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author | Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net> | 2009-04-04 17:27:48 -0400 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net> | 2009-04-04 17:27:48 -0400 |
commit | 8e92468eae9ac0ab8161a0c71ff6c6a0a8aef07a (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/unicode_chars_in_wikiname_break_auth.mdwn b/doc/bugs/unicode_chars_in_wikiname_break_auth.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..472597c46 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/unicode_chars_in_wikiname_break_auth.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +I spent hours trying to understand why my wiki suddenly refused me to log in (using passwordauth). +The failure message was always: `login failed, perhaps you need to turn on cookies?` + +Inspecting the cookie information (thanks to Iceweasel's webdeveloper add-on), I realized there were some weird-looking encoded chars in the cookie name. + +Replacing "ยท" with "-" in `wikiname` fixed this login issue. + +> Hmm, Recai sent me a patch a long time ago to handle utf-8 here by encoding +> the wikiname. But it doesn't seem to work, somehow the encoded utf-8 +> value still doesn't make it through. (CGI::Session seems to have underermined utf-8 +> issues too.) Seems like I will have to possibly break some sessions and +> entity-encode the wikiname in the cookie.. [[done]]. --[[Joey]] + +>> I confirm it fixes the bug for me. --[[intrigeri]] + +(BTW, such a char was replaced by -I don't remember what encoding thingie- in my setup file, when running `ikiwiki-transition setupformat`.) + +> Thanks for the heads up, fixed that too. --[[Joey]] + +>> I confirm it fixes the bug for me. --[[intrigeri]] |