Forum OpenACS Q&A: OpenACS register redirect problem

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Posted by Paul Huibers on
I have created some upgrade scripts to bring my ACS 4.2 production data up to OpenACS 4.6 standards.  This has worked until recently, when I started to get a strange redirect problem while starting the web site.

It seems that my request to the index page, "/", gets redirected to the register page, with the appropriate return_url url variables added.  This register page then gets redirected back again to the register page, adding some more redirect url variables.  This loop continues until the browser fails.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Here is an example of a few of the growing requests in the AOLserver log:

141.150.205.155 - - [04/Mar/2003:10:10:34 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 350 "" "Mozilla/5.0\
(Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01" -

141.150.205.155 - - [04/Mar/2003:10:10:34 -0500] "GET /register/?return_url=%2f HTTP/1.1"\
302 384 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.0\
1" -

141.150.205.155 - - [04/Mar/2003:10:10:34 -0500] "GET /register/?return_url=%2fregister%2\
f%3freturn%5furl%3d%252f HTTP/1.1" 302 428 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:\
1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01" -

141.150.205.155 - - [04/Mar/2003:10:10:35 -0500] "GET /register/?return_url=%2fregister%2\
f%3freturn%5furl%3d%252fregister%252f%253freturn%255furl%253d%25252f HTTP/1.1" 302 482 ""\
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01" -

141.150.205.155 - - [04/Mar/2003:10:10:35 -0500] "GET /register/?return_url=%2fregister%2\
f%3freturn%5furl%3d%252fregister%252f%253freturn%255furl%253d%25252fregister%25252f%25253\
freturn%25255furl%25253d%2525252f HTTP/1.1" 302 546 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; e\
n-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01" -

141.150.205.155 - - [04/Mar/2003:10:10:35 -0500] "GET /register/?return_url=%2fregister%2\
f%3freturn%5furl%3d%252fregister%252f%253freturn%255furl%253d%25252fregister%25252f%25253\
freturn%25255furl%25253d%2525252fregister%2525252f%2525253freturn%2525255furl%2525253d%25\
2525252f HTTP/1.1" 302 620 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/200\
21120 Netscape/7.01" -

141.150.205.155 - - [04/Mar/2003:10:10:35 -0500] "GET /register/?return_url=%2fregister%2\
f%3freturn%5furl%3d%252fregister%252f%253freturn%255furl%253d%25252fregister%25252f%25253\
freturn%25255furl%25253d%2525252fregister%2525252f%2525253freturn%2525255furl%2525253d%25\
2525252fregister%252525252f%252525253freturn%252525255furl%252525253d%25252525252f HTTP/1\
.1" 302 704 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/\
7.01" -

141.150.205.155 - - [04/Mar/2003:10:10:36 -0500] "GET /register/?return_url=%2fregister%2\
f%3freturn%5furl%3d%252fregister%252f%253freturn%255furl%253d%25252fregister%25252f%25253\
freturn%25255furl%25253d%2525252fregister%2525252f%2525253freturn%2525255furl%2525253d%25\
2525252fregister%252525252f%252525253freturn%252525255furl%252525253d%25252525252fregiste\
r%25252525252f%25252525253freturn%25252525255furl%25252525253d%2525252525252f

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Posted by Don Baccus on
Sounds like a permissions issue, I'd trace this through the request processor to debug it.

I've upgraded one major site from ACS 4.2 to OpenACS 4.5 in the past, but never to 4.6.  But ... little's changed in this area so I'm surprised you're having a problem.