Re: google.com/ig postlogin with wwwoffle

Michael Vorburger-Rajagopalan <[email protected]> writes:

> Has anybody managed/does anybody know how to access google.com/ig (the "Google
> Portal", needs authentication through Cookies and redirects; other Google SSO
> pages probably similiar) with wwwoffle?

...

> that helped some, but now I have Firefox saying "The page isn't redirecting
> properly.  Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for
> this address in a way that will never complete. * This problem can sometimes be
> caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies." - what do they mean by this??

Do you have WWWOFFLE configured to pass through cookies?  They will be
allowed by default if you have not added any entries for them in the
CensorHeader section of the configuration file.

I think that what is happening is that you go to the first page and do
not send a cookie.  The server redirects the browser to a second page
that sends a cookie to the browser and redirects back the first page.
When you go back to the first page with a cookie then you are allowed
in.  The second page will be the one that does the authentication in
this case although on some servers it justs sets a cookie for anybody.

If WWWOFFLE has cached the first page then it is likely that you are
seeing the cached version and not the version that you should be
seeing.  This is why the browser sees you redirected between two pages
and gives an error.

There is a new option in version 2.9 called cookies-force-refresh in
the OnlineOptions section of the configuration file.  If you set this
to true then any page requests that contain a cookie will be treated
as forced refreshes.  This means that the second request for the first
page will be fetched from the server and the cached page will not be
used.

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Andrew.
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