On 10/11/05, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, that doesn't tell us very much. The "viewauth" URL
>> you are requesting is *supposed* to request authentication.
>
> When you get the default page, it includes:
>
> @import url("%USERLAYOUTURL%");
> @import url("%USERSTYLEURL%");
Well, now *that* looks broken. And I see what you mean. Request
the default page and view the HTML source. Look at the top, where the
style sheets are imported. You will see something like this (edited
for brevity):
----- Cut -----
/* Default TWiki layout */
@import url("http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/layout.css";);
/* Default TWiki style */
@import url("http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/style.css";);
/* Custom overriding layout per web or per topic */
@import url("%USERLAYOUTURL%");
/* Custom overriding style per web or per topic */
@import url("%USERSTYLEURL%");
----- Cut -----
The "@import" business is normal CSS syntax. It's just like an
#include directive in C, for example. It just tells the browser to
pull another URL in as a style sheet. Style sheets are cumulative, so
having multiple imports is fine.
What I think is broken are those last two imports. Those look like
TWiki variable names. Normally, an author can put a %VARIABLE% in
some TWiki text, and TWiki will substitute the value of said variable
when it generates the HTML for that TWiki text (i.e., when the page is
requested by the reader). You should never see those in actual HTML,
since TWiki should have done the substitution by then.
%USERLAYOUTURL% certainly isn't a valid URL, any which way you slice it!
I suspect that different UAs (browsers) are handling the bogus URLs
differently. Perhaps Mozilla is just ignoring them, while whatever
you are using ends up requesting it from the server, which in turn
gets confused and ends up sending you to an authentication page.
I'll look into it more when I can, hopefully tonight.
-- Ben "Would you believe I'm not the webmaster?" Scott
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