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

[Emmanuel Blot]

BTW, is there an easy way to disable session tracking ?

I'm not sure whether session tracking brings a lot of feature, however 
it brings a lot of troubles. I do not think I can use Trac without 
getting this error message at least once a day. As authentication is 
done through HTTP header, I believe we can 'live' (i.e. use Trac) 
without sessions. Am I wrong ?


Sarah George wrote:
> 
> 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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