topic Firefox - Login page twice before proceeding to dashboard in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/firefox-login-page-twice-before-proceeding-to-dashboard/m-p/251945#M205075 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We are using Community 3.3 and are having some problems regarding the login page on Firefox.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We use LDAP for our authentication, and the alfresco-global.properties shows:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm,ldap1:ldap<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>When a user tries to login with Firefox, they enter their LDAP details, hit Login, and are sent straight back to the login window, with no errors displayed. They can then either a) press login again, or b) hit refresh and be directed towards their dashboard.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In Safari, this problem does not exist and they are taken straight to their dashboard.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>To check it wasn't something strange with failing on alfrescoNtlm, I turned on debug for authentication in log4j.properties:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>08:50:44,984&nbsp; DEBUG [security.authentication.AuthenticationComponentImpl] Authenticating user "daniel@xxx.com"<BR />08:50:45,028&nbsp; DEBUG [security.authentication.AuthenticationComponentImpl] Failed to authenticate user "daniel@xxx.com"<BR />org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationException: 10090005 net.sf.acegisecurity.BadCredentialsException: Bad credentials presented<BR />net.sf.acegisecurity.BadCredentialsException: Bad credentials presented<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at net.sf.acegisecurity.providers.dao.DaoAuthenticationProvider.authenticate(DaoAuthenticationProvider.java:290)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at net.sf.acegisecurity.providers.ProviderManager.doAuthentication(ProviderManager.java:159)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at net.sf.acegisecurity.AbstractAuthenticationManager.authenticate(AbstractAuthenticationManager.java:49)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationComponentImpl.authenticateImpl(AuthenticationComponentImpl.java:75)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationComponent.authenticate(AbstractAuthenticationComponent.java:158)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationServiceImpl.authenticate(AuthenticationServiceImpl.java:90)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AbstractChainingAuthenticationService.authenticate(AbstractChainingAuthenticationService.java:184)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:307)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:183)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:150)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.method.aopalliance.MethodSecurityInterceptor.invoke(MethodSecurityInterceptor.java:80)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.ExceptionTranslatorMethodInterceptor.invoke(ExceptionTranslatorMethodInterceptor.java:43)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.audit.AuditMethodInterceptor.invoke(AuditMethodInterceptor.java:135)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:107)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at $Proxy39.authenticate(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.bean.AbstractLoginBean.login(AbstractLoginBean.java:66)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.bean.LoginPost.executeImpl(LoginPost.java:73)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeWebScript.executeImpl(DeclarativeWebScript.java:231)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeWebScript.execute(DeclarativeWebScript.java:64)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer$2.execute(RepositoryContainer.java:367)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:321)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.transactionedExecute(RepositoryContainer.java:417)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.transactionedExecuteAs(RepositoryContainer.java:434)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.executeScript(RepositoryContainer.java:257)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:319)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:177)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServlet.service(WebScriptServlet.java:116)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:852)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationComponentImpl.authenticateImpl(AuthenticationComponentImpl.java:89)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationComponent.authenticate(AbstractAuthenticationComponent.java:158)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationServiceImpl.authenticate(AuthenticationServiceImpl.java:90)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AbstractChainingAuthenticationService.authenticate(AbstractChainingAuthenticationService.java:184)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:307)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:183)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:150)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.method.aopalliance.MethodSecurityInterceptor.invoke(MethodSecurityInterceptor.java:80)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.ExceptionTranslatorMethodInterceptor.invoke(ExceptionTranslatorMethodInterceptor.java:43)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.audit.AuditMethodInterceptor.invoke(AuditMethodInterceptor.java:135)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:107)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at $Proxy39.authenticate(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.bean.AbstractLoginBean.login(AbstractLoginBean.java:66)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.bean.LoginPost.executeImpl(LoginPost.java:73)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeWebScript.executeImpl(DeclarativeWebScript.java:231)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeWebScript.execute(DeclarativeWebScript.java:64)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer$2.execute(RepositoryContainer.java:367)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:321)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.transactionedExecute(RepositoryContainer.java:417)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.transactionedExecuteAs(RepositoryContainer.java:434)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.executeScript(RepositoryContainer.java:257)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:319)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:177)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServlet.service(WebScriptServlet.java:116)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:852)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)<BR />08:50:45,030&nbsp; DEBUG [authentication.ldap.LDAPAuthenticationComponentImpl] Authenticating user "daniel@xxx.com"<BR />08:50:45,207&nbsp; DEBUG [authentication.ldap.LDAPAuthenticationComponentImpl] Setting the current user to "daniel@xxx.com"<BR />08:50:45,209 User:daniel@xxx.com DEBUG [authentication.ldap.LDAPAuthenticationComponentImpl] User "daniel@xxx.com" authenticated successfully<SPAN 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/><SPAN>However, this shows up in the logs after the request is made in both Safari and Firefox.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>To be certain, I changed</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm,ldap1:ldap<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>To</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>authentication.chain=ldap1:ldap<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>and still no joy, Firefox users are still sent back to the login page.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've hunted around and tried to find other's with a similar issue, the closest was a localisation issue which we are not implementing.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any suggestions?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:21:04 GMT dddanmar 2010-11-08T23:21:04Z Firefox - Login page twice before proceeding to dashboard https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/firefox-login-page-twice-before-proceeding-to-dashboard/m-p/251945#M205075 Hi,We are using Community 3.3 and are having some problems regarding the login page on Firefox.We use LDAP for our authentication, and the alfresco-global.properties shows:authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm,ldap1:ldap‍When a user tries to login with Firefox, they enter their LDAP detail Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:21:04 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/firefox-login-page-twice-before-proceeding-to-dashboard/m-p/251945#M205075 dddanmar 2010-11-08T23:21:04Z Re: Firefox - Login page twice before proceeding to dashboard https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/firefox-login-page-twice-before-proceeding-to-dashboard/m-p/251946#M205076 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>*bump*</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm still no where closer to resolving this issue.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can someone perhaps suggest where I should be looking for the cause of the problem?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:52:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/firefox-login-page-twice-before-proceeding-to-dashboard/m-p/251946#M205076 dddanmar 2010-11-15T06:52:24Z