Fwd: Help logging in to edit MDN wiki pages

[Janet Swisher]

Any clues?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Help logging in to edit MDN wiki pages
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 18:54:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dave S <dave.s...@gmail.com>
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Hello,

I have tried several times now to log in and edit the MDN wiki but
have been unable. It is quite frustrating. I am wondering if anyone
can tell me where I'm going wrong.

- I have created a BrowserID account, and can log in to https://browserid.org/
. If I visit https://developer.mozilla.org and sign in it also gives
me a popup window, as shown in the help docs. That window accepts my
BrowserID credentials and lets me sign in too.
- Once signed at developer.mozilla.org in I am taken to
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/users/browserid_register , where
it tells me "We couldn't find an MDN profile for your BrowserID. If
you're new here, you can pick a display name now and complete your
registration."
- I try to enter a display name and click 'Create a new profile', but
that takes me to an error page that says "Permission Denied". I will
paste the text at the bottom of this message [1].
- There are also 'Returning Members' and 'Forgotten your email?'
sections on the page, but trying either of those takes me to the same
error page.

I am using Firefox 11.0, but tried this a while back with v10 also.

Can anyone tell me what is going wrong? I just want to edit the MDN
wiki and help contribute.

Thanks,
Dave

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[1]"Permission Denied

We're sorry, we're afraid we can't do that.

Log in to try again.
Register to edit docs and submit demos.
View demos or browse docs

No computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are
all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable
of error. So it can only be attributable to human error. If so, file a
bug for my human operators."
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[Les Orchard]

On 4/2/12 5:04 PM, Janet Swisher wrote:
> Any clues?

Do we have any idea what username he tried to use?

That might be a red herring though: a duplicate username should have its
own error and not Permission Denied.

This sounds like a CSRF token error, most likely. Would be helpful to
know if either JavaScript or cookies are disabled.

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