From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-02T08:29:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't login to Rubyforge, just says "cookies must be enabled"

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 06:59:47AM +0900, Tom Copeland wrote:
> > > >I've only got Gecko based browsers on my machine (Firefox, Mozilla 
> > > >and
> > > >Epiphaby) and they all do the same thing. My Firefox 
> > 2.0.0.2 install
> > > >at work (on XP) however logs in fine.
> > > >
> > > >Farrel
> > > 
> > > I even tried links and it's not working.
> > 
> > That sounds like a firewall issue of some sort, though I'm 
> > not entirely sure how one would go about configuring a 
> > firewall to block any cookies. It may also, I suppose, be 
> > related to some kind of read/write permission issue.
> > 
> > I'm grasping at straws, really.  Your problem (that no 
> > browser, whether Gecko-based GUI or console-based TUI, will 
> > interact properly with the
> > site) is on the weird side of the line.
> 
> Yeah, it's weird indeed... and as Chad said, since it doesn't happen to
> you at work, it does seem like a client-side problem.  Not sure if it's
> browser or firewall, though.... odd.

Perhaps more to the point, it's clearly outside of the browser itself,
since links doesn't have any relation to Firefox or other Gecko-based
browsers.  That makes it a system configuration issue or a network
configuration issue.  Is there another computer at the same network
location you could use to test for the ability to log in?  Is there some
way you could try logging in from the same computer but outside of
whatever you're using for a network gateway?  Either of these two
tactics would help narrow down the problem somewhat, so that you should
be able to thereby determine whether it's a system or network issue.

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