Authentication error or maybe it isn't? - no user/password was provided

[Francis Daly]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 04:17:34PM -0400, dalmolin wrote:

Hi there,

> One strange thing I have noticed is that I keep getting an
> error in the Nginx error log for the Android device, here are the
> abbreviated logs from Nginx's access.log and error.log:
> 
> access.log entries:
> 199.7.156.144 - - [20/Oct/2013:15:38:49 -0400] "OPTIONS
> /USERID/testcalhttps/ HTTP/1.1" 401 194 "-" "CalDAV-Sync (Android) (like
> iOS/5.0.1 (9A405) dataaccessd/1.0) gzip" "-"
> 
> 199.1.1.1 - MYUSERID [20/Oct/2013:15:38:50 -0400] "OPTIONS
> /USERID/testcalhttps/ HTTP/1.1" 200 5 "-" "CalDAV-Sync (Android) (like
> iOS/5.0.1 (9A405) dataaccessd/1.0) gzip" "-"

That indicates that the client made a http request, was told "need auth",
and then repeated the request with authentication credentials which
were accepted.

That's pretty much how things are supposed to work.

The only odd thing I see is that the source IP address changed between
the two requests.

> error.log entries:
> 2013/10/20 15:38:49 [error] 6797#0: *241 no user/password was provided for
> basic authentication, client: 199.1.1.1, server: , request: "OPTIONS
> /USERID/testcalhttps/ HTTP/1.1", host: "mysserver.com:1905"

That matches what access.log shows.

> The userid and password were correctly entered during setup of the calendar
> on the client and as I said it all works fine... I can add, delete, modify
> calendar entries and synch across all my devices. But I keep getting this
> pesky error when using my phone. 

Either accept that the phone is correct, and all of the other clients
are sending your password before they were asked for it; or change the
phone app to take the same shortcut.

It probably isn't a config setting in the phone app.

> So it looks like the
> userid/password are processed after the first request somehow.

Yes; the phone doesn't send the userid/password on the first request.

> Also, it may
> be helpful to know that the phone is connecting to Nginx via the internet
> and portforwarding via my router to the server. Might this error message
> simply be the result of the way I am accessing the server... as I don't get
> the same error when I access the server via the LAN and my laptop.

Probably not. Does the laptop via the internet show the same behaviour?

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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org