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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..c272d4b4f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/unicode_chars_in_wikiname_break_auth.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +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. + +(BTW, such a char was replaced by -I don't remember what encoding thingie- in my setup file, when running `ikiwiki-transition setupformat`.) |