On 08/28/10 05:49 AM, Jason Grout wrote:
On 8/27/10 8:03 AM, kcrisman wrote:
On Aug 27, 7:37 am, Jason Grout<jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
On 8/21/10 9:12 PM, kcrisman wrote:
I don't know that we've had as many people complaining about cookies
recently. Maybe this has been fixed.
Unfortunately, we just upgraded our campus server to 4.3 (the latest
VMWare image that we hadn't heard problems about) and apparently it is
hexed by the cookie issue (namely, that it wants you to delete Sage
cookies before it actually lets you log in).
I just had this problem on Safari, and the only way I fixed it was to go
to safari security preferences and change the cookie handling from
accepting cookies "only from sites I visited" to "always".
Weird, and it seems like a bug that should be tracked down.
+1
I'm glad someone else has seen this recently! It's definitely only in
Safari.
I've seen this problem, though not necessarily on the latest version using
Firefox. So the problem is not unique. I'm pretty sure I've seen it on
http://t2nb.math.washington.edu:8000/
since I updated that to Sage 4.5.1, but I can't be 100% sure on that.
One of my students had it in internet explorer today.
To my way of thinking, a developer familiar with the notebook should look first
determine why the login page is not producing valid HTML. The W3C validator
clearly shows this, and two of the three errors are directly on the fields about
username and password.
If the code sent to the browser is not valid HTML, the behavior of the browser
is undefined.
One might make changes to the cookie code which fixes this for some browsers or
even all browsers now, but it's anyones guess what will happen long-term if the
sections that requires one to log in are sending invalid data to the browser. Is
it any big surprise the cookies are not working correctly in this case?
I wonder if part of the problem had to do with them creating accounts
directly before trying to log in.
It's really anyone's guess. But clearly people should be able to create accounts
before or after they try to log in.
Jason
Dave
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