Re: heads up: bitcoin glitches

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 04/04/14 00:49, Colin Percival wrote:
> It looks like there have been a few cases recently where a bitcoin payment
> hasn't managed to "attach" itself properly to an account.  I think this is
> due to the propagation taking longer than the website javascript spends
> polling the Stripe payment backend but I'm not entirely certain about this.

It turns out that the problem here (at least, the most common problem here)
was that login sessions on the Tarsnap website were timing out before the
bitcoin-processing javascript issued the redirect back to the web interface.
I think I know how to fix this; is anyone here planning on making a payment
using bitcoin in the near future?

Ideally I'd like to have someone make two payments, one to confirm the bug
and a second after I've applied the fix to confirm that it works.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid