[Mailman-Users] htdig authorization problem

[Hank van Cleef]

The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said:
> 
> Hank van Cleef wrote: 
> >
> >Running with Firefox, I cleared the cache and all cookies, then retested
> >as a user, going from the listinfo page.  This URL is:
> >http://www.mercedeslist.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes
> >
> >The archives page is:
> >http://www.mercedeslist.com/mailman/private/mercedes/
> 
> 
> Right, but when you get the archive index page with the search box,
> what is the POST URL for the search form, and when you get the results
> page, what are the URLs for the message links and what is the URL for
> the next page of results. It is these latter URLs that seem to lose
> the cookie data.
> 
Taken from the apache access_log.  Notes interspered:

192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:36:03 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 4807
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:36:03 -0700] "GET
/welcome_files/welcome.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 533
	(Entry point)
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:40:18 -0700] "GET
/mailman/listinfo/mercedes HTTP/1.1" 200 6097
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:40:32 -0700] "GET
/mailman/private/mercedes/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1493
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:40:57 -0700] "POST
/mailman/private/mercedes/ HTTP/1.1" 200 136912

	(Look at a pipermail archive)
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:41:31 -0700] "GET
/mailman/private/mercedes/Week-of-Mon-20061106/date.html HTTP/1.1" 200 46660
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:41:37 -0700] "GET
/mailman/private/mercedes/Week-of-Mon-20061106/164538.html HTTP/1.1" 200 2466
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:42:08 -0700] "POST

	(do a search that produces several pages of hits)
/mailman/mmsearch/mercedes H TTP/1.1" 200 5922
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:42:08 -0700] "GET /htdig//button5.gif
HTTP/1.1" 200 780
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:42:08 -0700] "GET /htdig//button4.gif
HTTP/1.1" 200 786
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:42:08 -0700] "GET /htdig//button6.gif
HTTP/1.1" 200 791

	(Try to look at one)
192.168.1.12 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:42:45 -0700] "GET
/mailman/htdig/mercedes/Week- of-Mon-20060227/145334.html HTTP/1.1" 200 1580
	(revalidate with password only)
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:43:37 -0700] "POST
/mailman/htdig/mercedes/Week -of-Mon-20060227/145334.html HTTP/1.1" 200 4335
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:43:39 -0700] "GET /mailman/htdig/mercedes/Week-
of-Mon-20060227/145335.html HTTP/1.1" 200 4018

	(Try to look at another)
192.168.1.12 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:44:12 -0700] "GET
/mailman/htdig/mercedes/Week- of-Mon-20030623/041974.html HTTP/1.1" 200 1580
        (revalidate with password only)
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:44:19 -0700] "POST
/mailman/htdig/mercedes/Week -of-Mon-20030623/041974.html HTTP/1.1" 200 4009
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:44:21 -0700] "GET
/mailman/htdig/mercedes/Week- of-Mon-20030623/041897.html HTTP/1.1" 200 2395

	(Try to view second page)
192.168.1.12 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:44:34 -0700] "GET
/mailman/mmsearch/mercedes?config=mercedes;method=and;format=short;sort=score;words=penoff;page=2
HTTP/1.1" 2 00 1336
192.168.1.12 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:45:17 -0700] "GET
/mailman/htdig/mercedes/Week- of-Mon-20040308/073188.html HTTP/1.1" 200 1580
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:45:23 -0700] "POST
/mailman/htdig/mercedes/Week -of-Mon-20040308/073188.html HTTP/1.1" 200 3364
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:45:25 -0700] "GET
/mailman/htdig/mercedes/Week- of-Mon-20040308/073191.html HTTP/1.1" 200 2593

	(Note: none of the above displayed.  Instead, I got the auth
	error page for htdig)

	(Now, go over to the options page for the account without having
	to revalidate)
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:45:53 -0700] "GET /icons/mm-icon.png
HTTP/1.1" 200 281
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:45:54 -0700] "POST
/mailman/options/mercedes HT TP/1.1" 200 14726
192.168.1.99 - - [19/Jan/2007:20:46:14 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico
HTTP/1.1" 404 28 3

The error log has entries for favicon.ico, which I don't have.  No other
errors.

Hank
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Hank van Cleef (vancleef at lostwells.net, hvanclee at nyx.net)
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