Re: Auth / Acl redirect issue CakePHP 1.3.4

2010-11-18 Thread Tonu Tusk
Hi there, I had very similar problems to this...

If you split visiting urls into 6 separate cases.

1) not logged in visiting a url by clicking on a link
2) not logged in visiting a url by directly inputting it in browser
3) logged in visiting a url by clicking on a link - access allowed
4) logged in visiting a url by direclty inputting it in a browser -
access allowed
5) logged in visiting a url by clicking on a link - but insufficient
Acl permissions for page
6) logged in visiting a url by directly inputting it in a browser -
insufficient Acl permissions for page

You get varied behaviours.

This all arises due to the tightly interwoven dependency between
Auth / Acl, but not having sufficient distinct redirect variables
configured to deal with the
2 separate cases of insufficient privilages (excuse the spelling) vs
not authenticated.

I had a long (heated) chat in IRC with someone regarding this and have
also submitted this as a bug (i.e what happens in some of these cases
is not documented / inconsistent)
and in the end, even though it is (in my eyes) a VITAL part of the
framework to make sure it is addressed, I, and many others have been
brushed off (requests / queries of this nature do crop up
frequently)

I did figure out a solution, and in doing so decided to try and neaten
up my code / refactor it into a separate Acl component but in doing
more research, decided that the Acl mechanism
was just too cumbersome for what I need at the moment anyway. I
checked out authsome, and that works fine for me (although there was
some of the plugin code in that that needed to
be updated to make it work with Routes and plugins)

I might get round to digging out my fixes if you're interested, but
they were a bit unsitely and involved (if memory serves me) code
placed in beforeFilter, some more AppController variables being set
and
also an override of the referer and the acl check function to be
implemented, so it wasn't a nice fix.

I'd much rather it got recognised as a proper core issue to be coded
by a main dev team member.



On Nov 17, 5:02 am, Amit Badkas amit.sanis...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 Auth component uses 'loginRedirect' (by default, /users/login or
 /admin/users/login) class property for redirecting non-logged in users to
 login page if you are on restricted page.

 Amit Badkas

 PHP Applications for E-Biz:http://www.sanisoft.com

 On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:56 AM, danielnolan danielano...@gmail.comwrote:

  I am not sure that is one hundred percent accurate, if I am logged in
  as an admin and i type a restricted URL in the address bar of the
  browser I get redirected to the main site home page. If i am not
  logged in and I type the same restricted URL in the address bar of the
  browser i get redirected to the admin/login page and I get a flash
  message saying that I am not authorized to access that location.

  So how does the app know to redirect me to the admin/login page when
  not logged in, but when logged in I get redirected to the main site
  home page?

  On Nov 16, 12:08 am, Amit Badkas amit.sanis...@gmail.com wrote:
   Hi,

   The redirection after ACL fails depends on HTTP_REFERER environment
   variable. If you access the restricted URL directly then referrer doesn't
   get set, that's why '/' (by default, home page) is being used.

   Amit Badkas

   PHP Applications for E-Biz:http://www.sanisoft.com

   On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM, danielnolan danielano...@gmail.com
  wrote:

I have an application setup with admin prefix route, Auth, and ACL.
everything seems to be working as expected, except when I am logged in
as an admin user and I try to access a ACL restriced action by typing
the url in the address bar of the browser. I get redirected to the
home page of the site (view/pages/home.ctp) instead of the admin
dashboard (users/admin_dashboard) i have created.

If I click on a link to the exact same action in the admin dashboard
that is restricted, I get redirected to the admin dashboard as
expected with an auth error message telling me I am not authorized to
access that location.

What am I missing?

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Re: Auth / Acl redirect issue CakePHP 1.3.4

2010-11-16 Thread danielnolan
I am not sure that is one hundred percent accurate, if I am logged in
as an admin and i type a restricted URL in the address bar of the
browser I get redirected to the main site home page. If i am not
logged in and I type the same restricted URL in the address bar of the
browser i get redirected to the admin/login page and I get a flash
message saying that I am not authorized to access that location.

So how does the app know to redirect me to the admin/login page when
not logged in, but when logged in I get redirected to the main site
home page?

On Nov 16, 12:08 am, Amit Badkas amit.sanis...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 The redirection after ACL fails depends on HTTP_REFERER environment
 variable. If you access the restricted URL directly then referrer doesn't
 get set, that's why '/' (by default, home page) is being used.

 Amit Badkas

 PHP Applications for E-Biz:http://www.sanisoft.com

 On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM, danielnolan danielano...@gmail.comwrote:

  I have an application setup with admin prefix route, Auth, and ACL.
  everything seems to be working as expected, except when I am logged in
  as an admin user and I try to access a ACL restriced action by typing
  the url in the address bar of the browser. I get redirected to the
  home page of the site (view/pages/home.ctp) instead of the admin
  dashboard (users/admin_dashboard) i have created.

  If I click on a link to the exact same action in the admin dashboard
  that is restricted, I get redirected to the admin dashboard as
  expected with an auth error message telling me I am not authorized to
  access that location.

  What am I missing?

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Re: Auth / Acl redirect issue CakePHP 1.3.4

2010-11-16 Thread Amit Badkas
Hi,

Auth component uses 'loginRedirect' (by default, /users/login or
/admin/users/login) class property for redirecting non-logged in users to
login page if you are on restricted page.

Amit Badkas

PHP Applications for E-Biz: http://www.sanisoft.com



On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:56 AM, danielnolan danielano...@gmail.comwrote:

 I am not sure that is one hundred percent accurate, if I am logged in
 as an admin and i type a restricted URL in the address bar of the
 browser I get redirected to the main site home page. If i am not
 logged in and I type the same restricted URL in the address bar of the
 browser i get redirected to the admin/login page and I get a flash
 message saying that I am not authorized to access that location.

 So how does the app know to redirect me to the admin/login page when
 not logged in, but when logged in I get redirected to the main site
 home page?

 On Nov 16, 12:08 am, Amit Badkas amit.sanis...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi,
 
  The redirection after ACL fails depends on HTTP_REFERER environment
  variable. If you access the restricted URL directly then referrer doesn't
  get set, that's why '/' (by default, home page) is being used.
 
  Amit Badkas
 
  PHP Applications for E-Biz:http://www.sanisoft.com
 
  On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM, danielnolan danielano...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
   I have an application setup with admin prefix route, Auth, and ACL.
   everything seems to be working as expected, except when I am logged in
   as an admin user and I try to access a ACL restriced action by typing
   the url in the address bar of the browser. I get redirected to the
   home page of the site (view/pages/home.ctp) instead of the admin
   dashboard (users/admin_dashboard) i have created.
 
   If I click on a link to the exact same action in the admin dashboard
   that is restricted, I get redirected to the admin dashboard as
   expected with an auth error message telling me I am not authorized to
   access that location.
 
   What am I missing?
 
   Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://cakeqs.organd help
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Re: Auth / Acl redirect issue CakePHP 1.3.4

2010-11-15 Thread Amit Badkas
Hi,

The redirection after ACL fails depends on HTTP_REFERER environment
variable. If you access the restricted URL directly then referrer doesn't
get set, that's why '/' (by default, home page) is being used.

Amit Badkas

PHP Applications for E-Biz: http://www.sanisoft.com



On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM, danielnolan danielano...@gmail.comwrote:

 I have an application setup with admin prefix route, Auth, and ACL.
 everything seems to be working as expected, except when I am logged in
 as an admin user and I try to access a ACL restriced action by typing
 the url in the address bar of the browser. I get redirected to the
 home page of the site (view/pages/home.ctp) instead of the admin
 dashboard (users/admin_dashboard) i have created.

 If I click on a link to the exact same action in the admin dashboard
 that is restricted, I get redirected to the admin dashboard as
 expected with an auth error message telling me I am not authorized to
 access that location.

 What am I missing?

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