[RAS] log in problem

[Christian Zimmermann]

It turns out the complainant was using the wrong URL for some reason, but 
the one in my emails was correct. I did not notice they were different. 
Sorry for the trouble, I should have noticed.

Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063
Storrs, CT 06269-1063
http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Ivan Kurmanov wrote:

> I think Thomas is absolutely right. The URL you used it wrong.
>
> http://authors.repec.org/?login=christian.zimmermann@uconn.edu
>
> is correct. If I told you to use that a while back -- it was a mistake.
>
> -ivan
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Christian Zimmermann
> <christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu> wrote:
>> Well, this is what Ivan told me to use way back, and it worked at least
>> initially. So something changed in the meanwhile. But I will amend the email
>> templates and all will be fine.
>>
>> Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
>> Department of Economics
>> University of Connecticut
>> 341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063
>> Storrs, CT 06269-1063
>> http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu
>> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html
>>
>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>  Christian Zimmermann writes
>>>
>>>> addendum: after this "failed" attempt, if you click on "home", there is a
>>>> link stating that you are logged in, and indeed you are.
>>>
>>>  Yes, I was very surprised, and I have been able to reproduce the
>>>  bug. However, what you submit here is not a valid URL, I think.  To
>>>  be valid has to be local_part?param1=value1&param2=value2 etc Here,
>>>  your local part is "login", and then you submit a parameter name,
>>>  not a value for it. I suspect we could rewrite the URL with
>>>  mod_rewrite to make it acceptable, but I doubt this is good
>>>  practice.
>>>
>>> http://authors.repec.org/?login=christian.zimmermann@uconn.edu
>>>
>>>  should work as expected.
>>>
>>> http://authors.repec.org/?login=krichel@openlib.org
>>>
>>>  works for me.
>>>
>>>
>>>  Cheers,
>>>
>>>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>>>                               RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
>>>                                              skype: thomaskrichel
>>>
>>
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