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Joey Hess 2016-04-28 19:32:58 -04:00
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@ -38,3 +38,23 @@ Thanks. --[[anarcat]]
Update: now I can't login to the ikiwiki.info site anymore, getting
the same errors as on the git-annex site.
> This seems to be a concacentation of multiple unrelated problems with
> different stuff, which is not a good bug report technique. Then to add to
> the fun, you filed the same bug on branchable too. Sigh!
>
> The `time_bad_sig` problem with the perl openid library is a problem I am
> aware of but it's not clear if the problem is clock skew, or a protocol
> problem. At least one user to report it seemed to get it due to a http
> proxy. I'm pretty sure it could also happen if multiple openid logins
> were attempted at the same time (the `consumer_secret` which is stored
> server-side is used). The problem is not specific to ikiwiki.
>
> Ikiwiki says "login failed, perhaps you need to turn on cookies?" when
> the user successfully logged in, but their cookie does not indicate why
> they were logging in to begin with, so ikiwiki does not know what action
> to continue to. One way to get this when cookies are enabled is to
> re-post a login form after already using it, by eg using the back button
> to go back to a previous login form and try to reuse it.
>
> --[[Joey]]