Re: heads up: bitcoin glitches

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 05/28/14 13:20, Colin Percival wrote:
> 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.

This has now been tested, and bitcoin payments are working smoothly.

(Except if and when they don't.  But right now 99%+ of bitcoin payments should
work fine and I want to know about the other < 1% so I can process them manually
and fix any lingering issues.)

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