Re: how to make Netsurf forget its logged-in state

2016-05-13 Thread Jim Nagel
 [Please reply to the list rather than to me privately.]

Ashish Gupta  wrote on 13 May:
> Thanks for explaining the login process. It looks like you make use of
> Basic Auth for the login.

The PHP includes statements like this:
 if (!isset($_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"])

Does that confirm what you say about "Basic Auth"?  Is that something 
that resides on the server as a resource for customers like me?  (As 
you can see, my knowledge of PHP is minimal; this routine was written 
for me by somebody else.)


> I think you should be able to destroy the saved state if you login
> using another username and password.

> Could you try doing this ?
> Open this URL, http://username:passw...@yoursite.com in netsurf.

Did that, using a different valid username as part of the URL, as you 
suggest.  Got in without seeing a login box.

> Could you try a couple of cases ?
> One, a username password which is valid but different from the saved one.

> A different (invalid) username password combo.
> I am hoping the invalid combo forces the login window next time (or
> locks you out).

Did those tests too.  In all cases, I got in without seeing a login 
box.

Then downloaded the log file which the PHP generates on the server and 
checked it.  These login tests do NOT appear on the log.

-- 
Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk



Really odd one here!

2016-05-13 Thread Brian
I've got two newsletters here. One from PermaJet and another from Wisdom
Books, both through Pluto.

The PermaJet newsletter loads into NetSurf OK via the HTML file attachment.

But, surprise, surprise, the HTML file attachment in the Wisdom Books
newsletter belongs to the PermaJet newsletter and loads the PermaJet
newsletter into NetSurf.???

Never ever seen this one before. My feeling is that the fault must lie
with Pluto but could the fault lie elsewhere, perhaps? How could this
happen?

Any explanations to this one, please.