From: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Session timeout on commitfest.postgresql.org |
Date: | 2010-08-10 15:32:22 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTikQN9KfpUdaUwV+Uupra6FFHejEmxLJk1R3bv+P@mail.gmail.com |
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On 10 August 2010 16:26, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
>>> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>>> $SUBJECT seems to be less than 12 hours, which is annoyingly
>>>> short. I don't see a good reason why I should have to log in
>>>> again every morning. I could see expiring the cookie in a week or
>>>> so, or tying it to a particular IP address, but this is just
>>>> getting in the way.
>>
>>> Could it be a firewall doing that to you?
>>
>> Don't see how a firewall could affect cookies. Possibly this is a
>> browser-specific issue, though. I'm using current-rev Safari on a Mac.
>> I notice it shows the commitfest cookie as having no particular
>> expiration time, which may mean that some Apple-specific expiration
>> policy gets applied. But on the other hand, when I got prompted to
>> log in this morning, I checked the cookie list and there was such a
>> cookie there already --- so it wasn't that the browser had just dropped
>> it.
>
> *scratches head*
>
> I don't see how that's possible, unless your browser is eating cookies
> for breakfast. There's no code anywhere in the application to (a)
> remove cookies from the database or (b) refuse to use cookies that are
> in the database based on the time they were issued. I can change the
> code to set an expires header (in fact, I'm working on that that now),
> but the symptoms you describe are inexplicable.
>
> --
Not anything to do with this?:
http://hivelogic.com/articles/the-safari-cookie-issue-fixed
--
Thom Brown
Registered Linux user: #516935
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