in /etc/hosts I did not change the bookmark. So ...
Yes, that is totally correct. I am leaving it like that for the moment to ensure there are no issues, and I can modify my FAQ 4.88 to reflect this. Whatever else, for any one implementing a relay server it seems the best way rather than have them editing away at key coding files.
At the moment removing the 'absolute=1' entries does the job 100%.
If you do notice any issues related to this, please let me know.
I will return to this configuration in a short while and will report on any issues or lack thereof.
thanks for all the time taken
Anne
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