> 1) I'm pretty sure that youre right -- SecurePage doesn't handle POST
> properly.  It needs to encode the posted variables into hidden fields in the
> login form, but it doesn't.  Patches welcome.

Okay, that shouldn't be too hard. I'll whip something up.

> 2) If you use your browser's BACK button to go back to the login form, then
> re-post the user name and password, it will always fail to log you in.  This
> is by design.

Well, I'm not using BACK to go clear back to the login form, just to Page 1,
which I'd already logged into. Does your answer still apply here?

> Maybe step 2 above is unnecessary paranoia -- any thoughts?

"Unnecessary paranoia?" In computer security, there is no such thing.

Steve

> 
> - Geoff
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steve Freitas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:17 AM
>> To: Webware Discuss
>> Subject: [Webware-discuss] Re: Session glitches with actions under
>> SecurePage?
>> 
>> 
>> Just a quick followup. I noticed it did it again, this time when an
>> exception was thrown inside a try-catch block in Page 2.
>> 
>> If it matters, the exception was smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused.
>> 
>> So instead of logging in, I hit the Back button, which
>> brought me back to
>> Page 1. Then I hit Reload, and it demanded a login.
>> 
>> So, at the very least, something about exceptions is invalidating my
>> session, I believe. In fact, I remember increased frequency
>> of this behavior
>> when I was writing exception handling for code using the
>> MySQLdb module.
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
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