[Zope] FSSession problems...

Curtis Maloney curtis@umd.com.au
Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:17:30 +1100


On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Curtis Maloney wrote:
> > Today, however, I find out that some mistakes have been happening. 
> > People are finding themselves logged in when they haven't yet, and others
> > finding they're logged in as someone else.  This is, obivously, a
> > problem.
>
> Warning! Shot in the dark ahead. :-)
>
> Is it possible that your visitors who are experiencing this problem are
> sitting behind a proxy that is improperly caching their cookies. I've seen
> something like this where you could log in to zope.org, go to a different
> machine and find that you were logged in there too.
>

Not something I hadn't considered.  But I dismissed it fairly quickly, as I 
saw the behaviour displayed on two machines in house, which do not use a 
proxy.

What I _have_ considered, tho, is that Apache, which is set in ProxyForward 
mode, might be confusing the issue somewhat.

> -Tim

Curtis.