You can replace the page blanking by adding some content longer than
512 chars
On Jun 13, 11:08 am, Alexey Nezhdanov <snak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 13 June 2009 16:58:33 mdipierro wrote:> I will take this patch!
>
> Here it is, attached. Tested with latest stable, then ported to trunk version
> and tested again.
> However there is one problem with it. On error code 401 browser actually
> _renders_ the page causing it to be blanked and redrawn as opposed to 303
> which just waits a bit, then instantly replaces page content.
> I do not know if there is a way to suppress that page blanking.
> Otherwise it seems to be working as intended.
>
>
>
> > On Jun 13, 6:19 am, Alexey Nezhdanov <snak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm writing unit tests for my app and come across this problem:
> > > if I try to access the page which has @auth.requires_login()
> > > I get error 303 - i.e. redirect to the page with login/password form.
> > > While this works visually for browsers, it is actually wrong for testing
> > > AND for search engines. Status codes are important for robots and here
> > > status is set incorrectly (should be 401).
> > > So why we not set this to 401 and make redirect with other means
> > > (javascript/meta tags)? We know that pages that are larger than certain
> > > size are displayed ok in IE so this should not be a problem.
> > > Here is sample page with redirect:
>
> > > """<html>
> > > <head>
> > > <meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" />
> > > <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=%(nexturl)s/" />
> > > <script type="text/javascript"><!--
> > > window.location='%(nexturl)s';
> > > // --></script>
> > > </head>
> > > <body />
> > > </html>
> > > """%{'nexturl':URL(r=request,c='auth',f='login')}
>
> > > If this is a good idea - I'll write a patch.
>
> > > --
> > > Sincerely yours
> > > Alexey Nezhdanov
>
> --
> Sincerely yours
> Alexey Nezhdanov
>
> noauth-401-403.diff
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