[Savannah-dev] [Bug #1260] New "nongnu.org" site breaks sessions and prefs

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http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=1260&group_id=11

Changes by: Mathieu Roy <address@hidden>
Date: 2002-Sep-23 16:40 (Europe/Paris)

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The interest is having prefs without being logged in.


Anyway, apparently the function setcookie is unable to set the cookie domain 
unless the domain choosed is the name of the server. It means that 
savannah.gnu.org will probably not granted to set a cookie for 
savannah.nongnu.org.





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Submitted by: ydirson                   Project: Savannah                       
Submitted on: 2002-Sep-23 10:25
Category:  None                         Severity:  5 - Average                  
Priority:  None                         Bug Group:  None                        
Resolution:  None                       Assigned to:  None                      
Status:  Open                           Effort:  0.00                           

Summary:  New "nongnu.org" site breaks sessions and prefs

Original Submission:  I just discovered that non-gnu projects appear to have 
been migrated to savannah.nongnu.org - maybe some announcement should be done 
so that people would know something changed.

As a consequence of this change, when I login as usual in s.gnu.org, then 
follow an admin link to one of my projects, I reach an annoying "Insufficient 
Group Access".  If I login there, I do not get my prefs.

Follow-up Comments
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Date: 2002-Sep-23 16:40             By: yeupou
The interest is having prefs without being logged in.


Anyway, apparently the function setcookie is unable to set the cookie domain 
unless the domain choosed is the name of the server. It means that 
savannah.gnu.org will probably not granted to set a cookie for 
savannah.nongnu.org.



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Date: 2002-Sep-23 15:07             By: ydirson
What are the reasons behind having some prefs depending on cookies ?  Eg., I 
can't see why the selected theme is not in the db ?

To share the sessions, what about setting cookies for both sites at once ?
(hm, I currently block cookies not matching current website:)


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Date: 2002-Sep-23 14:52             By: yeupou
"Was such a mess worth the trouble ?"

Yes.  Having gnu.org in the url of non-GNU projects is highly misleading.

"What about sharing at least prefs & such things ?"

Prefs that depends  on the database are already share. Prefs that depends on 
cookies not.

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Date: 2002-Sep-23 14:40             By: ydirson
Was such a mess worth the trouble ?
What about sharing at least prefs & such things ?


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Date: 2002-Sep-23 14:35             By: yeupou
« just discovered that non-gnu projects appear to have been migrated to 
savannah.nongnu.org - maybe some announcement should be done so that people 
would know something changed »

We wait for the mailing-list to works with the correct domain names.

The problem is that savannah.gnu.org and savannah.nongnu.org are two virtuals 
hosts, understood as too differents servers. Session are stored via cookie for 
a particular server. So you need to be logged in the two separate servers.


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