[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 18164] New: Realm Authentication broken for subdirectories

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18164

           Summary: Realm Authentication broken for subdirectories
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 526+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: Macintosh
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.5
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: New Bugs
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: rberg at mac.com


THIS IS A PROBLEM FOR 525 and 526 builds under 10.5 only; the problem does not
manifest itself under 10.4

I use lasso (currently sold by lassosoft) to interface a Filemaker database to
an Apache webserver. I use realm authentication and pass parameters along with
web pages to ensure that users have logged in correctly. This has worked, until
now, with every browser and every OS that my users utilize.

But Safari 3.1 and the latest nightly build breaks under OSX 10.5 (but not OSX
10.4). The issue comes up in the following context. Users log into a page at
intranet.myspace.com/enter.lasso where they are asked to go through realm
authentication. I pass lasso parameters from page to page to check that they
have logged in correctly or they get bounced back to the enter.lasso page to
re-login.

Under 3.1/10.5 the realm authentication works for other pages in the same
directory (in my case the root directory). So if the user is send (by hitting a
link) to a page at http://intranet.myspace.com/hello.lasso or
http://intranet.myspace.com/search.lasso, everything works okay. If it they are
sent to a different directory on the same server (say
http://intranet.myspace.com/newdirectory/hello.lasso), then the realm
authentication breaks (in lasso the parameters of a user name, for example,
come back as blanks). My pages trap this and ask them to re-login. 

I have hundreds of pages and I am not interested in rewriting my solution to
only use the root directory because of this bug. Thankfully other browsers okay
and all browser work okay in 10.4.

Only the combination of 3.1 and 10.5 is the culprit. This problem does not
manifest itself in Safari 3.1/10.4 or in Firefox for either 10.4 or 10.5 or in
Shiira for either 10.4 or 10.5.


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