Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-wiki (177 mails)

["Matthew Ehle" <mehle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Everyone,

I have rolled a fix for Bug 619735 to the production wiki.  I have provided 
details about the problem and solution there, but here's the short of it:

PHP requires session_start() to be called before any session data can be saved. 
 The javascript login only passes login information to iChain and never 
explicitly calls the MediaWiki login, where the session_start() function is 
called.  Thus, when using the javascript login, no session is started, and no 
session data is saved.  Editing a page also calls session_start(), which is why 
it starts working after trying it one time.

I added a session_start() call in the automatic iChain login script, and I have 
not been able to duplicate the problem on stage since.  As this appears to 
solve the problem, I have moved it out to the live wiki.  Please test it out 
and report any issues to me.  If I don't hear anything over the weekend, I'll 
close the bug out on Monday.

In addition to the fix, the latest deployment also contains the code for email 
validation.  It won't do anything until it is provided certain header 
information by iChain, which should be set up to do that on Monday morning.