Implement mechanism to reduce number of one-shot sessions

[Markus Korn]

Authentication via
   bug.authentication = {"password": "mypassword", "email": "<email address hidden>"}
causes problems (one-shot sessions) in the production db of launchpad.

We could solve this issue on the py-lp-bugs side by dumping the resulting cookie object automatically to a file and try to use the resulting cookie file as often as possible.

Markus

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Is bug.authentication = {"password": "mypassword", "email": "<email address hidden>"} actually the problem?

As I understood it the problem is that lots of scripts don't use any form of authentication at all.

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

Ok, after some playing around with login+cookies in launchpad I think I finally understand how this all works.
Fixing this by having a 'default' cookie, actually one for each server (|edge|staging), looks easy but requires some fundamental changes to the code and to the way authentication works with python-launchpad-bugs.

So my question is: must we fix this bug before releasing py-lp-bugs 0.3?

Markus

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Kiko: what's your take on it?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This was merged into main revno 139 or so.