Closed Bug 85371 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Bugzilla should state clearly that cookies are required

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

Sun
Solaris
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: david.butts, Assigned: justdave)

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Details

Initally, I rejected the cookies bugzilla.mozilla.org attempted to set, and no obvious errors were generated. As a first-time bugzilla user, I didn't know what to expect in terms of confirmation that a bug had been filed, or how long to wait for it to show up in a query before assuming it had failed and resubmitting it. Particularly given the disclaimer that bugzilla works (albeit less easily) w/ javascript disabled, the relative stealth of the apparent cookie-dependence seems misleading. Of course, now I know...
But cookies AREN'T required. They just significantly increase your functionality. If you have cookies turned off, you have to log in again any time you click something that requires you to be logged in. But it still works. it's just a pain in the *** to run it that way. Very deliberate steps were taken in many places in bugzilla to make sure that it would work without cookies. The only thing that you CAN'T do without cookies is use the Show List link to go back to your most recent buglist. But you can do that just as easily with the Back button in your browser.
Hm. It's entirely possible that it was DUE, but I had tried to submit a bug (which in a later incarnation, became 85370, FWTW). When I tried to commit it, it didn't give me the cheerful, affirmative sort of message I got after submitting 85370 w/ cookies on. What other factors, mixed with a lack of cookies, might conspire to prevent bug submission? Is there a polite way to submit dummy bugs? Would opening a spurious bug and then closing it myself be the Wrong Thing to do? In the greater scheme of things, it's probably not that big a deal, since my subsequent research got me reading more of TFM, and almost certainly led to a better bug report, but I am curious.
Yeah, feel free to open test bugs. Just make sure it says enough in the summary that we know it's a test bug, and make sure you put "invalid" for the reason code when you resolve it.
My bad, I've since managed to do all kinds of stuff w/out cookies. Must just be getting senile.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
v.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
moving to Bugzilla product reassign to default owner/qa for INVALID/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/DUPLICATE
Assignee: tara → justdave
Component: Bugzilla → Bugzilla-General
Product: Webtools → Bugzilla
Version: Bugzilla 2.12 → unspecified
QA Contact: matty_is_a_geek → default-qa
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