Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

Odhiambo Washington odhiambo at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 06:45:38 UTC 2008


On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Grant Peel <gpeel at thenetnow.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am not a fan of cross posting, but, I have to make a exception in this
> case as I can't seem to nail down whether its the software or OS causing me
> the problem.
>
> Software: Apache 2.2, Python 2.5, Mailmain 2.1.11
> OS: FreeBSD 6.2 Release #0
>
> Apache and Python were built from ports, Mailman was built from source.
>
> Problem: I can't stay logged into the Mailman web interface. Each time I
> submit a form, I am logged out. When I do log in, If I look on my local
> machine, I cant find a session cookie anywhere. It like is never set. And
> the Mailman documentation clearly states that none of the changes will be
> saved in that scenario.
>
> Question: are there any people out there who can point me in the right
> direction? I assume that Python should be setting a cookie, but thats just a
> guess ... could it be OS related?


Could you downgrade Mailman and see if the problem still persists?
I run the combination you have (except Mailman is 2.1.9 and FreeBSD is
6.3) and I haven't had an issue. Might be a bug introduced in Mailman
2.1.11

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