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I spent hours trying to understand why my wiki suddenly refused me to log in (using passwordauth).
The failure message was always: `login failed, perhaps you need to turn on cookies?`

Inspecting the cookie information (thanks to Iceweasel's webdeveloper add-on), I realized there were some weird-looking encoded chars in the cookie name.

Replacing "·" with "-" in `wikiname` fixed this login issue.

> Hmm, Recai sent me a patch a long time ago to handle utf-8 here by encoding
> the wikiname. But it doesn't seem to work, somehow the encoded utf-8
> value still doesn't make it through. (CGI::Session seems to have underermined utf-8
> issues too.) Seems like I will have to possibly break some sessions and
> entity-encode the wikiname in the cookie.. [[done]]. --[[Joey]]

(BTW, such a char was replaced by -I don't remember what encoding thingie- in my setup file, when running `ikiwiki-transition setupformat`.)

> Thanks for the heads up, fixed that too. --[[Joey]]
initial bug report 2008-10-20 00:13:47 +02:00			`I spent hours trying to understand why my wiki suddenly refused me to log in (using passwordauth).`
			The failure message was always: `login failed, perhaps you need to turn on cookies?`

			`Inspecting the cookie information (thanks to Iceweasel's webdeveloper add-on), I realized there were some weird-looking encoded chars in the cookie name.`

			Replacing "·" with "-" in `wikiname` fixed this login issue.

Fix issue with utf-8 in wikiname breaking session cookies, by entity-encoding the wikiname in the session cookie. 2008-10-20 03:07:12 +02:00			`> Hmm, Recai sent me a patch a long time ago to handle utf-8 here by encoding`
			`> the wikiname. But it doesn't seem to work, somehow the encoded utf-8`
			`> value still doesn't make it through. (CGI::Session seems to have underermined utf-8`
			`> issues too.) Seems like I will have to possibly break some sessions and`
Use the pure perl Data::Dumper when generating setup files to ensure that utf-8 characters are written out as such, and not as the encoded perl strings the C Data::Dumper produces. Note that the text produced by the C version was interpreted fine when ikiwiki loaded the setup file. But it was not user-friendly. 2008-10-20 03:23:48 +02:00			`> entity-encode the wikiname in the cookie.. [[done]]. --[[Joey]]`
Fix issue with utf-8 in wikiname breaking session cookies, by entity-encoding the wikiname in the session cookie. 2008-10-20 03:07:12 +02:00
initial bug report 2008-10-20 00:13:47 +02:00			(BTW, such a char was replaced by -I don't remember what encoding thingie- in my setup file, when running `ikiwiki-transition setupformat`.)
Use the pure perl Data::Dumper when generating setup files to ensure that utf-8 characters are written out as such, and not as the encoded perl strings the C Data::Dumper produces. Note that the text produced by the C version was interpreted fine when ikiwiki loaded the setup file. But it was not user-friendly. 2008-10-20 03:23:48 +02:00
			`> Thanks for the heads up, fixed that too. --[[Joey]]`