Head's up that this has broken login for mobile - the varnish conf for
mobilefrontend needs to be updated:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79837/


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]>wrote:

> Please note that the session cookie name on WMF wikis has changed from
> <wiki>_session to <wiki>Session. That is, for example, enwiki_session
> to enwikiSession.
>
> This was done in response to a security issue -- we had to find some
> way to rapidly cause all session IDs to be regenerated. Changing the
> cookie name was the simplest way to achieve that. More details should
> become available once we are sure that the security issue is fixed.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
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