@Derek

I went through the steps you mentioned. By default (at least according to the config file) store-auth-creds is defaulted to yes. I changed the file to be explicit.

The cache contained certificates for my svn server url so that was fine.

Still fails with the authorization message.

I’ll maybe come back to this another day, I’ve already spent too much time trying to get it running in our environment now and have no success. Maybe I’ll try to get a sandbox running in isolation, but that’s really not going to help me much.

Thanks.

@Jonathan: I’m working on a Visual Studio plugin which provides read-only access to cards in projects. Not sure what you’re referring to as far as SCM plugins since Mingle isn’t a source control system. If you’re talking about having Mingle show commits from TFS (like how it does with Subversion) then my plug-in won’t help.

More information. Turns out that I’m using IE6 and they’ve disabled the username:password@server syntax with a security patch some time ago. Unfortunately I don’t have access to anything but IE6 for testing right now (so FF or something is a problem).

I did find a registry hack to remove this behavior and just trying to get the link working in the browser first. I still think there’s something wrong in the Mingle API to get this working. For example, I’m trying to run against my own local install (localhost) on port 8080 with non-LDAP authentication (Mingle is keeping track of usernames and passwords).

Here’s the request when I use the username:password@server:port syntax in my browser:

GET /projects/test/cards.xml HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/x-silverlight, application/xaml+xml, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/x-ms-xbap, application/x-ms-application, application/x-silverlight-2-b1, /*
Accept-Language: en-ca
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648)
Host: localhost:8080
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: last-visited-project=brms; MINGLE20SESSIONID=1kzb9dfuh9meb; _session_id=e19df056d9eb37d38f87f49e23f73657

And here’s the response:
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
Set-Cookie: _session_id=e19df056d9eb37d38f87f49e23f73657; path=/
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 32
Server: Jetty(6.1.5)

Incorrect username or password.

I know I’m using the correct username/password here (typed it into the login form).

Is it possible Mingle cannot handle the username:password url *and a specified port number? Or maybe this just won’t work in IE6 no matter what?

One more thing, if I sign out of Mingle and enter this into the browser:

http://[server]:[port]/projects/[project]/cards.xml

Using fiddler I see this header come back (using IE6):

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
Set-Cookie: _session_id=4eb2940600bcc00be22ffc975514cddf; path=/
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 32
Server: Jetty(6.1.5)

Incorrect username or password.

Thanks. Is it a feature I should request or is it just something that’s already planned?

Watch for it on CodePlex, my second home.

Thanks David. Didn’t know that existed (although I haven’t read every page in the help system). Didn’t see it in the help tree so maybe it needs better visibility?

Is there a list of any other Special: pages in the system? I can’t get a result here if I search for “Special:” (and “Special” brings back too many results).

Thanks.