WandW opened this issue on May 16, 2012 · 372 posts
monkeycloud posted Sun, 20 May 2012 at 5:20 PM
Quote - > Quote - Hmmm. I just went to check to see if my last orders were sorted yet and downloadable and I got the issue with the wrong username remembered.
This is a session cookie id problem of some sort, I'd guess. It shouldn't represent a personal information security risk... I don't think... well actually, not sure about that.
Anyway...still can't download though. Its the M4 muscle morphs I'm waiting for... so I can start my Forum comp entry ;-)
This is correct about the logged in as a differnet username. As soon as you click on the name or cart or my account it asks you to log in, so no personal info is at risk. The cookie thing is what we are thinking is the issue.
Thanks - yeah, I guess I'd expect to see this sort of thing if either the server was reassigning the session ID extremely early (which seems unlikely) or if there was some sort of truncation of IDs occurring... as in the session id, which is quite possibly a long integer, somehow being in a range outwith the scope of a code statement somewhere that is truncating the long integer to a shorter data type (probably a string type)...
Some of the other issues I've seen would also make me suspect some kind of truncation of long data type numerical ids (e.g.) when they're parsed into a string data type...
...and I guess that this kind of problem would be consistent with an issue occuring post data migration, that somehow wasn't captured in test; e.g. if the initialization of an index key somewhere started out at a much higher value, post migration, than it ever got to in the test phase.
But that's all pure speculation on my part of course... sorry! Getting carried away there... LOL.
Hopefully we'll see the horse brought back into the paddock shortly ;-)