Out of a sudden I cannot open my Drupal site anymore. I will get a "content encoding error" from Firefox and that the website cannot be displayed. As mentioned in this thread I turned the PHP debugging (error display) off and the site would show again. However, I cannot login anymore. I tried various accounts with the correct password but would get an "Access Denied" for all attempt. I even clicked the "Forgot password" link and would get a one-time-link to my email account. But when clicking the link and then the button which should lead me to my user profile I would get the same access denied error again.

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MiMe’s picture

MiMe commented
Version: 6.17 » 6.19

I also get access denied when I login using Google Chrome 6.0.472.55. No problem when I login with Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.6.9. Running a multisite installation I only have login problem (access denied) with the website in the default folder.

With Drupal 6.16 I did not have any issues with access denied, this appeared (for me) with Drupal 6.19 since I did an upgrade from 6.16 to 6.19.

Login did not work at all in any browser until I uncommented $cookie_domain in the settings.php, then the login worked in IE8... I guess that the developers did something to cookie handling in Drupal 6.19 that is not working in all web browsers.

I'm changing version to 6.19 since its still not fixed.

grendzy’s picture

grendzy commented
Category: bug » support
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

The "content encoding error" usually means the content-encoding header is wrong - it's labeling the content as gzip when it's not, or vice versa. What contrib modules do you have installed?

dddave’s picture

dddave commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

Cleaning up...

No feedback, guess this is fixed.

MhueD’s picture

MhueD commented

This is NOT fixed...two of our team cannot login with Chrome, but can with Firefox. It happened after the 6.17 to 6.20 Core upgrade and we have tried quite a few fixes --> incl. clearing the sessions table, changing all the cookie settings, reinstalling Chrome, killing the Chrome-side cookies, etc. We also CAN get in our sub-domain sites, but not our main one. Thank god Firefox is still working, or our admin would be on lock-out. This is a doozie...somebody must have an idea here (besides dufusii such as I who are utterly stumped due to our impressive ignorance!)

scott_earnest’s picture

scott_earnest commented

Not sure if this will help but it did for me:

#439614: Devel + Caching + PHP display_errors on = "Content Encoding Error"