Re: Access Denied! But why?

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 13596
interpreted = N
texte = I haven't visited your site, but I can say that often they perplexing security problems occur if WebSTAR AND WebCatalog are protecting the same page. That is, there is a Realm for admin, and there is a protect tag on the page you are accessing with admin in the URL.>Last month I set up my very first online secure store for a small CD >publishing company using WebCatalog: >https://secure.ims1.com/coolstore/Search.tmpl$search?geSKUdata=0&db=catalog.txt >& >categorysumm=t&categorysort=t&max=50 > >It worked and I was pleased. But the company wanted to review it >extensively before starting to use it. In the porcess of editing the >content of the pages/ .tmpl files they encountered a problem: > >>I can get to the Cool School Secure Admin page with the password you >>gave us. When I click the Edit the Main Page link, I can get there and >>edit the page, but when I try to save the changes I get a popup dialog >>that says Authorization failed. Retry?. When I retry it asks for my >>username and password again and re-entering these still doesn't let me >>save. Any ideas? > >I thought perhaps that I did not add that user name and password to a group >that was permitted to edit pages, but I had. I was able to edit the page in >question. At that point I surmised that he had simply mis-typed his >password or username. However when I went to the page to view the changes >(the URL is above), I got the following error message: > >Sorry, you have been denied access to this server based on your Domain name >or IP address. > >This is not a protected realm in Webstar. The message seems to come from >WebCat, but I didn't even know you could use WebCat to restrict access by >domain name or IP address. And I certainly did not restrict myself out! Can >anyone please tell me how I can get back in and how I can keep this from >dynamically restricting me in the future. > >Thanks, Paul > > > > _/_/_/Paul Uttermohlen, Internet Marketspace, Inc. > _/_/_/ mailto:paul@ims1.com _/ Website Development > _/_/_/ Websites for Business _/ > _/_/_/ Websites for Real Estate _/ >_/_/_/Websites for Children _/ > John A. Hill Pacific Coast Software 11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct. #453 * Web tools for Macintosh and WinNT * San Diego, CA 92128 http://www.smithmicro.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Access Denied! But why? (Marty Schmid 1997)
  2. Re: Access Denied! But why? (Paul Uttermohlen 1997)
  3. Re: Access Denied! But why? (John Hill 1997)
  4. Re: Access Denied! But why? (Paul Uttermohlen 1997)
  5. Re: Access Denied! But why? (John Hill 1997)
  6. Access Denied! But why? (Paul Uttermohlen 1997)
I haven't visited your site, but I can say that often they perplexing security problems occur if WebSTAR AND WebCatalog are protecting the same page. That is, there is a Realm for admin, and there is a protect tag on the page you are accessing with admin in the URL.>Last month I set up my very first online secure store for a small CD >publishing company using WebCatalog: >https://secure.ims1.com/coolstore/Search.tmpl$search?geSKUdata=0&db=catalog.txt >& >categorysumm=t&categorysort=t&max=50 > >It worked and I was pleased. But the company wanted to review it >extensively before starting to use it. In the porcess of editing the >content of the pages/ .tmpl files they encountered a problem: > >>I can get to the Cool School Secure Admin page with the password you >>gave us. When I click the Edit the Main Page link, I can get there and >>edit the page, but when I try to save the changes I get a popup dialog >>that says Authorization failed. Retry?. When I retry it asks for my >>username and password again and re-entering these still doesn't let me >>save. Any ideas? > >I thought perhaps that I did not add that user name and password to a group >that was permitted to edit pages, but I had. I was able to edit the page in >question. At that point I surmised that he had simply mis-typed his >password or username. However when I went to the page to view the changes >(the URL is above), I got the following error message: > >Sorry, you have been denied access to this server based on your Domain name >or IP address. > >This is not a protected realm in Webstar. The message seems to come from >WebCat, but I didn't even know you could use WebCat to restrict access by >domain name or IP address. And I certainly did not restrict myself out! Can >anyone please tell me how I can get back in and how I can keep this from >dynamically restricting me in the future. > >Thanks, Paul > > > > _/_/_/Paul Uttermohlen, Internet Marketspace, Inc. > _/_/_/ mailto:paul@ims1.com _/ Website Development > _/_/_/ Websites for Business _/ > _/_/_/ Websites for Real Estate _/ >_/_/_/Websites for Children _/ > John A. Hill Pacific Coast Software 11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct. #453 * Web tools for Macintosh and WinNT * San Diego, CA 92128 http://www.smithmicro.com John Hill

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