[Catalyst] Redirects not working under Catalyst with Debian server in IE

[Giancarlo Corcuera]

J. Shirley wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Giancarlo Corcuera
> <giancarlo at capybara-software.com> wrote:
>   
>> J. Shirley wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Giancarlo Corcuera
>>> <giancarlo at capybara-software.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Sorry, if you referred to this...
>>>>
>>>> Here is my login method:
>>>>
>>>> sub login :Chained('lang') :PathPart('sign_in') :Args(0) :Form {
>>>>  my ($self, $c) = @_;
>>>>    my $url_language = $c->stash->{'language'};
>>>>  my $lang_id = $c->stash->{'language_id'};
>>>>    my $form_data = load_tags($c,'fe_login_form', $lang_id);
>>>>  $c->stash->{'page_title'} = $form_data->{'form_title'};
>>>>    my $form = $self->formbuilder->new(
>>>>      {
>>>>          'source' => $c->config->{'home'}.'/root/forms/login/login.fb',
>>>>          'title'  => $form_data->{'form_title'},
>>>>          'submit' => $form_data->{'sign_in'},
>>>>          'header' => 0
>>>>      } );
>>>>    $form->field(
>>>>      'name'  => 'username',
>>>>      'label' => $form_data->{'username'}
>>>>  );
>>>>    $form->field(
>>>>      'name'  => 'password',
>>>>      'label' => $form_data->{'password'}
>>>>  );
>>>>    $form->field(
>>>>      'name' => 'qr_submit',
>>>>      'type' => 'hidden'
>>>>  );
>>>>    if ( $form->submitted && $form->validate ) {
>>>>      my $qr_submit = $form->field('qr_submit') || 0;
>>>>            if ( $c->login( $form->field('username'),
>>>> $form->field('password') ) ) {
>>>>                    $c->session->{'user_id'}   = $c->user->user_id;
>>>>          $c->session->{'is_client'} = $c->user->is_client;
>>>>                    if ( $c->user->is_client eq 'Y' ) {
>>>>                            $c->session->{'user_cty'} =
>>>> $c->user->b_customer_id->
>>>>                  b_country_id->country_code;
>>>>
>>>> $c->forward('set_currency_format',[$c->session->{'user_cty'}]);
>>>>                            $url_language =
>>>> $c->user->b_customer_id->b_country_id
>>>>                  ->language_iso;
>>>>                        }
>>>>          else {
>>>>                            $c->session->{'user_cty'} = 'US';
>>>>              $c->forward('set_currency_format', ['US']);
>>>>                        };
>>>>                    $c->forward('user_roles', [$c->user->user_id]);
>>>>          $c->forward('lang_session',[]);
>>>>                }
>>>>      else {
>>>>                    if ( $qr_submit == 1 ) {
>>>>                            $c->flash->{'login_username'} =
>>>> $form->field('username');
>>>>                            $c->flash->{'login_qr'} = 1;
>>>>              $c->flash->{'login_error'} = $form_data->{'error_message'};
>>>>                            $c->session->{'rq'} = undef;
>>>>             _*
>>>>  $c->res->redirect($c->uri_for("/$url_language/quotes/edit"));
>>>>              $c->detach();*_
>>>>                        };
>>>>                    $c->flash->{'error'} = $form_data->{'error_message'};
>>>>         _*
>>>>  $c->res->redirect($c->uri_for("/$url_language/sign_in"));
>>>>          $c->detach();*_
>>>>                };
>>>>            if ( $qr_submit == 1 ) {
>>>>                    $c->session->{'rq'} = undef;
>>>> _*
>>>>  $c->res->redirect($c->uri_for("/$url_language/quotes/edit"));
>>>>          $c->detach();*_
>>>>                };
>>>>            if ( $c->user->is_client eq 'N' ) {
>>>>         _*            $c->res->redirect($c->uri_for('/administrator'));
>>>>          $c->detach();*_
>>>>                }
>>>>      else {
>>>>                    $c->session->{'rq'} = undef;
>>>> _*                     $c->res->redirect($c->uri_for("/$url_language"));
>>>>          $c->detach();*_
>>>>                };
>>>>        };
>>>>    $c->stash->{'path'}     = $c->request->{'path'};
>>>>  $c->stash->{'template'} = 'login.tt2';
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> after some operations and/or validations (which are working perfectly)
>>>> none
>>>> of the redirects works in IE but it does on Firefox.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Giancarlo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> J. Shirley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Giancarlo Corcuera
>>>>> <giancarlo at capybara-software.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I made an application that works fine in the Debian server with
>>>>>> catalyst.
>>>>>> The problem comes when I use any redirect inside a controller module.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For example:
>>>>>> When I sign in the application redirects me to the appropiate page
>>>>>> according
>>>>>> to the user type but in IE it doesn't redirect and showed an error page
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> states "IE can't show the desired page". So after I press back and
>>>>>> ctrl+F5 I
>>>>>> can see that the session is already created so the user is now logged
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> system.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any advice will be appreciated,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Giancarlo Corcuera
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> Please paste in the controller code that is relevant.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> -Jay
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>> (Thank you for bottom posting after this :))
>>>
>>> In the Catalyst output debug messages, it should say "Redirecting to
>>> [URL]" when the redirect happens.  Make sure that the URL is specified
>>> in that message.
>>>
>>> The redirect code itself looks legitimate, but I'm not sure if the 302
>>> status code (which is the default on $c->res->redirect) is what you
>>> want.  Try setting it to 303 (See
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes for more
>>> details) and try again.  The syntax for this is simply doing:
>>> $c->res->redirect( $uri, 303 );  By default Catalyst uses 302.
>>>
>>> The other thing to try is to verify that the Response headers are
>>> being sent out the way that you expect them to.  Try installing
>>> Wireshark (http://www.wireshark.org/) and inspect the HTTP headers
>>> between requests in Firefox and IE; compare any differences.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> -J
>>>
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>>>       
>> One more thing that I find unusual:
>> Ubuntu server with catalyst: I don't have that problem in any browser (I've
>> triedd on firefox, IE, chrome, safari and opera)
>> Debian server with catalyst: everyone failed but Firefox.
>>
>> So maybe could be some stuff in my server but I'm not sure, that's why I'm
>> asking for any advice or known issue in this topic.
>>
>> Thanks for your quick responses,
>>
>> Giancarlo
>>
>>     
>
> Ah, ok, in that case I'm guessing you are running a rather old version
> of Catalyst::Runtime -- try upgrading Catalyst from CPAN:
> $ cpan Catalyst::Runtime
>
> That will update, and should fix your issue.
>
> -J
>
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>   
Thanx again for your response, it seems that the problem is now solved 
adding the -k parameter when running the catalyst and now it makes the 
redirects work fine.

Regards,

Giancarlo