Hi MCF community,
I need some help with the configuration of a login sequence with the Web
connector. Here is the login sequence on a web browser :
GET site/
302 -> site/login
302 -> other-site/cas/login
401 other-site/cas/login
POST other-site/cas/login (set cookie)
302 -> site/login?param1=value (set cookie)
302 -> site/login?param1=value (set cookie)
302 -> site/
I tested the following conf :
Session: site
site\/login = redirect
other-site\/cas\/login = redirect
other-site\/cas\/login = form
username=john
password=***
This configuration works till the form POST, after the form POST, the first
cookie is correctly retrieved by the job but then it ends up in an infinite
loop. Here are the debug logs:
..
DEBUG 2020-05-29T15:07:25,560 (Worker thread '11') -
MCF|MCF-agent|apache.manifoldcf.connectors|WEB: For
https://other-site/cas/login, setting virtual host to other-site
DEBUG 2020-05-29T15:07:25,560 (Worker thread '11') -
MCF|MCF-agent|apache.manifoldcf.connectors|WEB: Got an HttpClient object
after 1 ms.
DEBUG 2020-05-29T15:07:25,560 (Worker thread '11') -
MCF|MCF-agent|apache.manifoldcf.connectors|WEB: Post method for '/cas/login'
...
DEBUG 2020-05-29T15:07:18,442 (Worker thread '11') -
MCF|MCF-agent|apache.manifoldcf.connectors|WEB: Retrieving cookies...
DEBUG 2020-05-29T15:07:18,442 (Worker thread '11') -
MCF|MCF-agent|apache.manifoldcf.connectors|WEB: Cookie '[version:
0]xxxxxxxxxx
INFO 2020-05-29T15:07:18,448 (Worker thread '11') -
MCF|MCF-agent|apache.manifoldcf.connectors|WEB: FETCH
LOGIN|https://other-site/cas/login|1590764838416+31|302|0|
DEBUG 2020-05-29T15:07:18,448 (Worker thread '11') -
MCF|MCF-agent|apache.manifoldcf.connectors|WEB: Document
'https://other-site/cas/login' did not match expected form, link,
redirection, or content for sequence 'site'
..
It seems that the redirection after the form POST is not considered by the
job but I don't know why. After that, there is an infinite loop where the
cookie is passed on the GET "site/login" which redirects to
"other-site/login", but this time, when "other-site/login" get the cookie in
the request, it does not send a 302 redirect response code but a 200 OK
I don't know why there is such behavior and I would be glad to have your
advises !
Thanks for your help
Julien
