Unable to access Directadmin using Nokia E61

[ktizo]

Anyone tried using Nokia E61 to access DA? When I access the control panel, a pop-up screen asked for username and password instead of the usual web base login screen. The problem is it does not allow me to login even if I use the correct uid and pw.
Any help on symbian OS would be much appreciated.

 

[nobaloney]

It's possible that the Nokia won't pass the combination of secure login and/or port 2222. First, if you use a secure login, you may have to turn it off (which is a security issue); second, if you use port 2222 and the Nokia E61 doesn't like it you may have to switch to a Port the Nokia likes. There are posts on these forums on using other ports besides port 2222.

Jeff

 

[heininger]

I have exactly the same problem and cannot login with a ***** E61.
Is there a logfile on the system where I can see the http requests to DA?

TIA,
Mike

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

You can restart DA into debug mode to view the headers going past:

cd /usr/local/directadmin
/sbin/service directadmin stop
./directadmin b400

DirectAdmin does not pass the login popup anymore, so I couldn't really say why you're getting it. Perhaps the cookies/sessions are working the same as for a standard browser.

John

 

[heininger]

You can restart DA into debug mode to view the headers going past ...

Debug Output from N o k i a E61 Webbrowser:

 0: Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1, utf-8; q=0.7, *; q=0.7
 1: Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, x-gzip, identity; q=0.9
 2: Accept-Language: de;q=1.0,en;q=0.5,tr;q=0.5,et;q=0.5
 3: Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,text/css,text/vnd.*****.rs-tgd, */*
 4: Cookie2: $Version=1
 5: Cookie: session=
 6: Host: www.domain.com:2222
 7: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.1; U; en-us) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413 es61

Debug Output from Firefox Webbrowser:

 0: Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
 1: Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
 2: Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
 3: Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
 4: Connection: keep-alive
 5: Host: www.domain.com:2222
 6: Keep-Alive: 300
 7: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; de; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
didn't find the encrytped text
 0: Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
 1: Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
 2: Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
 3: Accept: image/png,*/*;q=0.5
 4: Connection: keep-alive
 5: Cookie: session=
 6: Host: www.domain.com:2222
 7: Keep-Alive: 300
 8: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; de; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

The Symbian Browser got the HTTP Login and could not login ... Firefox got the normal HTML Login Form and could login.

Both browser accessed the DA server only once, although the Firefox browser has two headers in the debug output.

Please note that the Firefox request produced the "didn't find the encrytped text" between the two headers.

BTW: Opera for Symbian works ...

TIA,
Mike

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Thanks for the reply.. I don't see anything in the headers that would cause it.. If you don't even see the correct login page, then something being sent in the basic form is forcing the login popup.

The First header that DA sends in the http response for the login page is:

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

which is what used to be sent when we used the popup login method. If you want to send us an email: support at directadmin.com, let us know which OS version you're using and we can send your a binary that has a different response code without the 401. (reference this thread). Then let me know if it works and I can include it in the next relelase of DA.

Based on that theory, then you *should* be able to use this to login:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=61
because the the login page is elsewhere. Test this out to see if it works.

John

 

[heininger]

If you want to send us an email: support at directadmin.com, let us know which OS version you're using and we can send your a binary that has a different response code without the 401. (reference this thread). Then let me know if it works and I can include it in the next relelase of DA.

Thanks for your help! I will send you the email ...

Based on that theory, then you *should* be able to use this to login:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=61
because the the login page is elsewhere. Test this out to see if it works.

This works! Great!!!

TIA,
Mike

 

[heininger]

Then let me know if it works and I can include it in the next relelase of DA.

Works perfect!

TIA,
Mike