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rwbarton comments on "occasional logouts/user changes" (177)

rwbarton — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:43:21 -0800

I can now reproduce the bug quite reliably using the method I described here: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2465/random-logouts-and-user-changes/2589#2589

rwbarton comments on "occasional logouts/user changes" (175)

rwbarton — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:16:59 -0800

I visited that page many times, and got strange results on three occasions--"Anton Geraschenko", logged out, "Shake Baby"--but mostly "Reid Barton". Then I tried loading the page from another browser where I was *not* logged in, and got "Reid Barton"... I suspect somewhere the page is getting cached too aggressively, either on the server itself, or by a "transparent proxy".

Andrew Stacey comments on "occasional logouts/user changes" (167)

Andrew Stacey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:50:26 -0800

When I go to that page (or rather, when I go to this page since Markdown swallowed the comma on your link) then I'm "adrianpetrescu"!

I wonder if we can get a nice graph out of who "becomes" who on different pages ...

David Speyer comments on "occasional logouts/user changes" (163)

David Speyer — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:43:53 -0800

I think I have found a way to make this bug repeatable. Whenever I go to http://mathoverflow.net/jsMath, I find my name displayed as José Figueroa-O'Farrill. This occurs whether or not I am logged in, and survives clearing my cache. Going to anoter page undoes the effect.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "occasional logouts/user changes" (116)

Anton Geraschenko — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:15:50 -0800

I've had this problem too. I just filed a bug report at meta.SE.

rwbarton comments on "occasional logouts/user changes" (115)

rwbarton — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:08:28 -0800

Occasionally, I've been "logged out" from MO briefly for no reason I can see. I use quotes because although I get the "First time user?" orange bar at the top of the screen, as soon as I load any new page (such as by clicking on a question) everything is back to normal. Today something even stranger happened--my user information at the top of the screen changed to that of JS Milne! But again only a single page load was affected.

This doesn't seem to be causing any actual problems, but it is somewhat disconcerting...