Found a reference in Google that seemed to point to an invalid session as the cause. Browser was the beta of Apple's Safari. I have seen a problem with using Safari to browse some sites that use cookies for session tracking (linuxtoday.com is one such case where I could not browse as anyone but an anonymous user), while others seem to do fine with Safari and cookies. At any rate, I subsequently tried both Camino (mozilla port on OS-X) and IE/Mac, and the administration tool worked as expected under both.
Doug
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 09:35 AM, Doug Selph wrote:
I have installed Tomcat 4.1.18, configured a user with the "administrator" role in tomcat-users.xml, and tried to use the Administration Tool. When logging in to the admin tool, I get this error:
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HTTP Status 400 - Invalid direct reference to form login page
type Status report
message Invalid direct reference to form login page
description The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect (Invalid direct reference to form login page).
Apache Tomcat/4.1.18
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If I enter a *known* bad password, I get the expected invalid username or password page rather than a server error page, so this only occurs after authentication is successful, apparently. I get the same result with Tomcat installed on both Mac OS-X 10.2.4 (JDK 1.3.1) and RedHat Linux 8.0 (JDK 1.4.1). Is this a known problem with the Admin Tool? Or am I missing some part of the setup for this tool?
Thanks, Doug
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