[EP-tech] Re: Unable to login after upgrading from 3.2.8 to 3.3.8

[Alex Birchall]

Hi Seb,

We do not have mod_deflate in our Apache/http conf.

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: eprints-tech-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Sebastien Francois
Sent: 20 April 2012 10:44
To: eprints-tech at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Unable to login after upgrading from 3.2.8 to 3.3.8

Hi Alex,

I'm getting an odd behaviour, perhaps because of a mis-configuration at the Apache level....

I run a few tests with cURL, and I noticed that when using the HTTP header 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' (note: this is sent by Firefox), your Apache server returns a 401 without content. Without that header, I get the content from EPrints as expected. I think this comes from Apache because the format of the 401 response doesn't look like EPrints'.

Check if you have mod_deflate (responsible for gzip/deflate) in your Apache/httpd conf, if so, disable it & try again.

Seb.



On 19/04/12 19:06, Alex Birchall wrote:
> Seb,
>
> Yes, we are using a "special login" which you set up for us some months ago when we found that off-campus users could log into Eprints.
>
> I tried:
>
> firefox http://10.11.161.159/cgi/local_login?
> firefox http://10.11.161.159/cgi/users/home?
> firefox http://10.11.161.159/cgi/users/login?
>
> All the above fail to return anything.
>
> Also, accessing http://10.11.161.159 with IE8 results in the top half of the home page being blackened out, as you will probably be able verify for yourself.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex

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