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doc/bugs/Error:_Your_login_session_has_expired._.mdwn

@@ -9,3 +9,31 @@ Whilst trying to edit http://hugh.vm.bytemark.co.uk/ikiwiki.cgi via OpenID. Any
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+> This error occurs if ikiwiki sees something that looks like a CSRF
+> attack. It checks for such an attack by embedding your session id on the
+> page edit form, and comparing that id with the session id used to post
+> the form.
+> 
+> So, somehow your session id has changed between opening the edit form and
+> posting it. A few ways this could happen:
+> 
+> * Genuine CSRF attack (unlikely)
+> * If you logged out and back in, in another tab, while the edit form was
+>   open.
+> * If `.ikiwiki/sessions.db` was deleted/corrupted while you were in the
+>   midst of the edit.
+> * If some bug in CGI::Session caused your session not to be saved to the
+>   database somehow.
+> * If your browser didn't preserve the session cookie across the edit
+>   process, for whatever local reason.
+> * If you were using a modified version of `editpage.tmpl`, and 
+>   it did not include `FIELD-SID`.
+> * If you upgraded from an old version of ikiwiki, before `FIELD-SID` was
+>   added (<= 2.41), and had an edit form open from that old version, and
+>   tried to save it using the new.
+>  
+> I don't see the problem editing the sandbox there myself, FWIW.
+> (BTW, shouldn't you enable the meta plugin so RecentChanges displays
+> better?)
+> --[[joey]]