[Mediawiki-l] MW seems to get confused when IP address of client machine changes while user is logged in

[Dan Nessett]

On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:26:07 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Dan Nessett <dnessett at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> > What problems remain other than the ones I noted previously as being
>> > known problems or expected behavior?
>>
>> Documented in the bug report (comment 4).
>>
>>
> Ok so to confirm:
> 
> * This is primarily about the bug we told you should be fixed by the
> session security fix in 1.16.5 if it's happening to you * You can't
> reproduce it on 1.16.5, but also can't reproduce it on 1.16.2 anymore?
> * You're trying to reproduce it exactly on 1.16.2 so you personally can
> confirm it is indeed fixed in 1.16.5
> * The loads of details about session info and behavior are just for you
> to log what's going on so you can identify the bug when you see it, and
> don't indicate any new issues.
> 
> I've changed the summary on the bug to indicate that it's an old bug
> believed to be fixed in 1.16.5, and not something new or remaining that
> would require additional fixes.
> 
> -- brion

This morning I reproduced the problem described in comment 4 of the bug 
report in 1.16.5. Details are given there in comment 11.


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-- Dan Nessett