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Bug 590003 - Keeping the session up
Keeping the session up
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 670393
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Backend
2.27.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Xan Lopez
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-28 12:45 UTC by Maciej (Matthew) Piechotka
Modified: 2014-03-16 16:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description Maciej (Matthew) Piechotka 2009-07-28 12:45:01 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Epiphany based on webkit seems to not keepa session fo some reason

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to a hotspot with web-based authentication
2. Log in
3. Wait


Actual results:
The screen you have to keep open turns to be white after some time. Also after some time expiration of log-in happens. T

Expected results:
To keep the session

Does this happen every time?
Yes (on webkit - on xulrunner it was ok)

Other information:
Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2014-03-16 15:43:10 UTC 
You mean you want epiphany to inhibit screen lock when there's a captive portal? Why would you ever want that? It would be a security issue...

Anyhow, can this be reproduced with 3.12?
Comment 2 Maciej (Matthew) Piechotka 2014-03-16 16:35:48 UTC 
(Sight - my English was so bad I have troubles understanding what I meant)

No - I'm sure I didn't meant to inhibit lock screen (indeed - why would I ever wanted to do that). I had some troubles with using hotspots which required web-based authentication as after some time the session timed out on epiphany with webkit while on xulrunner it was still kept. I believe it might have been a problem with automatic refreshes (but after nearly 5 years I simply don't remember) which are required to use those hostspots.

I haven't used hotspot with such authentication mechanism for some time now.
Comment 3 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2014-03-16 16:40:24 UTC 
Ah, well I guess it should be considered part of the "deal with captive portals" ponies-on-rainbow idea then :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 670393 ***