[Trac] Headline news: Cookie expiration causes boss to panic

Sarah George Sarah.George at infotech.monash.edu.au
Tue Feb 8 17:32:52 EST 2005


Hi,

I had a rather funny experience yesterday. I was showing my boss what 
Trac looks like and at one point we had closed the browser and then went 
back to it and got the normal "cookie expired, login or be anonymous" 
error.

My boss totally panicked because she saw the word "error" and figured we 
must have broken the whole system. It took a while to calm her down.

Having read through the screen carefully I can't see any suggestion on 
how to make it cause less panic; the messages seem quite reasonable to 
me. Perhaps just say "Cannot resume authenticated session" rather than 
"error accessing authenticated session" or something like that; but it 
seems like a lot of trouble to go to for one person panicking.

Anyway, even without making it a proper bug report I figured it was an 
amusing story :)

-- Sarah





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