RC suffering from multiple redirects

[bocode]

I'm a newbie and trying to get something done with RC. So here goes my problemo:

1) i've a simple HTML form page which takes username/password for RC (am not using the index.php as login page).

2) the login info is posted to a simple php and it puts the form data in session and redirects to rc/index.php. Here is the code for this simple php:
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   session_start();
   $_POST['_user']=$_POST['uname'];
   $_POST['_pass'] = $_POST['passwd'];
   $_SESSION = $_POST;
   session_write_close();
   header("Location: rc/index.php");
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3) at the top of RC index.php page i've the following:
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session_start();
$_POST = $_SESSION;
session_write_close();
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That is all when it comes to changing the files or writing code.

Now when i enter my uname/passwd in the HTML form of step 1 and hit submit, the index.php of RC is calling itself over and over making browser to bail out. My Apache log has this line repeating over and over:

GET /rc/?_task=mail HTTP/1.1" 302 -

So my question is why does this happen? If i use rc/index.php directly then it works just fine (even with the lines in step 3 at the top of the index.php).

[SKaero]

There is no reason to be changing RoundCube's core code use a plugin instead. The auto logon plugin should work for what your trying to do: http://trac.roundcube.net/browser/trunk/roundcubemail/plugins/autologon

[bocode]

Thank you for the reply.

autologon plugin makes sense when am on localhost. What am trying to do is to have a common login page for squirrelmail and roundcube. I succeeded in making the squirrelmail work with the above technique but when it comes to RC, it fails. I do not understand why this fails. Why does RC do multiple redirects?

[bocode]

Hello All,

Am still waiting for a deployable solution for this issue. Is there anybody out there to help me with this?

Thank you

[rosali]

Check my 'logout_redirect' plugin (bundled with MyRoundcube plugin - see signature).

There is a AJAX login sample included. This should work for your purpose.