https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/51079
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/51080

jgonera wrote:

"Not logged into Commons" situation should not ever happen in the first place. I'd rather fix it than change the code to accommodate to it.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/51815/

I can consistently replicate this on ios 6.1.2:

• Clear browser settings on iphone
• Using google search search for 'wiki'
• On wiki article click settings and opt into beta
• click donate image
• log in as jdlrobson 2013
• click return to Special:DonateImage

(uploads now fail)

Looking closer at debug console, the login to commons seems to fail. This only seems to effect the first login:

https
Host commons.wikimedia.org
Path /wiki/Special:AutoLogin
Query String token=xxxx
Filename Special:AutoLogin

Token: xxxxx

Request:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10B146 Safari/8536.25

Referrer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&action=submitlogin&type=login&returnto=Special:DonateImage

Response

Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:58:42 GMT
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from cp1012.eqiad.wmnet:3128, MISS from cp1003.eqiad.wmnet:80
X-Cache: MISS from cp1012.eqiad.wmnet, MISS from cp1003.eqiad.wmnet
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 825
Server: nginx/1.1.19
Content-Type: image/png

Cache-Control: private, s-maxage=0, max-age=0, must-revalidate

Set-Cookie: centralauth_User=Jdlrobson+2013; expires=Mon, 02-Sep-2013 01:58:42 GMT; path=/; domain=commons.wikimedia.org; secure; httponly, centralauth_Token=deleted; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT; path=/; domain=commons.wikimedia.org; secure; httponly, centralauth_Session=8b4b3615b38bxxxxc7549c2e47b43034; path=/; domain=commons.wikimedia.org; secure; httponly

Simplified steps to reproduce:

• In iPhone settings click clear history and clear cookies and data
• Go to https://en.m.wikipedia.org
• On wiki article click settings and opt into beta
• log in
• go to https://commons.wikimedia.org

Expected: you should be logged into commons but you are not...

Pretty sure I've worked this out. The iPhone has a default setting to not accept cookies from websites that haven't been visited.

Probably an upstream CentralAuth error but have added a workaround in the meantime..
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/52354

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/51080 (Gerrit Change Ie0d018de4bb8f86e2dec717a9ed4e1bd5b79119a) | change ABANDONED [by com.google.gerrit.server.events.AccountAttribute@8c05ca]

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/54813/1 should take care of this as an interim solution to sorting out bigger issues with CentralAuth.