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Category Search Timeout - Invalid Input

Rakishdom 🚫

There seems to be a new timeout issue with viewing stories through the category search feature. I generally will do a category search then move through the stories, often leaving the browser open while I take a break, to come back and resume were I left off.

Recently, when I try to use the navigation buttons to go to the next page after taking a break, a dialog comes up stating "Invalid input. Please Start Over." This is rather inconvenient when I'm trying to scroll through a list of a couple hundred or even thousand stories. It would be nice if I could continue navigation after a break like I used to be able to.

Replies:   Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)
      
Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@Rakishdom

A security audit revealed several XSS vulnerabilities in our system. We've been working to close them.

The most secure thing that I could come up with is user-specific forms and links with an expiring identifier, which caused this 'invalid input' message when the identifier expired after six hours.

I've been contemplating the security requirement for a site like SOL and today came to the conclusion that an expiring identifier code is overkill.

So as of a couple of hours ago, I changed the code to have the identifier expire if you log out, and not on a timer. This serves having better security while not being totally annoying and it thwarts most of the attacks we're trying to mitigate.

      
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