[14591] in Athena Bugs
new problem with lynx HTTP basic authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Sat Aug 24 22:58:06 1996
From: mhpower@MIT.EDU
To: bugs@MIT.EDU, cwis-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 22:57:57 EDT
Starting yesterday, when I use a Sun running release 8.0I and type
add infoagents; lynx
and then attempt to access password-protected documents on
www.nytimes.com, I get messages of the form
Alert!: Access without authorization denied -- retrying
Enter username for The New York Times on the Web at www.nytimes.com:
Password:
WWW: Authorization failed. Retry? (y/n)
The same type of error (i.e., "Authorization failed") occurs on
www.chron.com also. Also, the same error occurs if I do the retry.
Authorization succeeds if I enter the same username and password
but instead use the commands
/bin/sh
LYNX_CFG=/mit/infoagents/share/lynx/v2.5fm/lynx.cfg
export LYNX_CFG
exec /mit/infoagents/arch/@sys/libexec/lynx-2.5fm
I haven't tried to debug why basic authentication seems to fail with
the new version /mit/infoagents/arch/@sys/libexec/lynx-2.5fm.960822.
On a related note, http://web.mit.edu/olh/Internet/ says that
As of Monday, August 28th, the infoagents Athena locker contains WWW
browsers supported and recommended by Information Systems. Supported WWW
browsers include Lynx, Mosaic, and Netscape.
...
If you have any questions about the new infoagents locker, please send them
to cwis-dev@mit.edu.
I'd suggest changing this to either omit the mention of the date
"Monday, August 28th", or else include the year 1995. Also, it'd be
useful if this documentation were more clear about whether general bug
reports ought to be sent to bugs or cwis-dev.
Matt
