[Mailman-Developers] MM1.0b9 Bug! (was: Setup prob: abs/rel CGI url)

Thu, 04 Mar 1999 15:46:41 +0100

Hi Barry et al,

I found it - Mailman 1.0b9 has a bug in admin.py .

Line 121 ff:

        if not is_auth:
            defaulturi = 'mailman/admin%s/%s' % (mm_cfg.CGIEXT,
list_name)
            print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
            text = Utils.maketext(
                'admlogin.txt',
                {"listname": list_name,
                 "path"    : os.environ.get("REQUEST_URI", defaulturi),
                 "message" : message,
                 })
            print text
            return

defaulturi is *wrong*, it needs a slash in front.

How comes that nobody complained yet? This means that no
user has used the admin pages since he upgraded to 1.0b9 !?!

ciao - chris

Christian Tismer wrote:
> 
> Hi Mailman developers,
> 
> I've set up Mailman 1.0b9 for starship.skyport.net exactly
> as the INSTALL file said. It is working so far, with one exception:
> 
> When I try to use the admin page for my test list, I first get
> the password dialog, as usual.
> After entering the password, Mailman complains that the list
> "mailman" is nonexistent.
> Reason:
> The CGI of the password dialog contains a relative CGI URL:
> 
> <html> <head>
>   <title>test Administrative Authentication</title>
> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <FORM METHOD=POST
> ACTION="mailman/admin/test">
> 
> which causes the URL to pile up to
> http://starship.skyport.net/mailman/admin/mailman/admin/test
> 
> and leads to the message that a list "mailman" indeed
> does not exist. :-)
> 
> I think I have checked everything against the 1.0b7 installation
> on python.net and couldnot find any difference whcih mght cause
> this.
> The only real difference is that skyport.net still runs an early
> Python 1.5 version.
> 
> Please help, I cannot find the bug. Can it be due to Python 1.5 ?
> 
> cheers - chris
> 
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