Dear all

I've recently upgraded the site to Drupal 6.16, and I've run into a strange bug, which I believe may be due to IPauthenticator.

Put simply, the search function fails to work. When anything is typed in to the search box and the button pressed, the site simply returns the original page. This is especially puzzling because:

1) Anonymous users can search, without problems

2) going directly to search/node/term delivers the search results for that term (in other words, it isn't a permissions issue that I can see)

3) IPAuthenticator is correctly logging the user in (content that should only be visible to users logged in via IPAuthenticaor is only visible to these users).

4) If I disable IPAuthenticator, unblock an account, and manually log in, then I can search without problems using that account.

It seems to me that something is happening with the IPauthenticator code between my hitting search and the system returning the search results. If anyone could point me in the direction of a fix, I'd be grateful. I'd be happy to add an ip to the ipauthenticator range if anyone wanted to test this.

Best wishes,

Tom