[cgiapp] Need help with Redirect

[Stewart Heckenberg]

Try CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication :)

2008/12/27 Stephen Carville <stephen.carville at gmail.com>:
> I am writing a "make my life easier by letting users do some things
> for themselves" program but I cannot get a redirect to work after
> login.
>
> Not all functions require a login so those that do issue a redirect to
> bring up a login page.  For example if the user selects View Person
> Information the URL looks like:
>
> https://server/selfhelp/?rm=vpi
>
> If there is no logged in session it redirects to:
>
> https://server/selfhelp/&rm=auth&orm=vpi
>
> So far, so good...
>
> After entering a user name and password the form posts to:
>
> https://server/selfhelp/
>
> with parms:
>
> user = username
> pass = password
> rm = authcheck
> orm = vpi
> button = (Cancel or Login)
>
> If the user Cancels, the program sucessfully redirects back to beginning:
>
> https://server/selfhelp/
>
> Otherwise, after some sanity checks, authcheck authenticates against
> the Kerberos KDC using Authen::Krb5::Simple.  It then sets
>
> $self->session->param('logged-in',1);
> $self->session->expire('logged-in',"+10m");
>
> and attempts to redirct to the orginally requested page:
>
> https://server/selfhelp/?rm=vpi
>
> For some reason the redirect does not happen.
>
> As near as I can tell from /server-status and the logs the process is
> finishing correctly.  If I back up a couple of times within the time
> out period and try the request again, it shows me the Personal
> Information page.
>
> If I look at the cgisess_ file before the second request:
>
> $D = {'_SESSION_ID' => 'd6ee9a9550e40dbff06fca6e64639c16','logged-in'
> => 1,'_SESSION_ATIME' => 1230325867,'_SESSION_EXPIRE_LIST' =>
> {'logged-in' => 600},'_SESSION_REMOTE_ADDR' =>
> '10.212.202.63','username' => 'ttest','_SESSION_CTIME' =>
> 1230325823};;$D
>
> So I think it safe to assume that $self->session-flush() in teardown()
> is being called sucessfully.
>
> Any idea what i am doing wrong?
>
> I am using CGI::Application with perl, v5.8.8 built for
> i386-linux-thread-multi and:
>
> HTML::Template
> CGI::Application::Plugin::Session
> CGI::Application::Plugin::Redirect
> Authen:;Krb5::Simple
>
> --
> Stephen Carville
>
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