Re: htDig and Vignette??

Thanks Neal for the reply.   Unfortunately, I cannot provide a link to the 
site since it is an intranet site only....at this time.

My suspicion about this is that Vignette security is handled differently 
than, say, standard Apache security.    Using the -u option with htdig and 
supplying an authenticated user for our Apache-based sites works fine. I'm 
not sure how Vignette authentication works, but I do know that when you 
attempt to access the site, if your login cookie is not set, it will 
rediret to a login page and request authentication information. 

I've asked our Vignette developer to request some assistance from Vignette 
support as well.

When you say "make sure cookie support is enabled", are you referring to 
something in Vignette or in htDig?

And, I understand what you're saying about using the rewrite rules...and I 
think you're right about that one.   So, once I'm able to dig the site, I 
will look at the URL references and create a url_rewrite rule to remove 
the session information.

Thanks.

Bruce


Bruce DeYoung
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QAD Inc.
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Neal Richter <[email protected]> 
01/22/2005 10:14 PM

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Re: [htdig-dev] htDig and Vignette??






On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Bruce DeYoung wrote:

> Hello htDig Developers!
>
> We have a development effort going on to manage and present content for
> our corporate intranet site via Vignette.  I have been asked to see if
> htDig can be used for searching this site.   We already use htDig for 
our
> external websites (standard content on Apache servers), so have some
> knowledge of how it works.   I've created a new config file for digging
> the vignette site and an account for searching has been created in
> Vignette's active directory.   However, htDig cannot seem to get past 
the
> LOGIN redirect.
>
> Has anyone used htDig with Vignette?   Anyone have any ideas about how 
to
> get Vignette to recognize the login/password and successfully get past 
the
> LOGIN redirect to the actual content?    (We are also looking into using
> the provided Autonomy license for keyword searching in Vignette....but
> this is a parallel effort.)

   Please post a link.. it's been a while since I looked at a site coupled 

with Vignette.  I think it will require two things:

#1) Make sure the cookie support is enabled

#2) Use the rewrite rules to strip Vignette sessionids off of the URLs, 
otherwise you'll be giving every user of search the same sessionid.

   For those of you who are not familiar with Vignette, they provide a 
software to serve up webpages with sessionids to enable tracking and 
reporting of site usage patterns.

   Thanks.

> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
>
>
> Bruce DeYoung
> Sr. Business Systems Architect
> Global Support Operations
>
> QAD Inc.
> Home Office
> Louisville CO  , USA
> www.qad.com
>
>
> [email protected]
> Tel:  720-890-4009
>
> This e-mail may contain QAD proprietary information and should be 
treated
> as confidential.
>

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