I've been building and supporting a web application for over three years that uses AuthCookieDBI for authentication. Today my SysAdmin showed me that on his Mac, he is unable to log in from Safari, version 2.0.3.

A good login looks like this: 

192.168.0.249 - - [16/May/2006:10:12:42 -0400] "GET /LOGIN?credential_
+0=user&credential_1=password&status=Sign+on&destination=%2Fcgi-bin%2F
+start.cgi HTTP/1.1" 302 296 "https://foo.com:16900/cgi-bin/start.cgi"
+ "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) 
+Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3" 159905

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and the bad login looks like this: 
192.168.0.249 - - [16/May/2006:10:35:18 -0400] "GET /LOGIN?-----------
+-0xKhTmLbOuNdArY%0D%0AContent-Disposition:%20form-data;%20name=%22cre
+dential_0%22%0D%0A%0D%0Asupport%0D%0A
------------0xKhTmLbOuNdArY%0D%0AContent-Disposition:%20form-data;%20n
+ame=%22credential_1%22%0D%0A%0D%0A247oldM1ll%0D%0A------------0xKhTmL
+bOuNdArY%0D%0AContent-Disposition:%20
form-data;%20name=%22status%22%0D%0A%0D%0ASign%20on%0D%0A------------0
+xKhTmLbOuNdArY%0D%0AContent-Disposition:%20form-data;%20name=%22desti
+nation%22%0D%0A%0D%0A/cgi-bin/start.c
gi%0D%0A------------0xKhTmLbOuNdArY--%0D%0A HTTP/1.1" 403 2214 "-" "Mo
+zilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/418 (KHTML,
+ like Gecko) Safari/417.9.3" 487907

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It almost looks like the data stream is getting encoded into the URL. Has anyone seen this problem before?

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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In reply to OT: Safari and AuthCookieDBI by talexb

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