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 > 5KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---