doc/bugs/unicode_chars_in_wikiname_break_auth.mdwn



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 "·" 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]]