Re: Possible bug found

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On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:08:29AM -0700, Ian MacGregor wrote:
> I think I found a bug. I went to the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
> FreenodeCloaks page to check something and found that I needed to log in to
> edit that page but I was already logged into the wiki (I had been working on
> wiki sweep all week). I clicked on the "history" tab of that page and found
> that I was indeed logged in - according to the content at the upper right
> corner. I closed that tab in firefox, opened a new tab, manually typed in the
> address again and found that the upper right corner of the page showed that I
> needed to log in - but I was logged into the wiki the entire time. Is it normal
> for some pages to not recognize a currently logged in state?
>
It could be the difference between http:// and https:// .  We try to set the
session cookies to only return on https:// links -- otherwise someone could
hijack your session by intercepting packets.

-Toshio

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