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author | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2018-01-05 11:40:18 -0400 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2018-01-05 11:59:35 -0400 |
commit | a79ab9ed186112056d7f60e41e8d0760c2cc13f5 (patch) | |
tree | cd0bb678038afd22e54b875dd19e13405a5719a5 /doc/bugs | |
parent | 71064e3af6638616659ed1319ec78f9692ba9fde (diff) | |
download | ikiwiki-a79ab9ed186112056d7f60e41e8d0760c2cc13f5.tar ikiwiki-a79ab9ed186112056d7f60e41e8d0760c2cc13f5.tar.gz |
add and use cgiurl_abs_samescheme
* emailauth: Fix cookie problem when user is on https and the cgiurl
uses http, by making the emailed login link use https.
* passwordauth: Use https for emailed password reset link when user
is on https.
Not entirely happy with this approach, but I don't currently see a
better one.
I have not verified that the passwordauth change fixes any problem,
other than the user getting a http link when they were using https.
The emailauth problem is verified fixed by this commit.
This commit was sponsored by Michael Magin.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/bugs')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/login_problem.mdwn | 26 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/login_problem.mdwn b/doc/bugs/login_problem.mdwn index 0946a238f..14e3fb325 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/login_problem.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/login_problem.mdwn @@ -18,10 +18,21 @@ firefox-esr, or chromium. --[[Joey]] > Ok, to reproduce the problem: Log into joeyh.name using https. The email > login link is a http link. The session cookie was set https-only. > --[[Joey]] - +> +> The reason the edit form is able to be displayed is that emailauth +> sets up a session, in getsession(), and that $session is used for the +> remainder of that cgi call. But, a cookie for that session is not stored +> in the browser in this case. Ikiwiki *does* send a session cookie, but +> the browser seems to not let an existing https-only session cookie be +> replaced by a new session cookie that can be used with http. (If the +> emailed link, generated on https is opened in a different browser, this +> problem doesn't happen.) There may have been a browser behavior change +> here? +> > So what to do about this? Sites with the problem have `redirect_to_https: 0` -> and the cgiurl is http not https. So when emailauth generates the url, -> it's a http url, even if the user got to that point using https. +> and the cgiurl is http not https. So when emailauth generates the url +> with `cgiurl_abs`, it's a http url, even if the user got to that point +> using https. > > I suppose that emailauth could look at `$ENV{HTTPS}` same as > printheader() does, to detect this case, and rewrite the cgiurl as a @@ -31,3 +42,12 @@ firefox-esr, or chromium. --[[Joey]] > > Of course, the easy workaround, increasingly a good idea anyway, is to > enable `redirect_to_https`.. --[[Joey]] + +> One of the users also reported a problem with password reset, and +> indeed, passwordauth is another caller of `cgiurl_abs`. (The only other +> caller, notifyemail, is probably fine.) The emailed password reset link +> also should be https if the user was using https. So, let's add a +> `cgiurl_abs_samescheme` that both can use. --[[Joey]] + +[[fixed|done]].. At least I hope that was the thing actually preventing most +of the people from logging in. --[[Joey]] |