Opened 18 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

Last modified 17 years ago

#1758 closed defect (worksforme)

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

Reported by: b-pennington@… Owned by: Adrian Holovaty
Component: contrib.admin Version: dev
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

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.

Change History (7)

comment:1 by Jacob, 18 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

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.

comment:2 by anonymous, 18 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: closedreopened
Version: magic-removal0.91

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.

comment:3 by Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@…>, 18 years ago

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).

comment:4 by Adrian Holovaty, 18 years ago

Resolution: worksforme
Status: reopenedclosed

Closing. See previous comment.

comment:5 by kaczmarek.krzysztof@…, 17 years ago

Version: 0.91SVN

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

comment:6 by anonymous, 17 years ago

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)

comment:7 by dazer017@…, 17 years ago

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.

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