[Mailman-Users] Why does iOS's Safari log out the moderator web page?

Peter Shute pshute at nuw.org.au
Tue Feb 4 06:20:33 CET 2014


> On 4 Feb 2014, at 1:27 pm, "Mark Sapiro" <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/03/2014 05:53 PM, Peter Shute wrote:
>> 
>> That makes sense. Is there any way around it? Is it possible to make it use persistent cookies?
> 
> 
> If you're willing to modify the code, see the MakeCookie function in
> Mailman/SecurityManager.py.
> 
> You could replace the comment
> 
>        # We use session cookies, so don't set `expires' or `max-age' keys.
> 
> by something like
> 
>        c[key]['Max-Age'] = 3600 * 24 * 5
> 
> to give the cookie a lifetime of 5 days.

I don't have access to do that, and I think it's probably too difficult for me anyway. I was hoping it was a configuration option that I could ask the administrator to try. Maybe I'll just pray that iOS 7.1 fixes it.

Peter Shute


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