username and password not accepted for webmail application

[aaronyyz]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Ubuntu 8.04

Tried to login to university webmail https://my.uq.edu.au/ and when correct username and password was entered the following error message was displayed: "You have not entered any text" (see attached screenshot). Feature was working on earlier Ubuntu distribution and only stopped working after upgrading to Hardy Heron.

Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 5 09:30:34 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Andre' Franciosi (andre-franciosi)]

Hi aaronyyz,

Can you test this with Firefox 3.0b5 in a Windows machine? See if same error appears.

Thank you,
afr

[will (willprobert)]

I've got an almost identical problem. Same version of firefox and ubuntu, and same website.

I've tried using firefox 3.0b on windows and I don't encounter this problem. There is no 3.05b version available for dl on the mozilla website, that I could find.

Any help would be appreciated to resolve this under Ubuntu.
Cheers,
W

[dlouzan (diegolouzan)]

I've had a similar problem developing a web application for my company. When trying to log in with a typical user - password form, I've noticed that the password input is not sending correctly codified characters, so the validation will fail (the same application works perfectly with FF2, IE6 and IE7). This only affected the password input, not the clear text one for the login. I've tracked the http communication and I've noticed that firefox 3.0b5 is sending incorrectly codified characters in the POST request.

For instance, using login='tést' and password='tést' (both using non-ascii characters), firefox3.0b5 under Ubuntu 8.04 will send through POST the parameters login='tést' and password='test' (stripping the accented non-ascii characters). This seems a problem when typing, as if I copy&paste 'tést' into the password input instead of manually typing it, everything works.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:27:48AM -0000, dlouzan wrote:
> I've had a similar problem developing a web application for my company.
> When trying to log in with a typical user - password form, I've noticed
> that the password input is not sending correctly codified characters, so
> the validation will fail (the same application works perfectly with FF2,
> IE6 and IE7). This only affected the password input, not the clear text
> one for the login. I've tracked the http communication and I've noticed
> that firefox 3.0b5 is sending incorrectly codified characters in the
> POST request.
>
> For instance, using login='tést' and password='tést' (both using non-
> ascii characters), firefox3.0b5 under Ubuntu 8.04 will send through POST
> the parameters login='tést' and password='test' (stripping the accented
> non-ascii characters). This seems a problem when typing, as if I
> copy&paste 'tést' into the password input instead of manually typing it,
> everything works.
>

is that fixed in RC1 now?

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[dlouzan (diegolouzan)]

Yes, I have just downloaded RC1 (didn't even know it was already included in Ubuntu 8.04 repositories) and now works perfectly :-)

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:00:25AM -0000, dlouzan wrote:
> Yes, I have just downloaded RC1 (didn't even know it was already
> included in Ubuntu 8.04 repositories) and now works perfectly :-)
>

thanks

 status fixreleased

 - Alexander