World: r3wp

Never saw such error before.

the html error page says: Redirection Trapped

Means a 30x HTTP code was returned by the request.

needless to say i've created both app-init.r files for the sake of 
the experiment w a content of REBOL[] but im still getting the error

why is it giving me an error page? because of the debug option in 
the config file or because of the -vvvv?

'debug keyword is producing error pages.

ok, it's the debug

the funny thing is im trying to "debug" from the command line and 
i have to login to the app 1st but if the debug flag is on, im getting 
back and error page and multiple session cookies

Multiple?

Cookie	{RSPSID=YVCBKGUZKHKSJGXVCBSTYDIK; RSPSID=YARKPZJMKJUNWDZRFOLUKJTE}
login	"test"
pass	"letmein"
Session ID	"YARKPZJMKJUNWDZRFOLUKJTE"

Remember that you can add debug/off at any time to any page.

ok, i will try that, thx

I guess these 2 sessions ID are coming from 2 different webapps.

Have you tried to define a webapp inside another webapp?

no, i have 1 webapp only now, but let me try in an incognito window

Nested webapps are not supported, the resulting behaviour is undefined.

i was merging multiple webapps under the same vhost, so it mush have 
been some leftover stuff

any example how do u test pages behind a session?

im trying curl -D- -d 'login=test&pass=letmein' -c jar http://localhost:8080/app/login.rsp

but subsequent curl -D- -c jar http://localhost:8080/app/some.html 
still gives me 302 to login.rsp

only session variables are safe?  I must have missed that in the 
docs!

i'd be interested in looking into the sessions during runtime too.. 
can i do it on the cheyenne console by pressing escape?

any example how do u test pages behind a session?

 You shouldn't use AUTH keyword if you don't want the redirection 
 to a login page.

GrahamC: I think it should be explained in the new wiki pages.

Dockimbel: i want the authentication. im just asking how can i test 
it programmatically easily. any idea whats wrong w the curl command 
lines?

i'd be interested in looking into the sessions during runtime too.. 
can i do it on the cheyenne console by pressing escape?
You can access them in 3 different ways:


1) if run from sources, escape in the console, then enter: probe 
uniserve/services/httpd/mod-list/mod-rsp/sessions/queue. Type do-event 
when you want to resume Cheyenne.


2) run the %clients/rconsole.r from the source archive, you will 
have a remote console connected to your local Cheyenne process (try 
on prompt: netstat)


3) add this to the config file in globals section: persist [sessions]. 
When you want to look to the sessions, just stop Cheyenne process, 
a .rsp-sessions file is created holding the session objects.

onetom: sorry, I am not fluent in curl, I need to look for man pages 
for every options...Can't you use REBOL http client for testing?

sure, i can use. i was asking for an example as i how do u do it 
usually

i saw u r using rebol mostly, so i was expecting some rebol example

Does curl handle cookies automatically?

thats whats -c is for

it maintains cookies in a jar

Have you looked into the request/response logs from Cheyenne?

thats what im not sure how to handle w a little code in rebol, that's 
why i was asking u; thought u need have some examples in ur toolbox

yes, it's not sending the cookie as i would expect on the 2nd run

$ cat jar
# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
# This file was generated by libcurl! Edit at your own risk.


#HttpOnly_guan-huat     FALSE   /       FALSE   0       RSPSID  MTXVGMVOMYMVGDZKFURKPQKK

i will read up on curl, im just asking how would YOU do it from rebol

You should try to send a GET request first on the login.rsp page.

I'm using either REBOL HTTP client for testing or my own HTTP async 
client (using UniServe) that can handle cookies. But I never need 
to test my webapps programmatically (at least not so far).

okay, thx

When I need to debug an HTTP communication, I either look into Cheyenne 
reques/response logs or I use firebug.

Here how it goes with REBOL native HTTP client: http://piratepad.net/KkvkZ9AtME
 (see at bottom)

my bad. seems like i should use -b to read the cookies. -c just writes 
them...

You should stick with REBOL HTTP client, using this patch to add 
transparent cookie support: http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=my-http.r

i think i was using that once. it's just not default in rebol... 
:/ curl however is present on every machine i have access to...

so it's worth learning.

i was a wget user earlier, but since macs come w curl and i can easily 
apt-get install curl and even syllable comes w curl, i don't give 
a fuck anymore how an inefficient bloatware is curl, im still trying 
to use it and only it :)

my-http is nice though. i wish there would be a guide for all these 
protocol extensions.. there are a couple of half-baked versions of 
them... :/

curl -D- -d 'login=test&pass=letmein' -c jar http://localhost:8080/login.rsp
curl -D- -b jar -c jar http://localhost:8080/some.html
worked, btw

Curl is not on Windows, REBOL is.

http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

Protocol extensions: right, they could have been listed somewhere 
on REBOL web sites.

it's actually available for a lot more platforms than rebol nowadays