Tickets :: Comment on [#3386] logouts due to imp

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Comment	>>> another patch to make imp authentication more resilient against > >>> disappearing cookies, due to timeouts or browser "quirks". this will > >>> recover the password from the horde credentials if possible, or > >>> invalidate the session if the horde credentials can't be decrypted. > >>> this gives the user a session error instead of a login error, which > >>> may be less alarming, and prevents the failed IMAP login, which takes > >>> time (10 to 15 seconds in our case) and leaves ugly log entries both > >>> on the horde/imp server and the imap server. > >> > >> Shouldn't this be fixed with the other commit referenced in this > >> ticket? the cookies - auth and app specific - are set within > >> microseconds of each other, but cookie expiration are only allowed in > >> seconds so this expiration value should be at most no more than a > >> second different from each other. > >> > >> this code is also invalid if not using 'hordeauth'. > > > > i think the second patch is unnecessary, yes. i'd thought we were > still running into cases where cookies were disappearing even with > the first patch in place, but it was very rare, and i was never able > to understand what could have caused it, particularly since the > problem seemed to affect only the *_key cookies (and not Horde > cookies). > > > > our environment was pretty dynamic at the time -- we were juggling > different versions and configurations of php and several different > debugging patches to horde/imp at the same time. i'm content to say > i probably wasn't seeing what i thought i was seeing.
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