Posting a message on Flow is not possible when cookies are not activated
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	Trizek-WMF
	Mar 17 2017, 2:37 PM

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Reported there.

The page is displayed, but it is not possible to click on any field (cursor=wait).

Tested on Firefox with Windows 7 Professional or Windows 10, or Google Chrome with Windows 10 by the user.
Tested on Chromium with Ubuntu by me.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Remove Storer	mediawiki/extensions/Flow	master	+9 -1 K

Customize query in gerrit

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Trizek-WMF created this task.Mar 17 2017, 2:37 PM

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Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 17 2017, 2:38 PM

Pppery renamed this task from Post a message on Flow is not possible when cookies are not activated to Posting a message on Flow is not possible when cookies are not activated.Mar 19 2017, 7:10 PM

Zppix subscribed.Mar 19 2017, 7:12 PM

Trizek-WMF added a subscriber: Etonkovidova.Mar 21 2017, 5:59 PM

This happens because Flow tries to access sessionStorage, which throws an exception. The weird Storer module that Flow uses doesn't handle this correctly.

Change 343939 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope):
[mediawiki/extensions/Flow] Remove Storer

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/343939

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 21 2017, 6:25 PM

Change 343939 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Flow] Remove Storer

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/343939

• jmatazzoni edited projects, added Collaboration-Team-Triage (Collab-Team-Q3-Jan-Mar-2017); removed Collaboration-Team-Triage.Mar 22 2017, 12:08 AM

• jmatazzoni moved this task from Untriaged to Ready for Pickup on the Collaboration-Team-Triage (Collab-Team-Q3-Jan-Mar-2017) board.

It seems that disabling cookies kicks a user out of the session, so the edits will be attributed to anon. I think it's expected?

In T160754#3120479, @Etonkovidova wrote:

It seems that disabling cookies kicks a user out of the session, so the edits will be attributed to anon. I think it's expected?

Yes, if you disable cookies you cannot be logged in.

Catrope moved this task from Ready for Pickup to QA Review on the Collaboration-Team-Triage (Collab-Team-Q3-Jan-Mar-2017) board.Mar 22 2017, 5:19 PM

Checked the fix in betalabs.

QA Recommendation: Resolve

Etonkovidova moved this task from QA Review to Product Review on the Collaboration-Team-Triage (Collab-Team-Q3-Jan-Mar-2017) board.Mar 23 2017, 12:56 AM

• jmatazzoni closed this task as Resolved.Mar 23 2017, 8:29 PM

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