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icon1.gif   elogd complains about unknown cookies, posted by Konstantin Olchanski on Wed May 20 01:45:09 2015 
    icon2.gif   Re: elogd complains about unknown cookies, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri May 22 13:59:41 2015 
       icon2.gif   Re: elogd complains about unknown cookies, posted by Konstantin Olchanski on Sat May 23 02:49:22 2015 
Message ID: 67932     Entry time: Sat May 23 02:49:22 2015     In reply to: 67931
Icon: Reply  Author: Konstantin Olchanski  Author Email: olchansk@triumf.ca 
Category: Bug report  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 3.1.0 
Subject: Re: elogd complains about unknown cookies 
> > elogd is spewing these messages about unknown cookies:
> > 
> > Received unknown cookie "is_returning"
> > Received unknown cookie "__utma"
> > Received unknown cookie "__utmz"
> > Received unknown cookie "SSESSee3cc9c70bedf9a840203765bf409d7b"
> > Received unknown cookie "SESSee3cc9c70bedf9a840203765bf409d7b"
> > Received unknown cookie "MidasWikiUserID"
> > Received unknown cookie "MidasWikiUserName"
> > Received unknown cookie "MidasWiki_session"
> > 
> > K.O.
> 
> Delete your cookies ;-)
> 

No, go. The MidasWikiUserName cookie will log me out of the MidasWiki, etc.

But why are MidasWiki cookies sent to the elog? Ah, yes, they all run from the same https://midas.triumf.ca.

This explains why elog complains about unexpected cookies - elogd does not expect to receive
mediawiki cookies - it does not expect to share the https:// connection with somebody else.

This is good to know for the future. (I.e. if mediawiki is confused by elogd cookies).

K.O.
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