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mediawiki sometimes incorrectly says I have cookies disabled (sul3, local account auto creation)
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Description

  • log in to loginwiki, uncheck 1 year box
  • in loginwiki search box type w:
  • log in to enwiki too. (don't have to fill form, just click log in and SUL does the rest. enwiki account already existed)
  • repeat last 2 steps with fr: or outreach:, got log in form, tried to log in, got cookies error message. (local account didn't exist yet in those places)

Outreach Wiki uses cookies to log in users. You have cookies disabled. Please enable them and try again.

initially saw with outreach with a less controlled test, later happened again with fr with a more careful test. but can't reliably reproduce yet.

using Android chrome beta.

Event Timeline

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald Transcript

If you can reproduce, please provide request ID headers, especially for the request that produced the error.

We have recently introduced a sessionJwt cookie (in October I think for normal sessions, in the last few days for bot password sessions) which can invalidate the session if it e.g. doesn't match the user ID. So one option is that something is going wrong with that.

Data point - earlier today I tried to log-in to outreach wiki and the initial log-in didn't work - the second log-in page I was given had a captcha. That time, when I entered the same u/p as well as the captcha, it worked.

Probably unrelated unless you saw the specific error message about cookies? Someone must have made a bunch of failed logins from your IP.

pmiazga added subscribers: matmarex, pmiazga.

@matmarex moving to needs refinement - can you try to reproduce this?