On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:07:35AM +0200, Dirk Laurie wrote: > http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/private/tex-music/2004-January/002778.html > > When trying to access this item, the following happens: > 1. I am asked for my e-mail address and password. I type them in. > 2. The item asked for does not appear, instead, the screen for the URL > http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/private/tex-music/ > appears. > 3. I select January 2004, and since there is no facility for entering > the post number, I click the field marked "author". > 4. A beautiful index appears. I have no difficulty in finding the item > I need, and click it. > 5. I am asked for my e-mail address and password. I type them in.
You're right, I'm experiencing the same phenomenon with Lynx and Opera, *not* with Internet Explorer, though. But this seems to indicate the reason and the solution: 5. I am asked for my e-mail address and password (again). 6. I let the browser refresh the page -- and the requested item appears! Like you, I first assumed this to be a bug in the login cookie handling. But now it seems that this is just the result of the browsers' page caching: The first time the browser accesses the given URL to the article, the list server responds with the login page, and logging in does not immediately deliver the very article but the archive index (this seems to be a Mailman property -- it is apparently no good idea to refer to article URLs of private Mailman archives directly, but I didn't know this). When you visit the article URL the second time, the browser displays the cached page it first got via this URL -- which is the login page. Refreshing it makes the server now (when the login cookie is set) respond with the wanted article. Best regards, Rainer _______________________________________________ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
