[pmwiki-users] Possibly serious bug with passworded pages

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:50:41AM +1200, Robin wrote:
> This may be the result of an interaction with wikilog, but I just filled 
> in a wikilog entry on a read-write passworded page, and took long enough 
> to write it that the session expired. When I hit 'post', it asked me for 
> a password. Fortunately I got suspicious at that, hit back, copied the 
> text into the clipboard, and hit post again. When I entered the password, 
> the post I'd written had gone (and wasn't actually posted).
> 
> This might be something that needs to be dealt with: ideally if the 
> session has expired, the password page should store the operation, and 
> when the login was successful, it should replay the post (or some 
> equivalent operation) so that the data gets stored.

Which version of PmWiki are you running?  This particular problem
was supposedly fixed in 2.0.beta19.  (You're correct that it might be
an interaction with wikilog.)

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