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  2. JENKINS-3883

403 Forbidden with Meta Redirect

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    • Icon: Bug Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Icon: Major Major
    • core
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    • Platform: All, OS: Windows XP

      Internet Explorer 7 (and possibly other versions) swallows 403: Forbidden error
      pages less than 256 bytes when "Friendly Error Messages" are turned on. Hudson
      (in HudsonAuthenticationEntryPoint.java) uses a 403/Meta Refresh combination to
      redirect unauthenticated users to the login form. This results in an error page
      instead of a redirect.

      The problem is even more prevalent when fronting Hudson with Apache/mod_deflate,
      as IE considers the downloaded bytes when deciding to eat error pages, not the
      uncompressed bytes.

      Please add > 256 bytes of random garbage to the output from
      HudsonAuthenticationEntryPoint.java to prevent this problem from bothering poor
      Internet Explorer users.

          [JENKINS-3883] 403 Forbidden with Meta Redirect

          ssevertson created issue -
          sogabe made changes -
          Link New: This issue duplicates JENKINS-8352 [ JENKINS-8352 ]
          sogabe made changes -
          Resolution New: Fixed [ 1 ]
          Status Original: Open [ 1 ] New: Resolved [ 5 ]
          Jenkins IRC Bot made changes -
          Component/s New: core [ 15593 ]
          Component/s Original: gui [ 15492 ]
          R. Tyler Croy made changes -
          Workflow Original: JNJira [ 133956 ] New: JNJira + In-Review [ 186717 ]

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