[Windmill-dev] Logging into web applications with windmill

Adam Christian adam at osafoundation.org
Thu Dec 27 01:19:28 PST 2007


After more investigation it appears, that this ONLY works in Safari,  
in Firefox 2&3, IE6/7, Opera and Konqueror the cookie doesn't get set  
and the login doesn't actually work.

Looks like something is going on in the server with the headers?

Adam

On Dec 27, 2007, at 12:55 AM, Adam Christian wrote:

> This appears to be a Firefox specific problem, that appears to be a  
> bug we ran into in the past when testing Jacobi's site having to do  
> with cookies. Unfortunately the solution we had before that involved  
> clicking around on various links before doing the login doesn't  
> appear to be working.
>
> Mikeal, it appears like we are in for a bit deeper debugging session  
> here.
>
> Adam
>
> On Dec 27, 2007, at 12:07 AM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
>
>> I just recorded logging in to this fine in Safari with windmill  
>> trunk.
>>
>> Adam will need to look in to this if it's firefox specific.
>>
>> Here is the JSON i recorded for logging in;
>> {"params": {"url": "http:\/\/solutiongrove.info\/xowiki\/"},  
>> "method": "open"}
>> {"params": {"name": "username"}, "method": "click"}
>> {"params": {"text": "coa", "name": "username"}, "method": "type"}
>> {"params": {"text": "123", "name": "password"}, "method": "type"}
>> {"params": {"name": "formbutton:ok"}, "method": "click"}
>>
>> -Mikeal
>>
>>
>> On Dec 27, 2007, at December 27, 200712:01 AM, Hamilton Chua wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Adam,
>>>
>>> I had another chance to try this out again but this time on one of  
>>> our
>>> web applications.
>>>
>>> I made doubly sure that we weren't using ssl in the login form but  
>>> I'm
>>> still getting the same problem and I'm unable to login when in  
>>> windmill.
>>>
>>> Our demo application is at http://www.solutiongrove.info and the
>>> username and password to use is coa/123
>>>
>>> I launch windmill by doing
>>>
>>> windmill firefox http://www.solutiongrove.info/
>>>
>>> I have windmill installed on a linux OpenSuse 10.3 desktop and on a
>>> laptop. Windmill on both machines have the same problem.
>>>
>>> Our web application is running OpenACS which uses AOLserver as the
>>> webserver. I am going to investigate further if there are config
>>> settings and parameters in either OpenACS or AOLserver that's  
>>> causing
>>> this but do please have a look as well.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Hamilton
>>>
>>>
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