[Zope] Problem to log out from CMF Site

Mico Siahaan mico@cbn.net.id
20 Feb 2003 13:16:40 -0500


On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 13:32, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Mico Siahaan wrote at 2003-2-19 04:31 -0500:
>  > ....
>  > Btw, here I the complete error message. Can you figure out something? I
>  > still have this problem when I tried to logged out from my CMF site. 
>  > 
>  > --
>  > Exception traceback
>  > ...
>  > Exception Value
>  > Invalid authentication token
>  > 
>  > Traceback (innermost last):
>  > 
>  >  Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 89, in publish
>  >  Module ZPublisher.BaseRequest, line 409, in traverse
>  >  Module AccessControl.User, line 627, in validate
>  >  Module AccessControl.User, line 567, in identifyBad Request: Invalid authentication token
> 
> The code there looks like:
> 
>         if auth and auth.lower().startswith('basic '):
>             try: name, password=tuple(decodestring(
>                                       auth.split(' ')[-1]).split(':', 1))
>             except:
>                 raise 'Bad Request', 'Invalid authentication token'
>             return name, password
> 
> Thus, the browser sends "basic" authentication information
> with an invalid format.
> Check your browser.
> 
> BTW, you will not be able to log out of the CMF when you
> use basic authentication as only the browser can reset
> the corresponding login info.
> 
> 
> Dieter

How can I check whether my browser sends an invalid format ir not?
I'm using Galeon 1.03 on Linux.

Can you give me more explanations about: 'basic authentication as only
the browser can reset login info'. What does this phrase mean? :)

Thanks.

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