Thanks for the update. Do you know if that plug-in leaves it's
signature in either an HTTP header or in the user agent string? It
would be nice to know when troubleshooting in the future.

-Chuck

On 1/12/06, Hank Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Mystery solved.  I am using the "Faster Fox"  plug-in.  It does pre-fetching 
> of links on a page.  With the setting  at "Turbo" (most aggressive) this 
> authentication fails.  For me, it fails  at all settings above "Courteous".  
> (YMMV)  Dialing back the  aggressiveness of the plug-in resolved this issue.  
> Thanks again for all  the help.
>
> --Hank
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> Okay, now I know what is going on, but I don't know why, or what to do    
> about it...  Everything in the authentication works perfectly save for    one 
> thing.  It appears that the call for loginid =    
> session.value('loginid',None) at the beginning of the authentication block    
> returns a different value than does request.field('lgoinid', 'nologin').     
> As a result, the second phrase of the "if ..." statement that verifies    the 
> login fails.  This only happens with Firefox 1.5 from my    desktop.  All my 
> other browsers return the same value in both    calls.  Does this suggest 
> some possible cause in the browser?
>
> Regardless, thanks for all your help.  Clearly, Webware    is not at fault 
> here, and I will pursue the browser issues with the Mozilla    folks for some 
> explanation.  If I find out anything probitive I will post    it back to this 
> thread for future reference.
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> --Hank
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>  > Is there a way to get Webware to log or disclose      mor information on 
> the
> > authentication dialog from the application      server side?  I'd like to
> > find out if the password is      actually getting there, and what the data 
> > is
> > when it      does.
>
> The easiest way is to add print statements, see
> http://www.w4py.org/WebKit/Docs/UsersGuide.html#debugging
> The      output will be visible in the logs. You may want to start the
> AppServer      script with the "-u" option to have unbuffered output.
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> The servlets      in question are in /Webware/WebKit/Admin
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> --      Christoph
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