I haven't checked the cookie content, but as I said I did toss the cookies and clear the cache before retrying it. I even closed all the Firefox tabs that had any pages open from the server and did it again. On the Nth restart of the server after this, the problem cleared, so debugging will have to wait until it resurfaces. Since this was only a development/test/experimental instance, it wasn't crucial, and wouldn't have been until I started tearing my hair out over having to use IE. Thanks again. By the way, might there be anything identifiable in the cookie - fingerprints, or a smoking gun, or a deathbed confession - in case I see it again? Looks like that bit of javascript would make a handy bookmarklet... brain[sic] -----Original Message----- From: Ludovic Dubost [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Help with login confusion What do you have in javascript:alert(document.cookie) You might want to clean up your cookies and start over Ludovic THOMAS, BRIAN M (SBCSI) a écrit :

We are seeing a vexing problem with our 0.9.840 xwiki:

When logging in, if authentication succeeds, the user gets requested page, but $context.user is not set - no Hello brian at top, just "Log-in" and "Register" links. If it fails, normal behavior is seen, returning to login page.

We have tossed our cookies, cleared the browser cache, and called XWiki.flushCache() without effect.

Happens with Firefox but not IE. I don't even know where to start looking, since there doesn't seem to be any browser-specific code in the path...

brain[sic]

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