Problem indexing secure section

[joseph.gresham]

Hi

I Currently have a problem trying to index the secure section of a site. The login for the secure section is handled by a script which redirects to the requested page once the user has been authenticated.

Although I think Webinator is login in successfully it is failing to index the secure section because of the following error 'No Location header given in redirect from http://pilot2.equipmentdirect.org.uk/se ... direct.htm'

Is there anything I can do to solve this problem.

[John]

Does the redirection happen for every page, even if the user is authenticated? It sounds as if the Location to redirect to is not being sent for some reason. You might try reducing Max Requests to 1 to see if the issue is related to Keep-Alive.

The other possibility, are you stripping queries, so there is nothing to redirect to?

[joseph.gresham]

Thanks for the reply. I won’t be able to gain access to the server until tomorrow, but I’m quite sure that we are stripping queries. Also once the user is in the secure area the redirection does happen for each page. I’ll give both suggestions a try and let you know the outcome.

[joseph.gresham]

Hi

Tried both of the above but I am still unable to index the secure section of the site. Strangely I am not now receiving any errors or warnings as to why it might be failing.

[mark]

Try setting max redirects to -1 to see if that helps illuminate the problem. Turn your verbosity up to 4 as well to aid in finding the problem.