[Search-l] Browser Test

[Balinny]

Mark (Markie) wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2008 10:51 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com 
> <mailto:jwales at wikia.com>> wrote:
>
>     Markus Petz wrote:
>     > At 10.02.2008 20:11, Balinny wrote:
>     >> There're two logins, one accesible from
>     >> http://alpha.search.wikia.com/login/login.html which logins you
>     into the
>     >> search itself, and the social part (friends, actions...) and
>     another one
>     >> at http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Userlogin which allows
>     you to
>     >> log into the search wiki. Both use the same password, but you
>     need to
>     >> log in twice. Yes, it's awkwards.
>     >> I summarised yesterday the bugs to fix, and sure enough that's
>     one to
>     >> clean out: http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Known_bugs#Unified_login
>     >
>     > A quick fix (within minutes) would be to make the links more
>     descriptive,
>     > "Log in to search" and "Log in to wiki". Though i can not see the
>     > difference. I guess i don't use this social part at all and
>     therefoer
>     > haven't seen it yet.
>
>     Hmm, both links are supposed to log you into both, without trouble at
>     all.  The key is a .wikia.com cookie.
>
>  
> this hasn't happened ever i dont think (at least for me) so this would 
> be a really nice fix :-)
It hasn't ever worked.

When i log in to the wiki i get the following cookies:
Name    wikicitiesUserID
Value    123456
Host    .wikia.com

Name    wikicitiesUserName
Value    Balinny
Host    .wikia.com

Name    wikicities_session
Value    00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff
Host    .wikia.com

Name    wikicitiesskinpref
Value    quartz-smoke-1
Host    .wikia.com

(log out, clear cookies)
If i log into the search i get:

Name    wikiaSearchToken
Value    ffeeddccbbaa99887766554433221100
Host    .wikia.com

Name    JSESSIONID
Value    01012323454567678989ABABCDCDEFEF
Host    alpha.search.wikia.com

It's obvious why you don't get logged in on both. Even while the cookies
are .wikia.com they use different cookies. Maybe the search engine doesn't
even have access to wikia's sessions, which make a bit hard the merging.