After registering with Mozilla Persona (BrowserID), page just keeps reloading

[Kevin Brubeck Unhammer]

How to reproduce:

• enable the persona plugin
• open ​http://localhost:6543, click Register and Register with Persona
• select an email from the Persona popup

Now we get redirected to ​http://localhost:6543/auth/persona/login/, and the email is pre-filled, but the username is empty, and the page keeps reloading every second, while the logs get filled with

2014-01-21 21:02:09,326 DEBUG [urllib3.connectionpool] "POST /verify HTTP/1.1" 200 131
2014-01-21 21:02:09,373 DEBUG [paste.httpserver.ThreadPool] Added task (0 tasks queued)
2014-01-21 21:02:11,187 DEBUG [mediagoblin.tools.routing] endpoint: mediagoblin.plugins.persona.login view_func: <function login at 0x7f08080690c8>
2014-01-21 21:02:11,190 INFO [urllib3.connectionpool] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): verifier.login.persona.org
2014-01-21 21:02:11,847 DEBUG [urllib3.connectionpool] "POST /verify HTTP/1.1" 200 131
2014-01-21 21:02:11,901 DEBUG [paste.httpserver.ThreadPool] Added task (0 tasks queued)
2014-01-21 21:02:11,905 DEBUG [paste.httpserver.ThreadPool] Added task (0 tasks queued)
2014-01-21 21:02:13,664 DEBUG [mediagoblin.tools.routing] endpoint: mediagoblin.plugins.persona.login view_func: <function login at 0x7f08080690c8>
2014-01-21 21:02:13,666 INFO [urllib3.connectionpool] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): verifier.login.persona.org
2014-01-21 21:02:14,344 DEBUG [urllib3.connectionpool] "POST /verify HTTP/1.1" 200 131
2014-01-21 21:02:16,436 DEBUG [mediagoblin.tools.routing] endpoint: mediagoblin.plugins.persona.login view_func: <function login at 0x7f08080690c8>
2014-01-21 21:02:16,437 INFO [urllib3.connectionpool] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): verifier.login.persona.org

[Kevin Brubeck Unhammer]

<strike>People on IRC said it might have to do with too strict permissions on user_dev/</strike> apparantly that's another issue

[ayleph]

Mozilla Persona has been decommissioned.