[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Can't connect with client

[Bill Ott]

You had me at CHAP-style!

After realizing what I was reading in the logs, I started looking at 
packet traces and in the end found a problem with the Apache config, a 
quiet little 404.


Bill Erickson wrote:
>
> On 3/18/07, *Bill Ott* <bott at grpl.org <mailto:bott at grpl.org>> wrote:
>
>     Don McMorris wrote:
>     > How do the logs look? Any changes there?
>
>     Tons of data in the osrfsys.log, lots of new cstore debug messages on
>     startup, but no errors.  Here is the run of the osrfsys.log during a
>     client login attempt.  I only see INFO and DEBG messages, but
>     hopefully
>     there will be something telling in the mix.
>
>
> [snip]
>
> The login process is a two-part, CHAP-style authentication.  The first 
> step is to request a challenge key from the server.  The second step 
> is to send the challenge response to the server.
>
> The two methods that do this are "open-ils.auth.authenticate.init" and 
> "open-ils.auth.authenticate.complete".
>
> The chunk of logs provided shows a successful call to the the first 
> method, open-ils.auth.authenticate.init.
>
> Here is a small chunk that shows the server responding to the client 
> with the challenge key:
>
> osrfMessage--*/{"threadTrace":
> "1","type":"RESULT","payload":/*--S
> osrfResult--*/{"status":"OK","statusCode":"200","content":"083585426204e5cbca49f671a296c4c0"}/*--E 
>
> osrfResult--*/}/*--E osrfMessage--*/,/*--S
> osrfMessage--*/{"threadTrace":"1","type":"STATUS","payload":/*--S
> osrfConnectStatus--*/{"status":"Request
> Complete","statusCode":"205"}/*--E osrfConnectStatus--*/}/*--E
> osrfMessage--*/]
>
>
> After this, there should be an additional pile of logs detailing the 
> "open-ils.auth.authenticate.complete " method call.  That's where 
> things are failing.
>
> For the sake of clarity, you may wish to direct the chopchop logs to a 
> different file, since chopchop probably isn't the problem and it has 
> verbose logs.
>
>
> -bill
>
>
> -- 
> Bill Erickson
> PINES Systems Developer
> Georgia Public Library Service
> billserickson at gmail.com <mailto:billserickson at gmail.com>
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