I have just yesterday finally solved a huge problem that I was having with a Cake application that I upgraded from v. 1.0.0 to v 1.1.13. I doubt that anyone else will encounter the same problem as me, but thought that it was worth recording.
This app was the first I ever built with Cake and it needed some modifications, including more flexible security. So my task was to move from OthAuth to DAuth and ACL which I use in all my projects now. I thought that as the Cake version was old, it would be worth upgrading to the latest stable Cake as well. Well, nothing is ever easy. After three days of beating my head against why DAuth wouldn't match login credentials I discovered the following: In old releases of Cake the URL of favicon.ico set in the default layout is relative. This is fine with IE as it only seems to request it once for the site's root directory. FireFox however requests it for every directory (or at least multiple times for whatever reason). As a result beforeFilter() in appController was being run multiple times by all of the favicon.ico requests. This had the effect of changing the DAuth salt value stored in the user's session on the server, thus causing a credentials mismatch and ruining my week. Having worked out that there were multiple favicon.ico requests hitting the server, I read up in this group on favicon. I found a post that mentioned a relative v's absolute URL issue. So I went and checked my default.thtml layout and there it was. The URL was relative. I changed it to absolute, and the problem went away completely. So problem solved. As a result I have developed a great love of Cake's Logging features. It would have been a much harder task to identify this error without it. Regards, Langdon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
