On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote:

> Flushing cache with CRTL F5. IE9 still shows just login.  If it was a
> cache page I would expect to see username, etc.
>
> Logged in appearance is the ability to edit pages. Anonymous users are
> denied edit privileges. What concerns me more, if an edit is done, ip
> address shows as editor in page history.
>
> CTRL F5 in Chrome shows username and logged in. Edit shows username.
>
> It is like you are 1/2 logged in. You are a valid token for a user, but
> can't determine which so it falls back on ip address instead.
>
> Huge security hole, public computer. If a user logs out it is fine. The
> token is broken. But if they just close browser, and someone reopened to
> same wiki, you have edit privileges. Unless it is my host and I have to
> force a new session somehow.
>
>
> Tom
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 29, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 29/01/12 19:48, Tom wrote:
> >> Was this fixed or written about somewhere.? 16.0 having cookie issues.
> >>
> >> IE 9 is holding partial session cookie. If I login in IE 9 then close
> the browser,
> >> then reopen browser mediawiki sees a partial cookie. I appear to be
> logged in, can edit,
> >> yet ip is logged not username. The top right user menu just shows log
> in. When I move
> >> to different pages, ip shows, edit is available, login link still
> showing.
> >
> > If the top right menu is asking you to log in (whether it shows your ip
> or not, that bit doesn't matter), what makes you "appear to be logged in"?
> > Is it that the first page after reopening the browser is showing your
> username there? That page could have been retrieved from the cache, instead
> of the new (the problem wouldn't be cookies but cache serving stale pages).
> >
> >
> >
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Reads like these discussions,
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2011-October/038035.html

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2011-November/038160.html

and this bug,
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32122
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