[Mailman-Developers] Mailman 500 error when some users access web pages.

[Marc MERLIN]

So, Sourceforge has been plagued by reports of users saying that they were
getting sporadic 500 errors when accessing mailman admin pages.

I think I just found one reason if not _the_ reason:
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> My Sourceforge.net Cookie was
> 
> .sourceforge.net      TRUE    /       FALSE   1000695393      username
> gQdb8WNeEUc%3D

Aaaaahhhhh, I think I get it.
sourceforge.net (the web site) gives you a .sourceforge.net cookie.
When  you  hit lists.sourceforge.net,  your  browser  sends the  cookie  and
mailman freaks  out because it can't  decode the cookie (it's  not a mailman
cookie, it's a SF cookie)

At least, that's my guess.
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Does that make sense?
(apparently, for whatever weird reason, it mostly happens with mozilla)

If so, is it easy to fix mailman to be more robust and ignore bad cookies?

Thanks,
Marc
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