Server Requires Login Multiple Times in a Row

MizSuz · 08-19-2018, 08:06 AM

I'm running Calibre 3.29 content server on a Windows 7 desktop computer. I recently went to login required accounts on the server. Several of my accounts are experiencing the server requiring logging in several times in a row before allowing access. And sometimes you can just hit "Cancel" and it'll let you in anyway even if you haven't entered anything.

I don't allow accounts to modify my server but otherwise the set up is out-of-the-box. No https required.

Is there something I've done wrong to make the server repeatedly require login?

kovidgoyal · 08-20-2018, 12:17 AM

IIRC this was a bug in some versions of the Chrome browser. Try using a different browser and you should be fine.

MizSuz · 08-20-2018, 05:56 AM

Welp, the issue seems to go away with the Samsung browser so I do believe you recall correctly. Thanks, Kovid!

MizSuz · 08-20-2018, 06:25 AM

Oops. Spoke too soon. Let me use it for a while and see if it continues to require multiple log in attempts with the Samsung browser, too. So far it did it only once.

kovidgoyal · 08-20-2018, 08:41 AM

Isn't the samsung browser simply a wrapper around chrome anyway?

MizSuz · 08-23-2018, 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Isn't the samsung browser simply a wrapper around chrome anyway?

Good question. I don't know. On my desktop I use Pale Moon, which is a pared down version of firefox that I like quite a lot, but it's not perfect. I get no login issues from the server using Pale Moon, but it won't really allow me to read in the browser. It crashes or won't open. But I know when you launched the server reader you said that it was compatible with a limited number of browsers so I expected that and worked around it.

But the truth is that I've been using the calibre server reader as my primary reading device on my mobiles (Chrome and Samsung) and it was fairly flawless, with the exception of having to over ride the browser's default sans-serif font with custom css, until I went to accounts. I figure it'll be something silly that I haven't set right, or a browser issue.

I may try the Lion browser and see how that goes.

MizSuz · 08-23-2018, 12:53 PM

Ok then. The Brave browser (which is probably what I meant when I said Lion because the icon is a lion - duh) threw the multiple sign-in error, as well as that Uncaught IndexSizeError I was getting on that one book, but the Firefox browser had no such issues at all.

So, repeat login issues using Pale Moon and Chrome on a desktop; and Samsung, Chrome, and Brave on an android mobile (Galaxy Note 8), but not on Firefox on the Android. I haven't tried firefox on the desktop. I can't remember the last time I updated it.

I also had Mac users (desktop) complain about multiple log ins using Safari, but I told them that wasn't one of the browsers you supported and to try a more mainstream one. I haven't heard back yet about that.

MizSuz · 08-23-2018, 12:58 PM

And I just updated Pale Moon (which was a large, full version update with big coding changes in it) and now Pale Moon is working flawlessly both in login and with the browser reader. This is the first time Pale Moon as been able to use the browser reader, so that's nice. It's also my preferred desktop browser so - win!

kovidgoyal · 08-23-2018, 10:59 PM

Hmm I'll have to look into how Chrome/Safari broke HTTP auth to see if I can work around the multiple login issue.

MizSuz · 08-27-2018, 11:31 PM

FYI - I turned off accounts today and I am no longer throwing errors in those books (in ANY browser) and, of course, the log-in stuff isn't at issue.

I'm going to cross post about the book errors stopping on the other post I made about the errors so that it's in the right place. But I'm thinking it's the accounts being turned on that hosed me up.

08-19-2018, 08:06 AM	#1
MizSuz Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Sony Touch, Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Aura, Android w/CoolReader	Server Requires Login Multiple Times in a Row I'm running Calibre 3.29 content server on a Windows 7 desktop computer. I recently went to login required accounts on the server. Several of my accounts are experiencing the server requiring logging in several times in a row before allowing access. And sometimes you can just hit "Cancel" and it'll let you in anyway even if you haven't entered anything. I don't allow accounts to modify my server but otherwise the set up is out-of-the-box. No https required. Is there something I've done wrong to make the server repeatedly require login?

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08-20-2018, 12:17 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,907 Karma: 22669818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	IIRC this was a bug in some versions of the Chrome browser. Try using a different browser and you should be fine.

08-20-2018, 05:56 AM	#3
MizSuz Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Sony Touch, Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Aura, Android w/CoolReader	Welp, the issue seems to go away with the Samsung browser so I do believe you recall correctly. Thanks, Kovid!

08-20-2018, 06:25 AM	#4
MizSuz Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Sony Touch, Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Aura, Android w/CoolReader	Oops. Spoke too soon. Let me use it for a while and see if it continues to require multiple log in attempts with the Samsung browser, too. So far it did it only once.

08-20-2018, 08:41 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,907 Karma: 22669818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Isn't the samsung browser simply a wrapper around chrome anyway?

08-23-2018, 12:53 PM	#7
MizSuz Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Sony Touch, Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Aura, Android w/CoolReader	Ok then. The Brave browser (which is probably what I meant when I said Lion because the icon is a lion - duh) threw the multiple sign-in error, as well as that Uncaught IndexSizeError I was getting on that one book, but the Firefox browser had no such issues at all. So, repeat login issues using Pale Moon and Chrome on a desktop; and Samsung, Chrome, and Brave on an android mobile (Galaxy Note 8), but not on Firefox on the Android. I haven't tried firefox on the desktop. I can't remember the last time I updated it. I also had Mac users (desktop) complain about multiple log ins using Safari, but I told them that wasn't one of the browsers you supported and to try a more mainstream one. I haven't heard back yet about that.

08-23-2018, 12:58 PM	#8
MizSuz Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Sony Touch, Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Aura, Android w/CoolReader	And I just updated Pale Moon (which was a large, full version update with big coding changes in it) and now Pale Moon is working flawlessly both in login and with the browser reader. This is the first time Pale Moon as been able to use the browser reader, so that's nice. It's also my preferred desktop browser so - win!

08-23-2018, 10:59 PM	#9
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,907 Karma: 22669818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Hmm I'll have to look into how Chrome/Safari broke HTTP auth to see if I can work around the multiple login issue.

08-27-2018, 11:31 PM	#10
MizSuz Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Sony Touch, Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Aura, Android w/CoolReader	FYI - I turned off accounts today and I am no longer throwing errors in those books (in ANY browser) and, of course, the log-in stuff isn't at issue. I'm going to cross post about the book errors stopping on the other post I made about the errors so that it's in the right place. But I'm thinking it's the accounts being turned on that hosed me up.

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