From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: jsm28@cam.ac.uk, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: web/375: Re: GCC gnatsweb
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 11:26:08 +0200 (CEST)

 >>Number:         375
 >>Category:       web
 >  * The login page makes no mention of needing to have cookies
 >  enabled; but without cookies enabled it just redirects to another login
 >  page (under Netscape) or goes to a "Redirecting" page which does nothing
 >  (under lynx).
 
 GNATSweb is trying to be overly clever and thus miserably fails with the
 annoying failure mode you observed.
  
 There *are* checks whether your browser accepts cookies, but these are
 implemented using Javascript. Of course many (if not most) of those who
 cannot or do not want to use Cookies also cannot or do not want to use
 Javascript! <ouch>
 
 Fixed by the patch below which I already installed.
 
 Thanks for pointing this out!
 Gerald
 
 PS: I don't see how to address the other issues you pointed out in the
 PR right now. In the future, I suggest to submit separate reports for
 different issues (even if they can be summarized under one "meta-issue".)
 
 Index: gnatsweb.pl
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl,v
 retrieving revision 1.7
 retrieving revision 1.10
 diff -c -3 -p -r1.7 -r1.10
 *** gnatsweb.pl	2000/05/11 07:00:34	1.7
 --- gnatsweb.pl	2000/07/04 09:03:52	1.10
 *************** delCookie("gnatsweb-test-cookie");
 *** 2894,2901 ****
   if (val == null) {
       document.write("<h2>Warning: your browser is not accepting cookies</h2>"
           + "Gnatsweb requires cookies to keep track of your login and other "
 !         + "information.  Please enable cookies before pressing the "
 !         + "<tt>login</tt> button.");
   }
   
   //-->
 --- 2894,2900 ----
   if (val == null) {
       document.write("<h2>Warning: your browser is not accepting cookies</h2>"
           + "Gnatsweb requires cookies to keep track of your login and other "
 !         + "information.  Please enable cookies before logging in.");
   }
   
   //-->
 *************** sub login_page
 *** 2929,2935 ****
     # are not really needed; use the username as the default.
     my $def_password = $db_prefs{'password'} || $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'};
     print $q->start_form(),
 !         "<p>Use username '<b>guest</b>' and password '<b>guest</b>' for read-only and bug reporting access.",
           "<table>",
           "<tr><td>User Name:<td>",
           $q->textfield(-name=>'user',
 --- 2928,2938 ----
     # are not really needed; use the username as the default.
     my $def_password = $db_prefs{'password'} || $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'};
     print $q->start_form(),
 !         "<p>Use username '<b>guest</b>' and password '<b>guest</b>' for".
 !         " read-only and bug reporting access.",
 !         " Unfortunately, GNATSweb requires cookies to keep track".
 !         " of your login and other information.  Please enable cookies".
 !         " before logging in.",
           "<table>",
           "<tr><td>User Name:<td>",
           $q->textfield(-name=>'user',
 

State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->suspended
State-Changed-Why: I fixed the first problem, but the other problems are basic
    GNATSweb problems and the others have not even responded to
    my first patch (which I sent twice), so I'm afraid there is
    nothing we can sensibly do about it. :-(
    
    Perhaps someone else could try to contact the GNATSweb folks as well?

From: gerald@gcc.gnu.org
To: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gerald@gcc.gnu.org, jsm28@cam.ac.uk,
  martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Cc:  
Subject: Re: web/375
Date: 11 Oct 2000 21:18:35 -0000

 Synopsis: GCC gnatsweb
 
 State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->suspended
 State-Changed-By: gerald
 State-Changed-When: Wed Oct 11 14:18:34 2000
 State-Changed-Why:
     I fixed the first problem, but the other problems are basic
     GNATSweb problems and the others have not even responded to
     my first patch (which I sent twice), so I'm afraid there is
     nothing we can sensibly do about it. :-(
     
     Perhaps someone else could try to contact the GNATSweb folks as well?
 
 http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=375&database=gcc

Responsible-Changed-From-To: gerald->unassigned
Responsible-Changed-Why: Not mine. I analysed it, but I'm not going to fix it.

Responsible-Changed-From-To: unassigned->gerald
Responsible-Changed-Why: Oops, I edited the wrong PR. Revert my previous change to "Reponsible".

From: gerald@gcc.gnu.org
To: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gerald@gcc.gnu.org, jsm28@cam.ac.uk,
  martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de, nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: web/375
Date: 27 Dec 2000 00:44:57 -0000

 Synopsis: GCC gnatsweb
 
 Responsible-Changed-From-To: gerald->unassigned
 Responsible-Changed-By: gerald
 Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Dec 26 16:44:57 2000
 Responsible-Changed-Why:
     Not mine. I analysed it, but I'm not going to fix it.
 
 http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=375&database=gcc

From: gerald@gcc.gnu.org
To: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gerald@gcc.gnu.org, jsm28@cam.ac.uk,
  martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de, nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: web/375
Date: 27 Dec 2000 00:48:48 -0000

 Synopsis: GCC gnatsweb
 
 Responsible-Changed-From-To: unassigned->gerald
 Responsible-Changed-By: gerald
 Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Dec 26 16:48:48 2000
 Responsible-Changed-Why:
     Oops, I edited the wrong PR. Revert my previous change to "Reponsible".
 
 http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=375&database=gcc

State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed
State-Changed-Why: I installed a patch last week that solves the "invalid cookie
    path" issue.
    
    The only problem remaining is the last one, which is now
    duplicated in web/1646, so I am closing this PR.

From: gerald@gcc.gnu.org
To: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gerald@gcc.gnu.org, jsm28@cam.ac.uk,
  martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Cc:  
Subject: Re: web/375
Date: 22 Jan 2001 10:28:42 -0000

 Synopsis: GCC gnatsweb
 
 State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed
 State-Changed-By: gerald
 State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 22 02:28:42 2001
 State-Changed-Why:
     I installed a patch last week that solves the "invalid cookie
     path" issue.
     
     The only problem remaining is the last one, which is now
     duplicated in web/1646, so I am closing this PR.
 
 http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=375&database=gcc