[pubcookie-users] Wiki

[Rob Gallagher]

Hi,

I hit this bug recently:

http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/pubcookie-users/2007-January/001613.html

This was solved with a simple patch to the mod_pubcookie code, which we applied
and this appeared to resolve the issue. I'm not sure if this has made it into recent
releases however.

rg

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:20:24AM -0800, ASUW Tech wrote:
> We recently installed a wiki on our server and I got the wiki package  
> working with Pubcookie fairly well (if you need help doing the same,  
> e-mail me). The only problem is with the ':' character which,  
> unfortunately, wiki's use extensively to specify namespaces. If  
> someone tries to go to any page that includes the ':' character, such  
> as https://wiki.asuw.org/wiki/Help:Contents , and they haven't logged  
> in already they will do the usual Pubcookie login. However, after  
> they get back to the wiki, successfully logged in, the ':' character  
> will be translated into an 'h' delivering them to https:// 
> wiki.asuw.org/wiki/HelphContents which doesn't exist.
> 
>  I haven't been able to find any other character that does this, I  
> tried a couple and failed, so it seems to be limited to the ':'  
> character. If this was only on a couple of pages it wouldn't be an  
> issue at all because I could just foward HelphContents to  
> Help:Contents, unfortunately this affects a growing number of pages  
> as we have a subset of employee access limited pages that all start  
> with 'Asuw:' so a very common practice is to browse the wiki, hit the  
> Asuw namespace where they are required to log in, click to log in,  
> where they are then are delivered to a 'page not found' error. Also  
> every user page is prefaced with User:.
> 
> It's merely an annoyance for me, but I can envision computer  
> illiterate people that will find this very frustrating. With the  
> growing popularity of wiki's I can see this becoming more of a  
> problem for many users.
> 
> Thank you for any help you can provide,
> ~ Josh
> 



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