[Zope] Cookie/Authentication Problem

[Dieter Maurer]

Michael Havard wrote at 2003-9-26 19:42 +0000:
 > I'm having problems logging into a site and I'm not sure if it's a CMF 
 > problem, a ZOPE problem or a Plone problem. I installed Plone 1.05 and upon 
 > attempting to login it would tell me I had to have cookies enabled. I looked 
 > for help on their site but all the information said that the cookie problem 
 > was now fixed in both IE5/6. So I decided to try just a 2.7b ZOPE install 
 > and CMF 1.4. I log into the CMF site using the login page and it tells me 
 > I'm logged in but as soon as I go to any other page it tells me I have to 
 > login again. Should I go even further back to 2.6 and CMF 1.31 or is there 
 > some fix for this problem out there that I just haven't been able to find.

Such difficult problems are best analysed with a TCPLogger (a tool
that logs communication over TCP-IP).
It will tell you precisely, whether the servers sends the authentication
cookie (and how) and whether it gets it back from the browser.

One such tool is Shane's "tcpwatch".


Dieter