[Zope] 500 error from windows only!

Thomas B. Passin tpassin@mitretek.org
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:43:13 -0400


[Gregory Dudek]>
>   Synopsis: only windows users are getting a 500 error when they
> should get a login screen!
>
>   I'm running a zope site and using the (deprecated but easy)
> Generic User Folder for cookie mode login (although that product
> may not be the issue).
>
>   Many (all?) users from explorer on windows currently get a
> 500 Server Error when they get to a page that needs authentication.
>   Users from any "normal" OS like linux or MacOS (9 or X) using
> either netscape, explorer or mozilla get a nice normal login
> screen.
>
>   How is it possible the only windows users are getting the 500 error
> screen and might anybody have a hint re. how to fix this?  There is
> nothing interesting in the logs.
>

No solution, but the link worked without a 500 error using Netscape 4.73 and
Mozilla RC1.0 in Windows 2000 SP2.  However, IE6 failed with a 500 error
from the same machine, and so did a Win95 machine with IE5.5.  So it seems
to be something about IE.

Tom P