SOLVED - Strange Tomcat Admin Tool behavior

[Doug Selph <do...@dougselph.com>]

I had checked for this case with an earlier error, but neglected to do 
so with the symptom reported below until today. Shame on me.

Found a reference in Google that seemed to point to an invalid session 
as the cause. Browser was the beta of Apple's Safari. I have seen a 
problem with using Safari to browse some sites that use cookies for 
session tracking (linuxtoday.com is one such case where I could not 
browse as anyone but an anonymous user), while others seem to do fine 
with Safari and cookies. At any rate, I subsequently tried both Camino 
(mozilla port on OS-X) and IE/Mac, and the administration tool worked 
as expected under both.

Doug

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 09:35 AM, Doug Selph wrote:

> I have installed Tomcat 4.1.18, configured a user with the 
> "administrator" role in tomcat-users.xml, and tried to use the 
> Administration Tool. When logging in to the admin tool, I get this 
> error:
>
> --------------------------
>
> HTTP Status 400 - Invalid direct reference to form login page
>
> type Status report
>
> message Invalid direct reference to form login page
>
> description The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect 
> (Invalid direct reference to form login page).
>
> Apache Tomcat/4.1.18
>
> --------------------------
>
> If I enter a *known* bad password, I get the expected invalid username 
> or password page rather than a server error page, so this only occurs 
> after authentication is successful, apparently. I get the same result 
> with Tomcat installed on both Mac OS-X 10.2.4 (JDK 1.3.1) and RedHat 
> Linux 8.0 (JDK 1.4.1). Is this a known problem with the Admin Tool? Or 
> am I missing some part of the setup for this tool?
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
>
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