Question

When I click on the link

http://zillion.philosophy.arizona.edu/twiki/bin/register?action=verify;code=TestMore.3617248055

to activate a registration in Konqueror I get

http://zillion.philosophy.arizona.edu/twiki/bin/oops/Main/WebHome?template=oopsattention;def=bad_ver_code;param1=TestMore.3617248055;param2=.

, though the registration goes through fine. Everything works as expected if I use Firefox.

Some users have reported a similar phenomenon, but using unknown browsers.

I have had other issues with Konqueror: Firefox doesn't care whether it gets

>

or

>

, but Konqueror does. This is discussed at LatexModePluginDev 12 March. I mention that in case it is relevant.

Environment

-- ShaughanLavine - 28 Aug 2006

Answer

Looks a bit odd? Could be an issue with the "." in the URL - but the dot is normally considered "safe" (not needing to be url-encoded), so it is not obvious.

If you replace the . with %2E in the URL, what do you get?

-- SteffenPoulsen - 28 Aug 2006

Good suggestion, but I'm swamped with other work right now, and so I don't have time to try it. I'll get back to you in a couple of days.

-- ShaughanLavine - 28 Aug 2006

Nope. That isn't it. I get the same response as before.

-- ShaughanLavine - 01 Sep 2006

A bad_ver_code is thrown when you try to activate a registration but the listed registration code doesn't exist in RegistrationApprovals. This is either because it was never there, or because it has already been approved. I think the latter is more likely in this case. It sounds like Konqueror is submitting the verification twice. This first time correctly sets up the registration, but the second time is a repeat of the first, so fails.

Can you reproduce this, then check in access_log to see if the same GET (or POST) is repeated twice?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 03 Sep 2006

This is not a konqueror error but a kmail error. It requests the same url twice when clicking on it. Just discarded my own bug at Bugs:Item2854 after I found out that copy-pasting the registration code into an already open konqueror window does work out find (only one request) but opening up a new konqueror by clicking on an url in a message in kmail does two requests ... which confuses the registration approval like CDot already explained above.

-- MichaelDaum - 11 Sep 2006

This kmail bug has been reported two years ago already: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87361 and here again: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126995

-- MichaelDaum - 11 Sep 2006

That's it. Thanks!

-- ShaughanLavine - 12 Sep 2006

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