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  1. Bug #2115
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Comment 0 for bug 2115

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote : POST request fails if user not authenicated (eg. launchpad restarted)

A page submit using a POST request fails with the message:

  Application error. Unauthenticated user POSTing to page that requires authentication.

if the user is not logged in. This can happen when somebody has been editing a page/form and Launchpad has been restarted in the mean-time. This leads to data loss, particularly if the /previous/ page was call generated by a POST and marked uncachable (meaning it's not even possible to go backwards and copy+paste the data elsewhere).

In the above situation, the user should be directed to login to Launchpad and then save the data after this has happened.