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author | intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> | 2008-10-20 14:33:19 +0200 |
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committer | intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> | 2008-10-20 14:33:19 +0200 |
commit | fadb26bc1507f7fc2caaa873ad32c12f75c378aa (patch) | |
tree | 7ee389c28208e236cc4da4c3c51dbe9eae9234f0 /doc/bugs/unicode_chars_in_wikiname_break_auth.mdwn | |
parent | 654adc105e008b57aa5b9700d7aece2a0f7b0682 (diff) | |
parent | 4a958e0c1e1d3f49c665c5d4aa89214ecbd61bdd (diff) |
Merge commit 'origin/master' into prv/po
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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..5d5e90f7a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/unicode_chars_in_wikiname_break_auth.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +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]] + +(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]] |