acts_as_authenticated spasms July 10th, 2007
Real obscure error...
The mephisto blog system uses http-authentication from acs_as_authenticated to protect the overview feed(the feed details all activity on the blog).
I was modifying my dispatch.fcgi file to pass the authentication headers but it kept failing mysteriously. acts_as_authenticated splits the decoded data as "user:pass", but doesn't consider leftovers, like say a ":" in your password(as there was in mine). Then you get failures and confusion.
So don't put a colon in your password, and I will submit a patch.
[Update] Patch submitted.
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