Re: htDig and Vignette??

OK.   Here's the URL at the login page:

http://testintranetportal/portal/site/insideQAD/index.jsp?epi-content=LOGIN

Then, after logging in, here are a couple of URL's of content pages:

http://testintranetportal/portal/site/insideQAD/index.jsp?front_door=true&epi_menuItemID=17b4d03e0ebb0d03c0bc8ed22890307a&epi_menuID=557c013f162725a5c2046e478790307a&epi_baseMenuID=557c013f162725a5c2046e478790307a

and

http://testintranetportal/portal/site/insideQAD/index.jsp?front_door=true&epi_menuItemID=8853e4e036d9d40ecfd048922890307a&epi_menuID=b65bac56c452abf6aeda32202890307a&epi_baseMenuID=557c013f162725a5c2046e478790307a

Thanks again,

Bruce




Neal Richter <[email protected]> 
01/24/2005 12:59 PM

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Bruce DeYoung <[email protected]>
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Re: [htdig-dev] htDig and Vignette??






On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Bruce DeYoung wrote:

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

   Post it anyway so I can take a look at it's structure.  Post the login 
URL then the first URL you see after a sucessful login.

> 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.

   Open your cookies file in the browser and clear anything associated 
with 
this website, then relogin into the webiste and check the cookies.

> 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?

   I assume you are using HtDig 3.2B6

   Look at the  cookies_input_file & disable_cookies settings in HtDig. 
The disable_cookies is 'true' be default.

   My gut feeling is that it's setting a cookie.  You can take the 
contents of the cookie that the browser stores and load it in to the 
HtDig indexer via the cookies_input_file.

   It may also be that the software checks the 'user_agent' string 
supplied 
by the browser/indexer and may disallow access if you aren't running a 
certain version of browser.

   You can fake this buy setting the user_agent in HtDig to be the string 
supplied by IE.  Get it from your apache server weblogs.

   I've seen both of these problems and worked around them this way.

> 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.

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