Hi Jagan,

Are you sure this isn't a caching issue? It's likely that the user's browser
is returning the pre-login page to the user from cache, even after they've
logged in.

You can verify this by checking your logs to see if a new request was made,
or by including a timestamp in the page.

-Nick Johnson

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Jagan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I had to spend 2 days to figure out a strange problem relating to
> using Google Users service.
>
> Problem: I recently enabled Google Accounts sign in in my app. But in
> production, when someone signs in with their Google account, the
> landing page (/trees/list.htm in my case) after the sign in returned
> None (null) for the users.get_current_user(), in Python. I think this
> problem would exist in Java world as well. Strangely, if I hit the
> landing page after 5 to 10 min in the same browser page, the function
> returned the signed in Google user!!
>
> Solution: I figured that this happens when the landing (redirect) page
> given to Google is *different* from the page that redirects or
> generates the link to the Google sign in page (/login.htm in my case),
> this 5 to 10 min of delay occurs when the users.get_current_user() api
> returns the signed in Google user. When I am instructing Google to
> redirect to the same page (login.htm) that generated the link to the
> Google sign page, this bug was solved.
>
> Possible explanation by me: It might be due to something like sticky
> sessions, in which the cloud server that generated the Google Login
> URL sees the signed up user instantly than the other servers in the
> cloud. So when the landing page is different from this URL, the
> request goes to some other machine in the cloud, where it takes 5 to
> 10 min for the data of Google user signed-in to be propagated!!
>
> Thoughts?
>
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