[pubcookie-users] Re: Wiki

[ASUW Tech]

Thanks. Every time I run into a problem with pubcookie, rarely, I am  
always amazed with the response time for getting help. You guys make  
my job easy.

~ Josh

> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 06:39:11 -0800 (PST)
> From: Nathan Dors <dors at cac.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: [pubcookie-users] Wiki
> To: Rob Gallagher <rob at redbrick.dcu.ie>
> Cc: pubcookie-users at u.washington.edu
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703090634250.9474 at red2.cac.washington.edu>
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> Nope, this one-line fix hasn't been released from cvs.
>
> I'll free up some time to post this as, hmm, 3.3.2d.
>
> -Nathan
>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Rob Gallagher wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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