When logged in admin I got a 'user tampered with session cookie' exception.

[b-pennington@…]

I was logged into my admin continuously without using it for about an hour. When I finally got back to the admin panel I got a 'User Tampered With Session Cookie'. Clearing cookies fixed the problem.

[Jacob]

Without more details I can't reproduce this; there's quite a bit of stuff (proxies, IP changes, changes to your code...) that could have triggered the message.

[anonymous]

I got this when my sysadmin updated apache. Same thing happened on the admin page. The only change was apache. I had to fix it by getting rid of the checks in django, which is very very bad. I do not know what else to do.

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@…>]

In response to the last comment: did this happen repeatedly after the Apache upgrade? Even after clearing cookies in your browser? If so, that is a problem.

But if it just happened the once and then clearing cookies fixed it, that isn't a Django problem. It just means that something major like upgrading Apache might require logging in again. That isn't a common occurrence and not really worth working around (or even possible to do so).

[Adrian Holovaty]

Closing. See previous comment.

[kaczmarek.krzysztof@…]

I have the same problem. Clearing cookies doesn't fix this problem. What can I do?

[anonymous]

I can get this message by logging into the admin system then modifying the SECRET_KEY setting in settings.py.

Clearing the cookie definitely works in this case (using Firefox 2.0.0.1)

[dazer017@…]

I can reproduce this problem, although it seems not to be a django problem:

i use mod_python to run django in an apache web server. There is also php4 installed as module on the same server.

If i disable the php4 module, django works with mod_python. When the php module is enabled again, the same error persists.