Hi,
Users of mine are running into a problematic situation where a page is left in "edit" mode for several hours. At the end of the day they press "Save" and instead of directly saving, the page shows up a preview.
Users have checked the "Remember me" box so that login shouldn't be an issue here.
Any ideas?
Apache/debien/mediawiki server, firefox/windowsxp clients.
Thanks
Laurent
laurent wrote:
Hi,
Users of mine are running into a problematic situation where a page is left in "edit" mode for several hours. At the end of the day they press "Save" and instead of directly saving, the page shows up a preview.
Users have checked the "Remember me" box so that login shouldn't be an issue here.
Any ideas?
this is a bad idea, but it happens to me also :-(
best is to select the text, save it, connect and paste;
beware if the page has been modified by another people in the mean time
jdd
laurent wrote:
Users of mine are running into a problematic situation where a page is left in "edit" mode for several hours. At the end of the day they press "Save" and instead of directly saving, the page shows up a preview.
Users have checked the "Remember me" box so that login shouldn't be an issue here.
This is because the session eventually times out. With this gone, the security token which protects against cross-site request forgery attacks can no longer be confirmed and you have to go through one preview step while your session is reestablished and a new token assigned.
In php.ini you'll find a number of options related to sessions, including:
; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and ; cleaned up by the garbage collection process. session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
If you up that a lot, it might or might not help.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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